How to search a town or Village for a name. On the Browser click on Edit, then Find. A box will apear fill this in
with what you want to find, this should then go to the town, village or family you are looking for. Best of Luck.
All spelling as in Church Records
Reading and Writing was a thing most people could not do until schools were opened for the poor in 1800s
Most people made a mark other spelt their names as it sounded. My own family Eeles or Eles, Elis, Yeales, Els
and so on, you could be baptised with one spelling, married with another and buried with yet another name
so now today we have many names that come from the same root. Smith,Smyth,Smiff, and so on. All the records
are as people signed in the days they lived
Aldershot Baptisms,Marriage and Death. There are more pages
about Aldershot further down the page. Many of these Families still
live no more than a mile or two from their Families in the 14th Century
The Aldershot links on this page, total more than 40,000 people from 1520 to 1910
If asked and it is possible I will help anybody find members of their family tree
There are limits, the lady that asked me to find a family member who had a child out of
Wedlock by Sir Winston Churchill. She was paid a Ł1000 not to make a fuss, or that is
how the story went. I found the family member and the child, did it never happend or it was
kept quiet and no records found?
I was asked to look for members of a ladies family tree in Canada, only to find
her family tree was more like who's who. The Rolls of Rolls Royce car fame, many Lords
All I can say is where did the money go
The lady that asked how important a member of her family was, because he was in the Queens
Life Guards, I still to this day wonder if she thought he looked after the Queen when she went swimming
I was not to sure if the Queen did know him
Did you know " Untill the 1500's all children were called Girls
Girl once referred to a child of either sex, with "knave girl" referring to a male and "gay girl" referring to a female
Did you know, if you did not go to church you had a fine of Ł1 when King Henry was alive the fine was Ł|21 pounds, so Catholics had to
go to a Church of England Service
Did you know Trial by Ordeal
In medieval times, the accused was forced to carry a red-hot piece of coal a required distance (the length of the nave of a Church) or walk with a blindfold on over a bed of red-hot coals. If he/she emerged unblemished and uninjured, or healed quickly, then they would be found not guilty.
Did you know Under Medieval law, animals could be tried and sentenced for crimes, just as though they were people.
Did you know It is illegal too beat any carpet or rug in the street after 8am, within the Metropolitan Police District, under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847.
Did you know Under the same act it is illegal to fly a kite in the capital. Victorians thought they spread diseases.
Did you know It is illegal to be drunk in a pub, club or any licensed premises, under the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. Betting is also banned in such establishments, while "persons of notoriously bad character" are not allowed to meet there.
Did you know Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments.
A law prohibiting anyone from dying while inside the Houses of Parliament has been voted as the most ridiculous law by the British citizens.
Eeles Family ,Pratley Family , Dore Family ,
Benfield Family , Burgin Family , Turner Family , Dellaway Family ,
Shayler Family , Puddle Family , Harris Family
Simpson
Family , Weyn Family , Townsend Family , Willett Family , Winfield
Family, Wiggins Family, Sparks Family. Gregory Family , Grace Family ,
Rainbow Family , Ferriman Family , Drinkwater Family
Did you know Placing a postage stamp bearing the monarch’s head upside down on an envelope is considered as act of treason.
Also, defacing or destroying anything bearing a likeness of the monarch is illegal. This includes burning paper money or tearing a stamp apart
Did you know The Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 states that no one, “except persons acting in obedience to lawful authority, may discharge any cannon or other firearm of greater caliber than a common fowling-piece, within 300 yards of any dwelling house, to the annoyance of any inhabitant there of all.
Did you know A law passed in 1585, making it illegal for women to “cause a nuisance with abusive or argumentative language. A woman guilty of scolding had to wear a scolda€™s bridle, or metal cage, enclosing her head.
Did you know Trespassing is illegal, except by huers and baulkers.
An Act of 1603 comes from an ancient custom in Cornwall. People known as “huers and baulkers” would stand on the cliffs and shout to fishing boats, directing them toward schools of fish. The Act gives those on the cliffs the right of entry onto the lands of others, and a defense against trespassing.
Did you know The Town Police Clauses Act of 1847 threatens a Ł1,000 fine for hanging washing across the street.
Beating or shaking carpets, rugs or mats is also illegal. Doormats may be beaten, but not after eight in the morning.
Did you know the small boys law This Act also outlaws the singing of profane or obscene songs or ballads, wantonly discharging firearms, making bonfires, flying kites, sliding on ice or snow, extinguishing a lamp or willfully and wantonly disturbing residents by ringing their doorbells.
