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A History of the County of Oxford
… family, built a row of almshouses at Newland for six women inmates in 1827, besides financing a new … case on its merits; though preference was given to Witney women they considered applications from Oxford and elsewhere … in bread and beef on Christmas Day to 40 poor men and women named by the town feoffees; with 10 s. for a sermon in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… prompted a strike at Smith and Philips's in 1970, when women workers claimed loss of earnings caused by introduction … people from the Witney area, including several hundred women engaged in both clerical and production work. Many … 350; Looker's glove factory employed 30 cutters and 100 women outworkers, and the West London Optical and Tool …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reckoned that one pack (240 lbs.) would employ up to 35 women and girls a week in carding and spinning, with others … seems never to have included more than half a dozen women at any one time. 122 The number of wage-earning … and other fabrics, with cotton and velvet caps, gloves and women's mittens (including women's kid gloves), ribbons, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over 5 per cent. Fourteen per cent, mostly but not all women, were domestic servants in private houses or inns, and comparable numbers of women supplemented family income as dress- or bonnet-makers, … employed 144 people, 28 of them children and 16 of them women. 21 Smaller firms continued to be taken over: Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over a thousand in 1937, when most of the 400 weavers were women, many of them from outside the town. 5 By then Witney … presumably other firms, together with special rates for women undertaking men's jobs, who received half the standard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… twelve weekly boys at 5 s. a quarter, and girls or 'young women that may be willing to improve their learning'; the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… doing so in 1595, as was Anne Pettie, one of the richest women in the town, in 1622. 70 It is not clear why appraisers … expense of William Townsend (d. 1832), to house six poor women. They provided a single upstairs room with a living … and laundry. The plan allowed for segregation of men and women as stipulated by the Commissioners. 233 In 1861 a new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 159 Inmates, chiefly vagrants, petty criminals, and 'lewd women', seldom numbered more than four or five, and came from … included a few paupers until 1832, and both men and women until 1854, though by then the asylum catered chiefly for middleclass women. Conditions were generally thought good by contemporary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boosted by Americans from Brize Norton airbase. Women deacons were nominated by the 1940s, and in 1969 a … the Briscoe family of Alvescot and Lew. Separate men's and women's meetings were held throughout. 83 During the earlier … until the 1780s. 85 'Ministers' included both men and women, among them Hannah Smith (d. 1817), active at Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1767 ten out of twelve recusants recorded in Witney were women, including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and …