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A History of the County of Essex
… employed in dressmaking and 65 in tailoring, many of them women doing outwork for Col- chester clothing firms. … 34 Colchester Manu- facturing Co. Ltd. employed c. 25 women making clothing from 1935 until c. 1946 at its factory …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxon. (1853). Wilb. Visit. 166; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. [4202-1], p. 334, H.C. (1868-9), xiii; … 114, pp. 344-5 (1867-8), liii; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. p. 334. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 344, f. 453; … Dioc. c 335, f. 438; c 344, f. 453; Rep. Com. Children and Women in Agric, p. 334. O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Wolvercote, b …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of thirteen unmarried men, with another house for three women to attend them as nurses; they were endowed with an …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 36 Two seamstresses were recorded in 1879 37 and women of the parish were also employed in the convent …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the buildings were extended to provide a work-room for the women of the neighbourhood 1 who, with equipment supplied by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Of 91 Woodditton women married in the parish church between 1753 and 1781, for …
A History of the County of Essex
… is available, 139 some organizations, such as the Women's Institute, being particularly strong. 140 Many of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 … appartments, usually, by the 1870s, occupied by single women. 84 The corporation sold the almshouses in the early … Spencer provided weekly doles of bread for 10 men, 10 women, and 20 children, with an additional gift at Christmas; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the later 18th century. In 1768 only 4050 men and women, earning 8 s.9 s. a week, were said to be employed in … cutting leather, and the gloves were sewn by 1, 4001,500 women, mostly out-workers in surrounding villages, earning 8 … was reduced to nine, employing 120150 men and over 1,000 women. The principal glovemaster, Richard Taylor (d. 1841), …