Did you know From a statute of 1324 called the Prerogativa Regis, any whale or sturgeon found on the United Kingdom coastline, or caught in seas adjoining the coast, must be offered to the Crown
Traditionally, the head belongs to the King. The tail goes “to furnish the Queen’s wardrobe with whalebone” for her corsets.
Did you Know that operating a horse, cow or steam engine while intoxicated carries a prison sentence or a ÂŁ200 fine.
Did you know In York it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow upon seeing one, except for on Sundays. However any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow.
Similarly in Chester it is legal to shoot a Welsh person with a crossbow, as long as it is within the city walls and is done after midnight.
Did yo know In Chester, Welsh people aren’t allowed to enter the city grounds before sunrise and from staying after sunset.
Did you know where the English Sunday lunch comes from. In the middle ages the Lord of the Manor by Law had to provide lunch on Sunday for all his workers, this had to be roast meat with veg.
We to this day, still on a Sunday have roast meat and our veg (THE SUNDAY ROAST LUNCH)
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Eeles Family in Oxfordshire & More
The site will show a few of the Members of the
Family Eeles. If you have others and you would like to show them on the
Eeles Web Pages Please send them to me at
www.kerry_thomas_brown@yahoo.com. I would be glad to show them
In this you can see how a name is spelt in many ways over time.
This was because some records keepers and the people themselves could
not read or write
Did you know In London it has been illegal for a man to hit his wife after 9pm. Indeed, wife also needs some time for rest. This law is very humanistic.
By law it is legal for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere she wishes.
The eating of Mince pies on Christmas day is illegal.
It was once also illegal to celebrate Christmas altogether because it wasn’t considered puritan enough even though it was a religious celebration.
Did you know It is illegal to impersonate old age pensioners in the London area of Chelsea.
Did you know It is an executable offense to allow your pet to mate with a pet of the royal house without permission.
Did you know Suicide is a capital crime.
Did you know It is illegal to either shave, work or to mow your lawn on a Sunday.
Did you know Tarot card readings and fortune telling are illegal as these are classed as forms of witchcraft.
Many of the Families in Oxfordshire were poor, most worked on the
land or as woodmen. Come winter there would not have been much work. If
you did not work them you would have no money coming into the home. Most
land was owned by the Churchill Family or other Lords. This ment you
could not pick up dead wood for the fire, or pick berries from hedges.
Nuts that had fallen from trees could not be picked up as this was
stealing. Some of the Eeles family were Game Keepers for such Lords. But
there were more Eeles that picked wood up, picked berries and nuts, and
were known to take the odd game bird, this could be done by making a
hole in the land owners hedge, so birds could wonder. So many Eeles fell
out with the Law.
Around Leafield or Charlbury if a child was born out of wedlock, they were called an Eeles.
Until the First World War the people in the area did not mix with
other, and married into the main families in the area (Pratley, Door,
Eeles, and so on.
From the time of King Henry the 8th, the era's of past family members.
Do we ever think why we are like we are, why did I do that. Why do I look as
I do. So much history and not all good for the working class man, in many
cases a fight to survive with no say in how their lives went. Why did my family
only move a mile or so in 500 years. What would my past family think of work
in the 21st century, to be able to vote, move to where they wanted to live.
Alas to many of us never think of our family from the past and the lack of
right, how many of us do not use these rights. Was their fight for a vote
now forgoten. A fight for how they worked or lived, right that could be lost
bit by bit. We should guard all the rights that we have been given, they
did not come without a fight.
Just a little bit more is as said " Just a little bit more" These Towns and Villages
are only part of there Records. With many other name and dates.
If ask I will make a full search for a Surname or give a free link to
find members of your Family from 1500 to 2000.
From its beginnings in the fourteenth century, up to the inauguration of the National Health Service in 1948, the evolution of England's poor laws is the story of one of the most significant and far-reaching strands of the nation's social policy and administration.
The history of the poor laws is conveniently divided into the Old Poor Law — crystallised in the 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor, and the New Poor Law — heralded by the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
The Old Poor Law can be broadly characterised as being parish-centred, haphazardly implemented, locally enforced, and with some of its most significant developments (e.g. the operation of workhouses) being completely voluntary. The New Poor Law, based on the new administrative unit of the Poor Law Union, aimed to introduce a rigorously implemented, centrally enforced, standard system that was to be imposed on all and which centred on the workhouse.
At a more profound level, the New Poor Law saw a fundamental change in the way that the poor were viewed by many of their "betters". The traditional attitude had been one of poverty being inevitable (exemplified by the oft-quoted biblical text "For the poor always ye have with you"), the poor essentially victims of their situation, and their relief a Christian duty. The 1834 Act was guided by a growing view that the poor were largely responsible for their own situation and which they could change if they chose to do so.
