Thanks Elizabeth, I generally knew all this but because I had not come across this before in any other PR's I thought it unusual and that there might be another meaning. Maybe this Vicar was extra vigilant and kept going back to the Workhouse to catch them all. Bev -------------------------------------------------- From: "elizabeth howard" <elizgh@btinternet.com> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 1:00 AM To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: [DEV] Chargeable to their Parish bapt at Totnes > Hi Bev, The clue is in the name Union workhouse. > .......and you will find that a number of parishes came under this union > and > the workhouse at Totnes was built to cope with the needy of these parishes > in the Totnes union .( 28 parishes in the Totnes Union) So Henry Foale > was > chargeable to Cherston Ferrers , and Lee to Halwell and so on . This is > the new system from 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act.. Each parish in the > Union > has a parish relief officer and it was his job to decide with the > churchwardens and overseers of the poor , who could be kept in the parish > on > parish relief ( those who might be capable of some sort of paid work for > the > parish , laying out the dead, sitting with the dying , crow catching , > scarecrowing etc.) and those who would have to be sent to the workhouse , > mostly as you can see from this it was those young unmarried women who > were > pregnant, very old people and young women with 5 children under 5 who had > mislaid their husbands and were simply too burdened with children to be > able > to do any work . > > > > > > life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. Edmonds" <beverley@yourisp.com.au> > To: <DEVON@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 6:19 AM > Subject: [DEV] Chargeable to their Parish bapt at Totnes > > >> Hi, >> I am after a HARRIS family, mother Mary c 1813 Totnes, had a son Peter c >> 1847 at Totnes. I have yet to find him but have been sidetracked with >> below. >> >> I am having a hard time finding some of these [below] in 1851. >> >> >> Totnes >> >> All Christened at Totnes, but what does Chargeable in this instance mean? >> I >> am assuming they have wandered into Totnes without Settlement >> Certificates. >> >> All of Totnes Union Workhouse ...................chargeable to the Parish >> of........... >> Mar 26th 1839 Henry s/o George and Alice FOALE ... Cherston [sic] >> Ferrers >> Mar 26th 1839 William s/o Marianne LEE [Illeg]............Halwell >> Mar 26th 1839 Ann/ d/o Ann SOPER [Illeg] ........South Brent >> Mar 26th 1839, Ann d/o Ann HARRIS [Illeg] .............Staverton >> 28 Apr 1839 Mary Jane d/o Philippa COLE [Illeg] .............Ugborough >> 17th May 1839 Richard Yelland s/o Charles & Mary WIDGER >> ..................Stoke Gabriel >> >> >> Bev >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3658/6466 - Release Date: 01/01/14 >