This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jonathan_Fry Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.yks.general/14724/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Board, Parallel to my family history research I've recently started a personal research project into the poorhouses in the hamlet of Meaux in the East Riding of Yorkshire. This project started after visiting friends who live in the hamlet and going through some old maps of the area. The 1851 Ordnance Survey map of Meaux shows some poorhouses adjacent to a Methodist Chapel Bethel along the main Meaux Lane close to Meaux Bridge. Viewing the 1898 Ordnance Survey map of the same area shows the chapel and original poorhouses gone and the poorhouses apparently rebuilt a little further south down the lane. These new poorhouses are still in existence today, now an occupied residential property with an original dating plague high on the gable end showing 1866 as the build date. Information about the Meaux poorhouses and Methodist Chapel Bethel is very limited so I'm appealing to the board for any information members may have accumulated during their own family history research which references either the chapel or poorhouses. I'm especially looking for snippets of census returns listing any inmates or residents of the poorhouses, any information on births, deaths or marriages carried out at the chapel, scans of any old photos of these buildings or any information which board members may have accumulated during their own research. Meaux is a very small hamlet with few residents so records are limited. Any information, however insignificant would be greatly appreciated by both myself and my friends who live there. Jon Fry Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.