January 22nd 1849
Edward and I walked to the clump of cottages called Fox Holes at Penkridge. where we passed an hour with poor people,
especially visiting six widows there, long standing recipients of Hiacinthe’s attention
into whose cases I enquired and whom I assisted.
4th November, 1849
Mrs Holland, my housekeeper and Mrs Shaw, the schoolmistress, with the Relieving Officer accompanied
me to the cottages called “Fox Holes”, so named
by the common people in consequence of their wretchedness.
We visited nearly all of the inmates and did something for most of them. I instructed the Relieving Officer to make me a list
of such of the poor as I might offer a little assistance to with propriety.
1851 Census
17 households recorded with 3 houses
uninhabited, 74 people. Virtually all the residents were agricultural labourers.
William Bannister
33 agricultural labourer
Mary Oakley
28 housekeeper
Sarah Oakley
7
Thomas Oakley
3
Elizabeth Hall
70 widow
William
19 a. l.
Richard Emery
43 widower, a. l.
John 15, Ann 13, Henry 10, Eliza 7.
James Beaman
64 a. l.
Sarah
47
William 18, Sarah 16, Mary 14, Abigail 12, Elizabeth 10, James 8, Jane 6, Harriet.
Mary Ward
77 widow
Harriet Rochel
40 widow
Thomas 12, Sarah 6
John Lewis
65 widower, a. l.
Ann
20
Elizabeth
18
James Oakley 22
a. l.
Elizabeth
33
William Ward
15 son
Joseph Ward
7 son
Fanny Oakley
5 daughter
Maria Pool
35 widow
Sarah
8
Sarah Barnes
43 lodger
Sarah Horton
57 widow
Mary
16
Samuel Lockley
2 nurse child
Sarah Dickens
41
William 15, Thomas 8, Edward 5, Emma 5, Hannah 11m.
William Lockley
32 widower, a. l.
John 10, Elizabeth 7
William Lewis
27 a. l.
Mary
36
John 16, William 14, Sarah 12, Emma 6, Randle 4, Henry 2, George 3m.
George Fisher
29 a. l.
Lucy 25
John 4, Samuel 2m
Manuel? Beard
30 a. l.
Charlotte
25
Eliza
3
Thomas Shenton
57 a. l.
Louisa
15, William 12, John 12, Joseph 10
Henry Hazlehurst
32 cordwainer ?
Ann
38
Charles 14, William 6m
