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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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by John Westend in 1451, are occupied by sixteen men and women, who receive a small allowance of fuel; and at …
A History of the County of Essex
… the number of beneficiaries increased until 1867 when 51 women and 17 men each received an average of 3 yd. of … trustees land in Rebow Road for six almshouses for single women or widows, preferably sailors' widows. She en- dowed … eight widows; by 1836 the beneficiaries included unmarried women. The charge may have been paid in 1863 but appears to …