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Historic Buildings of Essex ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Dorset, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up. Image right - Hedingham Castle in the vil...
Ash Workhouse, Surrey, England=Up to 1834The parishes of Ash and Normandy, Long Sutton, Puttenham, and Seale and Tongham were incorporated under Gilbert's Act of 1782 which allowed groups of parishes jointly to administer poor relief and to set up workhouses for the elderly and infirm and children. The agreement to form the Union was formally registered on 19th April, 1806. A workhouse was subs...
The Poor are farmed in a Workhouse, built in 1791, on a good plan and stands in an excellent situation about half a mile from the town. The old Workhouse stood in the town and is said to have been a most wretched one. The contractor is allowed the use of the house and furniture, and the earnings of the Poor, and receives £1,000 a year for which he is bound to maintain the Poor of every descript...
Workhouse "Spike"= The Project: This is an umbrella project for all workhouses and as such should not have profiles assigned to it unless perhaps the town of the workhouse a person was in is unknown. To find the appropriate sub-project go to the "Historic Buildings of ...." project for the appropriate county where there should be a sub-heading of "Workhouse (Poor House) "Spike"" There is a lot ...