Below is an index of surnames contained in the account book for outdoor relief in Turton for 1789 to 1791. The index includes the names of people in receipt of relief payments, as well as the overseers themselves and any person paid for provision of goods or services. A handful of selected entries from the account are also included below the index.
A copy of this book is available to TLHS members in our archive.
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| Poor Relief Accounts 1789 - 1791 (Bolton Archive Ref: PTU/12) |
John Dewhurst kept the accounts between 1789 and 1790, and was presumably Overseer of the Poor for that period, with Samuel Holt holding the position from 1790 to 1791.
Surname Index
Astall, Mr 63b
Barlow, Alice (Nichodane) 95
Brandwood, Abraham 40, 73
Brandwood, Abraham
Brandwood, John 63c
Bridge, Jane 105
Bridge, Thomas (Widow) 101c
Bromiley, Betty (Gregsons) 91
Bromiley, John (Arthur son near Brook Stirrup) 93
Bromiley, John (Old Clerk Bromiley) 98
Bromiley, Jonny (Cocksgreen) 99
Bromiley, Mal (Old) 63f
Bromiley, Thomas (Smithy) 55
Bromiley, Thomas 101b
Bromiley, Tom: 63c
Bromiley, William 34, 85
Bromiley, William (Stokport) 83
Bromily, Betty (Gregsons) 63c
Bromily, Ellen (Bolton) 64
Bromily, Mary (Old) 63, 63c
Bromily, Nancy 64
Bromley, Arthur (Widow) 17
Bromley, Betty 26
Bromley, John (Old) 35
Bromley, John 41, 63f
Bromley, Thomas (Son) 36
Bromley, Widow (Bolton) 25
Bromley, Widow 29
Brook, John 101c
Brooks, Robert 61
Carlile, Nancy 9
Clegg, Andrew ([Doctor]) 52
Clegg, Thomas 45
Crook, James 46
Crook, James (Widow at Whittals) 84
Crook, Peter 45, 63, 99, 101
Cross, Egerton (Esq. for Egertons) 44c
Dearden, John 60, 78
Derbyshire, James 63c
Dewhurst, John (Keeper of the accounts) 44, 44f, 63, 101d
Draper, John 101d
Duxbury, Betty 101b, 101c
Eddleston, William 63d, 95
Entwistle, Hugh 74
Fielding, An 29
Fielding, Ann (School) 37
Fielding, James 63, 103
Fielding, John 13, 63d
Fielding, John (son of late James Fielding) 63
Fielding, Lawrence 81
Fielding, Thomas 16, 63d
Fielding, Thomas (Outlanes) 94
Fogg, Thomas 44d
Fowler, James 73
Galloway, Gregson 92
Green, Alice 70
Green, James 63f, 101
Green, Moses (Soldier wife) 104
Green, Roger (Billinge) 76
Green, Susannah (Manchester) 43
Greenhalgh, Robert (Blacksmith of Dofcocker Halliwell) 98
Gregson, Ellen 42, 54
Grime, Joseph 63b
Halliwell, Thomas 14
Hamer, John 74
Hamer, Joseph 74
Hamer, Richard 74
Hardman, John 15, 86, 99
Haslam, James (Child) 21
Haslam, James (Westhoughton workhouse) 52
Haslam, John (Buffs) 71
Haslam, Peter (Heaton) 31
Haslam, William 105
Haworth, Alice 63d
Haworth, James 58
Haworth, James (Tubers) 85
Haworth, John 58, 102
Haworth, Maly (Bastard) 10
Haworth, Mary (Bastard child) 58, 63b, 102
Haworth, Molley (Bolton) 19
Haworth, Mr 101, 101c
Haworth, Robert (Widow) 59
Haworth, Samuel (Tubers widow) 66
Holt, Ann 105
Holt, Edmund 101b
Holt, Esther (Blind girl) 22, 56
Holt, Hannah 105
Holt, Henry (Pickslane) 32
Holt, Samuel (Overseer) 44c, 44f, 44g, 98, 101, 105
Holt, Susan 51, 77
Holt, Thomas 39
Holt, Widow (Goosecoathill) 5
Holt, Widow (Farnworth) 24, 90
Holt, Widow 48, 77
Holt, William (Blind lad) 23, 57
Holt, William (Pikeslane) 69
Horrocks, William 92
Houghton, Mr. 62
Howarth, James (Overhouses) 87
Ivison, Rebecca 63f, 101, 101b
Kay, James 28, 29, 31, 42, 43, 48, 51, 58, 63, 84, 90, 94, 63b, 63d
Kay, James (Buffs) 105
Kay, John 101, 101c
Kay, Mr 101c
Kaye, James 105
Kershaw, Thomas 63d
Knowles, Ann (Bastard child) 86
Knowles, Ann 44c, 63f
Knowles, Benjamin 1
Knowles, James (Rock) 4
Knowles, Margaret (Widow at Newhouse) 100
Knowles, Ralph 7, 61
Knowles, Samuel 101c
Knowles, William 95
Little, Thomas (Widow) 62
Livesey, John 14
Lomax, James (Nabb) 44c
Lomax, James 44g
Lomax, John 61
Longshaw, Mr 50
Low, John 47
Low, Peggy 63c
Low, William 63f
Lowe, John 101c
Lowe, Martha 101b
Marsh, Jeremiah 105
Mason, John 48, 99, [Loose]
