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STOP PRESS:
Available 19th May 2007:
AT THE OVERSEER’S DOOR.
The story of Suffolk’s parish workhouses.
R.R.P £9.95. plus p & p. £2.00
This is a gloss laminated silk board cover, with 104 pages with maps, sketches and drawings throughout, and a full references and sources listings in the back, together with a listings in the back of the 170 known examples throughout the county. with maps inside front and rear covers.
The volume is divided into nine chapters;
Chapter headings include: An Overview of the Poor Law in the 16th to 19th centuries; Acquisition, Equipment & Maintenance, Management, Employment, Inmates & Conditions and Inmates tales.
Chapter nine identifies the 170 parish workhouses in Suffolk.
There is a section on the references and sources used throughout the volume.
Payment by cheque made out to Ray Whitehand, with order
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FROM POTASH TO PEAR TREES
A chronicle of 2 Potash Cottages Pettistree.
Formerly a labourers cottage, and home of the author’s family from 1946 to 1988. the volume takes you back to the origins of the cottage in the mid 18th century. There is a brief explanation of the 18th century industry of potash manufacturing, after which the cottages were named. The volume then details the evolvement of the property and its owners throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before bringing things right up to date with living memories of life in the village in the second half of the twentieth century.
Throughout the study the sources from which all information was gleaned is identified, which makes this a valuable read for anyone with interests in Pettistree or those thinking about researching their own home.
Priced at £7.95 plus postage, can be purchased from Wickham Market Post Office or from the editor
Other publishings by the same author include the following transcriptions of the original documents:
These are all home produced A4 size with ring binder and laminated covers:
Pettistree: The Early Census
covers the 1821, 1831 and 1841 census for the village
Pettistree: The Mid Victorian Census
covers the 1851, 1861 and 1871 years
Pettistree: The Final Victorian Census
covers the 1881, 1891 and 1901 census
These are priced @ £5.95 plus postage
Included in each volume is a brief résumé of one of the village’s features plus photos of the village in the author’s time there.
The 1842 Tithe map and apportionment:
Here the tithe map has been broken into 15 x ½ page sections of the original map, followed by a full transcription of the Tithe apportionment, with an additional section which identifies 21st century addresses of the properties.
This is priced at £8.95 plus postage
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