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A History of the County of Oxford
… figures in 1327 were 38 and 31. 76 In 1377 106 men and women over 14 paid poll tax in Brize Norton, presumably … including any resident at Astrop, and another 10 men and women were recorded separately for Marsh and Lower Haddon. 77 … including a Mothers' Union branch and society for young women. 201 A branch of the Women's Institute was founded soon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Day. A new choir was founded in 1979, which soon included women and girls, and compline was held on Fridays in Lent … were also listed in the latter year. 158 In 16056 only two women who had recently lived in Brize Norton were recorded as … and their priest, two labourers' families, and three other women. 168 It was short-lived: after the Greenwood family's …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1853-1905, 70 also lived at Broadwater, 71 where men and women still sat separately in church in 1854. 72 In the 1850s …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 11 and it remained a social focus in the 1590s when local women gathered there to gossip about their neighbours. 12 7. … there were 27 villein households, six of them headed by women (probably widows); of those, 20 occupied a yardland … out of a population of well over 200, with fewer men than women, though in the 1880s the number of communicants rose …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… smiths, and by 1847 there was a machine maker, while many women worked as dressmakers and needlewomen. Charles Smith of … including subtenants of the above, and four were headed by women, probably widows. Land tenure was complex, with five … Rouses Lane, where the constable confined the drunk and disorderly, is said to have remained in use until around …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… for Col. Heyworth-Savage at Bradwell Grove, while some women from the village (including James's wife) were employed …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… and in 1871 one was a laundress. Several other women were domestic servants, working mostly in the … First World War saw an increase in agricultural work by women, in which R. W. Hobbs played a central role. At his … day was held at Kelmscott in June 1916 to show women engaged in a variety of farm work, including ploughing, …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Richard Brooke at Grove House provided work for 20 men, women, and boys. 21 Throughout the 19th and early 20th … on local farms, the men earning 1 s. 4 d. daily and the women 8 d. 1 In 1835, when Bromesberrow joined the Newent …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… number of the poorer class of the inhabitants, men, women, and children. Many other trades have also been …