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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Introduction WOOLASTON WOOLASTON is a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and … before 1863 and surviving until c. 1908. 97 A Friendly Society was registered in 1834 and an Independent Benevolent Society in 1844. 98 The parish was given a cottage in 1908 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 Although in 1682 the names of 68 persons who did not attend church were given, only the … only ten and two persons respectively were named, some of whom were Quakers. 78 Nevertheless the Roman Catholic community showed …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … SOCIAL LIFE The Polden Hill and Woolavington Friendly Society, founded 1854, and in the early 20th century the Rational Sick and Benefit Society, met at the White Lion. 13 A village hall opened in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; containing 71 … and importance of his apprehensions, retired with their friends and all whom they could persuade to accompany them, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … library is attached, in 1815; there is also a society for the encouragement and improvement of native … There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/43 (1619) To the right … to take some order that the peticioners husbandes friends maie either keepe and maineteine or give allowance …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To the right worshipfull Sir [illegible] knight lord of the manour of [Fladbury?] [illegible] Whereas the berer hereof Katherine …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1670s Inhabitants of Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions … would willingly accept of 6 pound, but [illegible] all the friends he hath can or will pay it, during his time of his …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your …