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A History of the County of Oxford
… 20 By 1851 John Early employed 144 people, 28 of them children and 16 of them women. 21 Smaller firms continued to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jones left 10 for its 'repair and amending' so that 'children may there be taught', implying that it was then out … instruction in literacy and numeracy. 8 In the 1740s children in the parish workhouse were expected to be taught … alongside the foundation scholars; 10 nevertheless, many children before the early 19th century presumably had no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Mills, with another eight two years later, local children being invited to plant lime trees to help encourage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1795. 43 Sometimes division followed from bequests to children, as when William Pope, gardener, left his house to … warehousing must always have been a problem, although with children gone (as is often implied by there being so few … 1889 the UDC surveyor reported a man and his wife with six children, aged between fifteen years and six months, living …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it housed 115 people and in 181315 around 80 excluding children. 194 The Mid 18 th to Early 19 th Century As … In 18023, when expenditure had fallen, some 240 adults and children, 9 per cent of the population, received permanent … In 1805 three inhabitants were prosecuted for 'rescuing' children from the churchwardens and overseers, who were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 60 people, besides instigating weekly catechizing for children and, in 1761, establishing a chapel of ease at … wives Christian (d. 1501) and Anne (d. c. 1538), and their children, 169 while later family memorials included the large …
A History of the County of Oxford
… circumstances of the . . . town', was to be open to 'poor children of all sects and denominations'. 21 Thenceforth … school, which had been founded about 1825 and had 160 children. 50 Friendly relations with other sects were … of life', with an adult school attended by over sixty, a children's school outgrowing its accommodation, and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… lands now producing 12 per annum for the instruction of children; and a national school is supported by subscription. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… as a more healthy and advantageous occupation for the children of the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and shield; (3) of man in armour and wife, groups of children, four shields and inscription-plate, late …