Search
A History of the County of Gloucester
… provided yarn and spinning-wheels to employ the women and children in the workhouse, and a committee was set up to … some of the parishioners had set up a school to teach poor children reading, writing, religion, and accounts. 389 In … presumably financed by the parents, was attended by c. 20 children of farmers and tradesmen. A few children attended …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… here in the 9th year of Edward II. and left several children; on the partition of whose inheritance, made anno 14 … her will) to be applied to the putting out apprentices the children of the poor inhabitants of that parish, and the … poor, 30l. the interest of it to be applied to put poor children of the parish to school; and John Smith, esq, of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… In this chancel was lately a school for teaching poor children to read and write; but it has been some time …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 30 s. rent in Preston Candover, 53 their heirs being their children, John, William, Robert, and Elizabeth, 54 from one …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Alscot manor among others on himself, his wife, and their children. 107 The manor that he settled was in fact not … school in the parish was a dame school attended by c. 10 children. 293 Anne, wife of James Roberts West (d. 1838), started a Sunday school in 1821; it had 52 children in 1833. 294 In 1846 there was a day and Sunday …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… determined to be an annual sum of 36 for schooling certain children of the said parishes, and an annual sum of 1 1 s. 8 d. for books for such children leaving school. The yearly sum of 12 is payable …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… John Newlyn, died at Goleigh in 1646, leaving, among other children, two sons, John and Philip. 15 The elder died … to have occupied Goleigh Farm, though three of Philip's children were buried in Priors Dean Church. 17 Winchester … Compton, who died in 1631, aged twenty-one, leaving two children out of four to survive her, and close to it is that …
A History of the County of Bedford
… No. 15. This Simon Fitz was probably one of the natural children of Henry VIII. Ibid. vol. 73, No. 5. Com. Pleas D. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… to Wolley Leigh. 23 Francis Leigh having died without children in 1637, 24 Wolley should have succeeded to all the … one Quaker, no gentleman, 'nor any school but what teaches children to read and write.' 86a CHARITIES The charities are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Shepheard's entreaty he wrote down the names of the Stonor children in the register at the time when they were … congregations averaged about 100. The early age at which children left school and were put in charge of cattle feeding … parish was a difficult one. The vicar complained that the children of people in Assendon, 7 miles distant from the …