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A History of the County of Essex
… of 14 rooms for a schoolmaster, 8 poor men, and 5 poor women. 300 The building was completed before his death. By … of alms-people was varied to not less than 4 men and 4 women. The alms-house building is a long two-storeyed brick … the balance to provide pensions of 5 a year for the alms-women. John Conyers gave the land on which the houses were …
A History of the County of Essex
… and boys to garden, pick oakum, and spin hemp or flax; the women and girls to do the domestic work, and spin flax for … men were sent to work in West Ham workhouse 54 and the women and children were given materials to knit and sew. In … 1747 to 1753 the number of inmates averaged 31, mainly women and children; men below 60 were rare unless sick or …
A History of the County of Essex
… church in 1894, and from c. 1899 to the 1920s ran a Women's Social Work home at the Clock House, Whipps Cross. …
A History of the County of Essex
… public subscription to provide maternity benefits for poor women. 33 The trust fund, which in 1865 totalled 166, was … gave 1,000 in trust for gifts at Christmas to 25 poor women, aged over 60 years and communicants of the Church of …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1921 by the convent of the Good Shepherd, as a refuge for women and girls, 134 and later became Wanstead hospital. 135 …
A History of the County of Essex
… able-bodied men were being employed; 33 infirm men and 6 women were being employed part-time; 14 totally disabled men and 28 women were receiving relief. The parish was also supporting …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… 20th century it had branches of the Mothers' Union and Women's Institute (formed in 1925), scouting and other youth …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… endowed with a rent-charge of 12, an almshouse for four women, at Kirkthorpe; and there is another house at the same …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a number of great coats and cloaks for poor old men and women. In 1833 £3 a year from another charity she founded for … was founded in 1800 to lend clothes and linen to lying-in women, and to give the infants that lived an adequate set of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… then obtained the support of a company of factious men and women in the town, who hoped to have him admitted in spite of …