Hi Meli - The subject of the subscription was - De Dunstanville Memorial - A meeting of the Committee will be holden (sic) at Monday next, the 11th inst., at Twelve o'clock, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro. W. M. Tweedy, Secretary. Subscriptions are received by all the Bankers in the County, by the Members of the Committee, and by Messrs. Praeds and Co. bankers, London. Amount already advertised - 3,268 - 7 - 6 John Hext, Restormel - 5 - 0 - 0 Rev. D. Jenkins - 2 - 0 - 0 etc. The West Briton regularly kept track of various subscriptions - for individual and/or civic monuments, or community fund raising, etc. - and to encourage others to give money also, they'd publish the names and amounts of contributions. These amounts mentioned were generous, the better to encourage others, so this Hugh Phillips was definitely a person of "respectability", so to speak. This was a list of all the Illogen contributors, it seems. The de Dunstanville memorial was extremely well funded, but unfortunately, the footings of the memorial were faulty, and it collapsed. The committee then tried to obtain more funds, but by that time, other memorials became more important, and the memorial had to be built to a lesser design. Regards, Julia Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell W. Briton newspaper transcripts at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org > > Hi, Y'all, > > On the OPC site I found the following transcription when I did a search on > HUGH PHILLIPS. [ The gentleman at the bottom of the list.] Can anyone > explain what the subscriptions are for and what the numbers mean following > their names? I am thinking this Hugh Phillips could be my great great > grandfather, as he was from Illogan during this time. > > > WEST BRITON ADVERTISER 08 Jan 1836 > Subscriptions are received by all the Bankers in the County, by the Members > of the Committee, and by Messrs. Praeds and Co. bankers, London. > > Amount already advertised - 3,268 - 7 - 6 > John Hext, Restormel - 5 - 0 - 0 > Rev. D. Jenkins - 2 - 0 - 0 > John Fox, Illogan - 1 - 0 - 0 > Charles Paull, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Gen. Reynolds, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Arthur Trewartha, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Geroge Treglous, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Alfred Phillips, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Joseph Knight, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > John Richards, ditto - 1 - 0 - 0 > Hugh Phillips, ditto - 0 - 5 - 0 > > Thanks for any help.... Meli in Texas