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The Environs of London
… Foot's Cray FOOT's CRAY. Name. This place takes its name from the river Cray, … Situation. Boundaries, extent, &c. Soil. Land-tax. Foot's Cray lies in the hundred of Ruxley, at the distance of 12 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north-east of Cambridge, covered 4,204 a. until Landwade's 127 a. were incorporated in 1953, thereafter 1,753 ha. … by 1887, and was still active in the 1890s. 56 A village institute founded in 1884, with 180 members, held its … and sexes, included, besides a horticultural society, 61 a Women's Institute started c. 1923, 62 a British Legion …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… street. They were usually inhabited from the 1860s by women over sixty. 42 Still in use in the early 20th century, … 1930s. Only one was occupied in 1939 and two, by very old women, in 1959, when the rest of the brick, slated, mostly … vicar Stephen Hall (d. 1661), and his successor Hugh Floyd's daughter Jane (d. 1666: £10 for twelve poor widows), as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… As 'Fordham rectory', the rectorial estate once the prior's was in the late 16th century held by Crown lessees, usually … worshipping anywhere. 23 In 1897, when there were a church institute and a choir of 30, his successor, who gave only two … in 1974. 27 When an Anglo-Catholic vicar, who opposed women's ordination, resigned in 1995, he was rapidly replaced …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small freehold estate showed a slight decline from 10 s. to 6 s. 8 d. 27 Fordham's total tax was near the median … killer. By 1891 five men were railway labourers. The few women in paid work in 1851 were mostly servants, but there … a tail- oress, and a schoolmistress. By 1891 twenty- three women worked as tailoresses, presumably for Colchester …
A History of the County of Essex
… The ford was probably that at Fordstreet, called Fordham's ford in 1580, half in Fordham and half in Aldham, where the … Symons Green may have been connected with William Symonds's land, recorded in 1569. 56 There were two small … both at Fordham and at Eight Ash Green included women's, elderly persons', and pre-school groups, political …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Hereford, held the Forest during the wars of Stephen's reign. A grant made by Miles was addressed to all his … Forest and St. Briavels castle to Henry II. 94 At Henry II's accession the area under forest law probably comprised the … Briavels castle on five occasions and for whom the castle's royal apartments were probably constructed, appears to have …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… There is little direct documentary evidence of Dean's mining industry before the mid 13th century. The rich … noted employing over 442 miners, including many boys and 6 women; the bulk of the mines were in Parkend and Ruardean … 13. Female labour was not used at the larger mines 99 but women hoisted coal and loaded it on carts and mules at the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the 1670s and the following decades a few people, mostly women, received financial help from the county stock, which … paid apprenticeship and funeral expenses. 97 Seven women, one of them a foster mother, received regular help in 1726 98 and a child abandoned at St. White's was reared at the county's expense from 1768. 99 Because …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… from a dissenting chapel just outside the Forest at Brain's Green, in Awre parish. 20 His congregations included the … under construction from 1872, was in use. 37 The church's fortunes in the late 19th century mirrored those of the … and young adults. 47 The church, which in 1907 opened an institute in Belle Vue Road 48 and at the end of the First …