The following list of 61 families is taken from a small notebook kept to record those in receipt of parish relief between 1799 and 1801. The earliest entry is for May 1799 and the latest is April 1801. However the majority of the entries were made during 1799 and 1800.
Each entry includes some or all of the following information:-
- Name of the recipient
- If they had a wife
- Number of children and their ages
- Widows are referred to as “Widow” with no first name noted
- Age – if widowed
In addition to the above information each page records the type of relief the family received. The amount of relief each family received and for how long varies.
Examples of the type relief given are: clothes, shoes, wood, flour, corn, cash, and even hop poles.
This information has not been transcribed but is available for individual entries from the archivist via the “Contact Us” page.
Apps | Widow | aged 75 |
Axcell | John | 4 children |
Baker | Widow | aged 74 |
Ballard | Robert | wife and 7 children |
Barns | Widow | one son |
Bayley | William | wife and 3 sons |
Beale | Widow | aged 69 |
Bootes | Thomas | wife dead; 7 children |
Booth | William | wife and 4 children |
Bridger | Henry | wife and 6 children |
Campany | Mary | aged 63 |
Carter | William | wife and 5 children |
Carter | Richard | wife and 3 children |
Catt | Samuel | wife and 3 children |
Collins | John | wife and 5 children |
Cook | Widow | aged 70 |
Cook | Widow | child of; payment to Joseph Filmer |
Cook | Samuel | wife and 4 children |
Cooper | William | wife and 5 children |
Coppard | William | wife and 4 children |
Cover | Richard | |
Cramp | John | wife and 8 children |
Double | Sarah | |
Durrant | Widow | aged 76 |
Elliott | Henry | wife and 4 children |
Field | William | wife and 4 children |
Fielder | Solomon | aged 87 |
Fuller | Widow | aged 80 |
Gladwish | Edmund | wife and 5 children |
Glover | Widow | aged 89; dead |
Hicks | Thomas | wife and 4 children |
Hiscock | Widow | aged 73 |
Johnson | Widow | aged 64; dead |
Lavender | Thomas | wife and 4 children |
Manser | Thomas | 2 daughters, blind |
Milham | Thomas | wife and 6 children |
Munton | Henry | wife and 5 children |
Newble | John | wife and 5 children |
Packham | Robert | wife and 4 children |
Paine | John | wife and 4 children |
Pankhurst | Thomas | aged 68 and wife aged 64 |
Playford | William | wife and 4 children |
Poile | Henry | wife and 3 children |
Ranger | Thomas | wife and 7 children |
Rootes | William | wife and 3 children |
Sargant | Thomas | wife and 5 children |
Sheather | William | wife and 3 children |
Stace | James | wife and 6 children |
Stone | Robert | aged 90 |
Taylor | Samuel | wife and 5 children |
Thompson | William | aged 65 |
Tree, junior | William | wife and 3 children |
Tree, senior | William | |
Wenham | John | wife and 6 children |
Wenham | Widow | and daughter |
Wicken | Richard | and son |
Wilden | William | wife and 3 children |
Wood | Widow | aged 66 |
Worsley | James | wife and 3 children |
Wratten | John | wife and 4 children |
Wybourn | Mark | wife and 5 children |