Mason, Robert 14, 101
Mason, Thomas 63f
Mather, James 15, 50, 63c
Mather, John (Bolton) 68
Mather, Thomas 27
Mather, William 30, 53, 101d
Mayoh, Ann 38
Mayoh, Ann (Top of Halliwell, Bastard child) 75
Mayoh, John (Goosecoathill) 12, 45
Mayoh, John (Senior) 79
Mayoh, John 63b, 76, 99, [Loose]
Mayoh, Robert 63b
Nevill, Jonathan 29, 44c, 44d, 63d, 63e, 105
Nuttall, John 14, 48, 63, 96
Ormrod, John 79
Orrell, Ann (Bastard child) 82
Orrell, George (Delf Engine House) 44d
Orrell, Isaac 25, 35, 46, 50, 77, 102, 103
Pennington, Peter 63d
Pilkington, John (Wife Shore) 11
Pilkington, John (Wife soldier) 60, 97
Pilkington, John 44c, 63f, 86
Pilkington, Joseph (Pickupbank) 96
Pilkington, Richard 81
Pilkington, Samuel 44, 46
Rainforth, James 14, 67
Rammell, Widow 88
Rathbone, Mr 63, 63d
Rawsthorn, Ann 44c, 63d
Rawsthorn, Ann (Child) 63b
Rawsthorn, Henry (Bolton) 80
Rawsthorn, John 63c
Rawsthorn, Richard 49
Rawsthorn, Thomas (Blackburn) 77
Rawsthorn, Thomas 63b, 89
Rawsthorn, William (Batterage) 88
Rawstron, Thomas 18
Rawstron, Thomas (Boy) 33
Roscoe, John 79
Rothwell, John 3
Rothwell, John (Goosecoathill) 51
Rothwell, William 13
Rowstron, Richard 8
Sharrock, James 6
Shorrock, James 46, 47
Shorrock, Roger 2, 47, 92
Slater, Thomas 63c
Smith, Thomas 42, 43, 90, 101b
Smith, William 13
Smith, William (Little Bolton) 63
Thomason, A. 56
Thomason, Ann (Widow) 78
Thomason, John 101d
Topping, Mr (Councillor) 63f, 101, 101b
Tubers, Ralph 63f
Walch, Alice (Bolton) 65
Walch, Alis 20
Walch, John (Risley) 72
Walker, Peter 101d
Walmisley, Benjamin (Trustees of) 44d
Walmisley, Nancy (Bastard child) 87
Ward, Richard 42, 43
Whalley, John 44c, 63b
Woodcock, Mr 28
Yates, Sarah 101b
Selected Entries
- 11 Nov 1789 - 2s 6d to John Rothwell for his children's clogs
- 6 Nov 1789 - 2s to James Knowles to relief his wife being ill
- 6 Mar 1790 - 1s 6d John Pilkington's wife at Shore for one yard of cotton for a bedgown
- 1 Apr 1790 - Paid to John Hardman for removing James Mather's goods from Eagley Bridge to Goosecoat Hill
- 8 Dec 1789 - 3s to Arthur Bromley's widow for cloathing for her lad
- 15 Apr 1790 - Expense of James Kay, Ric. Ward & myself going from Manchester to Warrington after a man having gotten her [Ellin Gregson] with child. 6s 3d.
- 10 May 1790 - 2s 6d to James Mather (Gooscoathill) necessity Children in the Measles
- 22 Jun 1790 - 2s 6d for James Mather (Goodcoathill) paid Isaac Orrell for childs coffin
- 8 Jun 1790 - [for James Haslam] To Dr Clegg for going to see him [at Westhoughton Workhouse] & Physick together with wine to take after the cold fit
- 8 May 1790 - Expense at John Nuttall's with the Churchwarden & other overseers when John Fielding (son of the late James Fielding). Indenture was signed, bound to Wm. Smith of Little Bolton
- 4 Oct 1790 - Paid Doctor towards curing James Mather lad of a cancer 10s
- 9 Oct 1790 - A pair of cloggs for Betty Bromily a lamewench at Gregsons
- 26 Oct 1790 - To Tom: Bromily for mowing Rushes for part of Dimple House 1s
- 3 Jan 1791 - Expense when Sharples moved for an order to remove Alice Haworth and it was determined that she belonged to Turton - also made an agreement with Peter Pendlebury who had got her with child
- 27 Jan 1791 - [John Bromiley - son Old Clerk Bromiley] He was educated at the Blue Coat Hospital in Manchester and put apprentice according to the rules of the said Charity - But his Master Robert Greenhalgh Blacksmith who then lived at Dofcocker in Hallewell was (during the whole term of the said Bromiley apprentiship) acertivicated person from Ainsworth to Hallewell aforesaid, whereby no settlement was gained by his said apprentiship
- 30 Aug 1790 - [Ellen Bromily, Bolton] Allowed for her Daughter being bit by a mad Dogg to buy a dose
- 23 Feb 1791 - [Thomas Fielding, Outlanes] Necessity his wife being very ill & viewed her and family and found them in want of every thing. 5s.
