Fox Holes, Penkridge

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Lord Hatherton visits the Fox Holes, a few days after the death of Hiacinthe, Lady Hatherton.

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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

 

 

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