Hello Listers I used to regularly consult the overseers of the poor records for Oldland parish when down at Bristol Record Office. You can gain much knowledge from the accounts, including vestry minutes, and I've found some of my own ancestors listed as receiving parish relief, taking on apprentices, making people work on the roads, helping one family whose son was disabled and unable to work, etc, etc. Sometimes they appeared very harsh on the people applying for poor relief and other times very sympathetic. You can see how much they paid out to each individual and for how long. There are even a few details of settlement papers where parishioners of other parishes were sent back to their own parish if they did not have legal settlement in Oldland. There were also settlement papers received from other parishes returning Oldland parishioners to Oldland. I am pretty sure that these days you can find indexes to these records on A2A or The National Archives. I can't say that I noticed any female names in the elections for Overseers of The Poor in the Oldland records or among the signatories. Bernice