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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… foundation. Eight almshouses, for four aged men and four women, were founded in 1668, and endowed with land by Bishop …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… section (Durley). W.R.O. 9/1/110. Rep. Com. Children and Women in Agric. [4202-I], p. 242, H.C. (1868-9), xiii. …
Survey of London
… arcade then seems to have provided at least as much for women's as for men's fashions, and was as notably the place …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… established: an institution for the relief of poor married women in childbirth was commenced in 1819; and there is a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1841 there was an extensive domestic industry, employing women and children as well as men. It was concentrated around … Woodhouses on Sunday evening for the purpose of detecting disorderly people that frequent that quarter'. 380 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… constables was instituted 'to keep a watch over the disorderly people particularly those assembled at the … 1778; W.S.L., Staffs. Views, ii, p. 159 ( c), woodcut of women waiting at the spring for water to rise. Warrillow, …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… in the church or churchyard and registering 1s., except women that die in childbed and children not baptized for whom … is due. For registering of baptisms and churching of women 4d. each. Persons living within the Chappelry of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… there are some others, founded in 1591 for five unmarried women, and endowed by Dame Elizabeth Pawlett, the present …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and early 18th centuries and included two almshouses for women. Unendowed irregular or annual charity also became a … and Protection of Young Girls, intended to assist young women arriving in the town in search of work, opened a … Street by 1923. 5 The home supported between 20 and 30 women each year during the 1960s but was closed in 1969. 6 …