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A History of the County of Oxford
… were complaints, perhaps exaggerated, that the town was poor, dependent entirely on markets and fairs, and lacking 'any manufacture to maintain it and the poor'. 99 On the basis of hearth tax returns Woodstock, while … constituency until 1885. It became the centre of a poor law union in 1834. During the 19th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 100, of which 20 was for the school and the rest for the poor and for disabled soldiers. 28 A confirmation of the … government, particularly as guardians of the Woodstock poor law union. 51 Such men argued that the corporation was … concerns, others were supervised by the vestry or the poor law guardians. 52 In 1866 a group of ratepayers led by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, 'poor and drunk'. 71 Costs grew with the size of the … paving the streets, 73 and in 1731 the duchess clothed 80 poor townspeople. 74 Despite all efforts the Marlborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ch. Mag. (1863), 329; above, Local Govt., Par. Govt. and Poor Relief; below, Educ. Oxf. Chron. 31 May 1851; 25 Apr., 8 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street), owned by Mary, Lady Terry, and served by Jesuit priests from Heythrop College. In 1934 the church of St. Hugh … thereafter the Servites of Begbroke provided the parish priests. In 1985 the parish was taken over by the archdiocese …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made … c. 1818 and replaced by a range of five dwellings for five poor widows, 20 which became disused in the later 19th … 22 A sum of 4 d. was distributed for the relief of the poor c. 1547 from land left for obits. 23 Richard and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at the same time that the 14th century moulding of the priests' door in the south wall of the chancel was removed to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of … the vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid … Char. 113. Church School Inquiry, 1846-7, 18-19. Educ. of Poor Digest, 317. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. cxxxvii. Educ. Enquiry …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… number doubled. 84 In the early 19th century the cost of poor-relief rose from £249 in 1803 85 to between £300 and … was built. 88 About 1836 Woolaston became part of Chepstow Poor Law Union, 89 but for other local government purposes it … MS. 2601/2. Glos. R.O., D 1430B/23. Overseers' acct. bk. Poor Law Abstract, 1804, 184-5. Poor Law Abstract, 1818, …