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A calculation of the different number of inmates housed and the proportions of each domination. Good study and preparation to expand how different church following was tolerated.
Again presented in graph format – pie chart with numbers of each religion.
A calculation of the different number of inmates housed and the proportions of each domination. Good study and preparation to expand how different church following was tolerated.
Again presented in graph format – pie chart with numbers of each religion
This project is a focus of the life of children in the middle of the 1800’s. It is a focus is the life of the young, how they were treated in the workhouse and within the working environment. It’s not an easy read as it quotes extensively the experiences of life by many children from as early as 6/7 as they had to go out to work in support of their family. Illustrated with photographs of the time and a worthy read to place life at that time into context and how children were treated in so many ways. Breadwinners, because of the system of wages being paid in the street corner pub, were encouraged by the landlord to have more to drink as he claimed he had not enough change to pay them from a £5 note from the foreman who held the pay for all under him. Many wives, along with their children, would stand outside imploring their husbands to come out before all their wages were spent. But would often return home with a drunken spouse in the certain knowledge they would be evicted the following week as there was no money for the rent or food. For many families the breadwinner would just walk out, leaving his wife and children to the mercies of the Poor Law system, or to survive on just a few pence from the relieving officer. For others, because of industrial disease, many mothers were left widowed at an early age. Against this background of need and lack of sustenance, there was also a lack of education except that offered by Sunday schools.
Breadwinners, because of the system of wages being paid in the street corner pub, were encouraged by the landlord to have more to drink as he claimed he had not enough change to pay them from a £5 note from the foreman who held the pay for all under him. Many wives, along with their children, would stand outside imploring their husbands to come out before all their wages were spent. But would often return home with a drunken spouse in the certain knowledge they would be evicted the following week as there was no money for the rent or food. For many families the breadwinner would just walk out, leaving his wife and children to the mercies of the Poor Law system, or to survive on just a few pence from the relieving officer. For others, because of industrial disease, many mothers were left widowed at an early age. Against this background of need and lack of sustenance, there was also a lack of education except that offered by Sunday schools.
3 x A4 pages
This is a major study of how children were treated in the workhouse and includes all aspects of their daily routine and life. From education, religious worship, discipline, occupational training and the preparation of trades of playing a musical instrument following workhouse life. Again, this is a huge contribution to the social history of the time and based entirely upon factual research.
There are thirty-nine A4 pages and over 18,000 words.
Poor Law Lunes were collected by the parish and charged to every property within the parish. This is the only copy to have survived for the district of Stoke West. It’s a comprehensive list of all property owners, tenants, property description, factory, house etc. and charge made. This was done to offset the cost of maintaining the poor. It covers the area of Penkhull and Boothen, Clayton, Seabridge, Hanley and Shelton.
The whole process of the collection of Church Lunes is explained and its purpose and how the system operated. The results are fully tabulated, and summaries given. Its uses to social and economic history of the area are invaluable. The contents would make an ideal project for educational purposes and projects.
This book has been transcribed and contains every entry of the original work. Packed full of detail and statistics of every home on the west side of the River Trent. Perfect for a college or university study.
PDF 103 pages
Under the Poor Law of 1834 there were no benefits it was simply if you had no money, no home, no job you would apply to be admitted into a workhouse. The objective was to enforce the worst conditions they could in the hope that those desperate would do anything to remain out of the workhouse. Here families were separated by gender and a minimum age necessary for the maintenance of ‘decency’ whereby children were segregated from adults in order to dissuade them from a life of indolence and mendicancy and kept from what was considered ‘sluggish sensual indolence’.
Vagrants or casuals were travellers from town to town, perhaps we could call tramps. The 1834 Act was designed to stem the drain of resources as a deterrent, but vagrants dominated the flow of poor inmates. In 1837 workhouses became obliged to provide temporary overnight shelter for any destitute person, forcing guardians to arrange special accommodation for this category. Initially, vagrants were housed in infectious wards, stables and outhouses anywhere until purpose built vagrant wards were built at the edge of the main workhouse site, frequently having its own access from the highway to avoid contamination with other inmates.
Vagrants would arrive late in the afternoon waiting for admission and their personal belongings removed. The number of beds available for vagrants was frequently limited and late-comers found themselves turned away. In better-regulated wards, they were stripped, bathed and their clothes disinfected, and a bread and water supper were served.
This was the way in which people were treated if they became a burden upon the parish and in turn taxed the local residents based upon the value of their home. Many think the of survival today with increasing costs everywhere, but in reality, nearly two hundred years ago life then was beyond imagination. Read more about times then for those who had nothing except the clothes they stood up in. Yes, the poor law did make some difference to those who came knocking but inside you were treated less than human.
A multiple page document listing both the admittances and discharges of inmates.
This is presented in the form of spreadsheets and the years 1832-34 are the only ones to have survived. They are unique in as much they give a complete uncomplicated picture of admittance and discharge. Upon admission full names are given and their occupation together with the important statistic – that of religion. There are a number of comments made in the last collum. The discharge books are however more surprising as both the basic information is given which is followed frequently with comments as to why. A further feature the status is give if legitimate or not and other comments. The list is endless and at times amusing. They come in two formats, listed in the original date order which with the aid of Excel can be listed in surname, age religion etc. A great asset in the study of social, occupational and family research, or like me a great subject area. All transcribed from the original documents.
Each sdocument contains 31 pages of Excel format each
Few if any historians have approached this subject on the basis that few workhouses had little provision for the sick. At Stoke upon Trent workhouse as early as 1842 provision was made both for inmates but also for the parish community outside as no other facility had yet been provided. The Stoke upon Trent Hospital was erected in a central position with the workhouse and the building still remains as listed by English Heritage.
The study starts from the first thoughts of providing this facility, the number and descriptions of rooms and wards. Focus is made on one report that has survived and stored in the National Archives. It’s a complaint by someone in the community who wrote to the poor law in London to complain how he had been treated. Mention was made of his time in a lunatic ward, having to share a double bed with five other sick inmates – the list is endless and would make good reading for all who are keen to learn of the early years of medicine and the treatment of patients in workhouses.
two x A4 pages
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