Parish and belonging

Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 14
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 15
I......Page 17
II......Page 28
III......Page 39
CHAPTER 2 The culture of local xenophobia......Page 44
INTRODUCTION......Page 97
IDEAS OF HOME AND BELONGING AMONG THE POOR......Page 103
THE POOR’S KNOWLEDGE OF SETTLEMENT......Page 105
SETTLEMENT AND BELONGING, c. 1690 – c. 1795......Page 109
SETTLEMENT AND BELONGING, c. 1795 – c. 1876......Page 130
EXCLUDING THE POOR......Page 143
CONCLUSION......Page 173
I......Page 178
II......Page 183
III......Page 193
IV......Page 202
V......Page 209
Places supplying registers for analysis of marriage......Page 218
Published parish registers analysed......Page 221
INTRODUCTION......Page 223
THE NEW POOR LAW OVER TIME......Page 228
OUT-DOOR RELIEF DIFFERENCES IN THE NATIONAL DIVISIONS......Page 239
THE UNION CARTOGRAPHY OF OUT-DOOR RELIEF, AND RURAL–URBAN DIFFERENCES......Page 244
THE POOR LAW GENERAL ORDERS......Page 251
OUT-DOOR MEDICAL RELIEF......Page 266
RURAL–URBAN DIFFERENCES AS EXPLANATION......Page 269
THE SITUATION IN WALES......Page 272
RELAXING THE RULES: THE MID-CENTURY YEARS......Page 277
THE ‘CRUSADE’ AGAINST OUT-DOOR RELIEF......Page 278
TYPES OF LABOUR TEST......Page 295
A CASE STUDY OF BILLESDON......Page 301
THE RELATIVE COSTS OF IN-DOOR AND OUT-DOOR RELIEF......Page 303
THE VALUE OF OUT-RELIEF PAYMENTS......Page 306
OUT-DOOR RELIEF AND KIN SUBSIDIES TO THE ELDERLY POOR......Page 312
THE CATEGORIES OF OUT-DOOR AND IN-DOOR RELIEF......Page 322
DISCRIMINATION? THE SETTLED AND THE IRREMOVABLE......Page 326
DISCRIMINATION? THE IRISH, SCOTS AND ENGLISH......Page 335
OUT-RELIEF, PUBLIC WORKS AND UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 343
CONCLUSION......Page 345
CHAPTER 6 Nailed to the church door? Parish overseers and the new poor law......Page 355
INTRODUCTION......Page 382
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL PLACES......Page 389
DETACHED PARTS OF PARISHES......Page 398
CHURCH REFORM, URBANISATION AND NEW PARISHES......Page 403
THE CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AND NEW PARISHES......Page 409
THE ‘NEW PARISHES ACTS’ OF 1843, 1844 AND 1856......Page 414
TYPES OF PAROCHIAL DIVISION......Page 415
SUMMARY POINTS ABOUT ALL THE ACTS......Page 419
CHURCH BUILDING AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEW PARISHES......Page 421
THE CHRONOLOGY OF NEW PARISH FORMATION......Page 428
PROBLEMS OF THE NEW PARISHES......Page 430
NEW PARISHES IN THE FOREST OF DEAN: A CASE STUDY......Page 437
NEW PARISHES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 448
CONCLUSION......Page 456
APPENDIX 7.1 FOREST OF DEAN CHANGES IN PARISH STRUCTURES......Page 464
I......Page 470
II......Page 485
III......Page 493
APPENDIX 8.1......Page 510
CHAPTER 9 Conclusion – belonging, parish and community......Page 512
Select bibliography......Page 521
Subject and persons index......Page 535
Places index......Page 548