Reference
HW91/7
Title
Letter: Richard How II (Aspley) to J. Howlett. Gives poor accounts from 1732 to 1788 Survey of population of Aspley Guise.
Date free text
8 Jan. 1789
Production date
From: 1789 To: 1789
Scope and Content
Husbands 65
Widowers 13
Boys 62
Single men 7
Male servants
Men & Boys 35
TOTAL MALES 182
Wives 68
Widows 17
Girls 103
Single women 22
Female
servants 29
TOTAL FEMALES 239
Scholars 120
Total population 541
In 1762 about 36 subsisted by labour
In 1789 about 40 subsisted by labour
About 30 girls & 26 boys attend Sunday School. Women generally employed in making lace, to which the girls are brought up; few go out to service; tho’ their earnings are much less, perhaps 1/3 or nearly ½, than 30 or 40 years ago, their work not being so well paid. The school is in a very flourishing state, there being sometimes it's said above 130 scholars, including men & boys from France & Flanders (& Germany) who come to learn English. Houses, cottages & tenements were in 1782 reckon’d to be 87, to which 2 may be added erected since......and the manor house empty, part pulled down.
Abuses in administration of the Poor Law, & cost of law suits.
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