Not everything changed in 1834, however. One important and complex piece of poor law legislation which originated in 1662, and which did not finally disappear until 1948, was the Settlement Act. Remarkably, parts of the 1601 Poor Law Act were not finally repealed until 1967.
Origins of the Old Poor Law
The origins of parochial poor relief extend back at least as far as the fifteenth century. With the decline of the monasteries, and their dissolution in 1536, together with the breakdown of the medieval social structure, charity for the poor gradually moved from its traditional voluntary framework to become a compulsory tax administered at the parish level.
Legislation prior to this point largely dealt with beggars and vagabonds. In the aftermath of the Black Death (1348-9) labour was in short supply and wages rose steeply. To try and keep this in check, several Acts were passed aimed at forcing all able-bodied men to work and keep wages at their old levels. These measures led to labourers roaming around the country looking for an area where the wages were high and where the labour laws not too strictly enforced. Some took to begging under the pretence of being ill or crippled. In 1349, the Ordinance of Labourers (36 Edw.III c.8) prohibited private individuals from giving relief to able-bodied beggars.
In 1388, the Statute of Cambridge (12 Rich.II c.7) introduced regulations restricting the movements of all labourers and beggars. Each county "Hundred" became responsible for relieving its own "impotent poor" — those who, because of age or infirmity, were incapable of work. Servants wishing to move out of their own Hundred needed a letter of authority from the "good man of the Hundred" — the local Justice of the Peace — or risked being put in the stocks. Following this Act, beggars could pretend neither to be labourers (who needed permission to wander), nor to be invalids (who were also forbidden to wander). The 1388 Act is often regarded as the first English poor law. However, lack of enforcement limited its impact and effect.
Further legislation followed over the next two centuries. In 1494, the Vagabonds and Beggars Act (11 Henry VII c.2) determined that: "Vagabonds, idle and suspected persons shall be set in the stocks for three days and three nights and have none other sustenance but bread and water and then shall be put out of Town. Every beggar suitable to work shall resort to the Hundred where he last dwelled, is best known, or was born and there remain upon the pain aforesaid." Worse was to come — the 1547 Statute of Legal Settlement (1 Edw. VI. c.3) enacted that a sturdy beggar could be branded or made a slave for two years (or for life if he absconded). The Act condemned "...foolish pity and mercy" for vagrants. On a more positive note, cottages were to be erected for the impotent poor, and they were to be relieved or cured.
The seeds of the future direction of the poor laws in a short-lived Act of 1536 which required Churchwardens in each parish to collect voluntary alms in a 'common box' to provide handouts for those who could not work. At the same time, the idle and the able-bodied poor were obliged to perform labour, with punishment for those who refused. The Act also placed a prohibition on begging and on unofficial almsgiving. In the following decades, compulsory poor-taxes were established in London, Cambridge, Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich, and York. This principle was adopted nationally in 1572 with the introduction of a local property tax, the poor rate, which was assessed by local Justices of the Peace and administered by parish overseers. The money raised was to be used to relieve 'aged, poor, impotent, and decayed persons'.
An Act of 1564 aimed to suppress the 'roaming beggar' by empowering parish officers to 'appoint meet and convenient places for the habitations and abidings' of such classes — one of the first references to what was subsequently to evolve into the workhouse. This was followed in 1576 by an Act For Setting the Poor on Work which provided that stocks of materials such as wool, hemp, and flax should be provided and premises hired in which to employ the able-bodied poor.
In 1597, an Act For the Relief of the Poor (39 Eliz. c.3) required every parish to appoint Overseers of the Poor whose responsibility it was to find work for the unemployed and to set up parish-houses for those incapable of supporting themselves.
Under the 1601 Act, each parish was obliged to relieve the aged and the helpless, to bring up unprotected children in habits of industry, and to provide work for those capable of it but who were lacking their usual trade.
The main objectives of the 1601 Act were:
The establishment of the parish as the administrative unit responsible for poor relief, with churchwardens or parish overseers collecting poor-rates and allocating relief.
The provision of materials such as flax, hemp and wool to provide work for the able-bodied poor. Any able-bodied pauper who refused to work was liable to be placed in a 'House of Correction' or prison.
The relief of the 'impotent' poor — the old, the blind, the lame, and so on. This could include the provision of 'houses of dwelling' — almshouses or poorhouses rather than workhouses. The Act also made the relief and maintenance of such persons, the legal responsibility of their parents, grandparents, or children, if such relatives were themselves able to provide such support.
The setting to work and apprenticeship of children
Collection of the poor rates was done by the parish overseers who were unpaid and elected annually by the parish vestry. This was never a popular job and even missing one of their regular monthly meetings could result in an overseer receiving a hefty one pound fine. The poor-rates were dispensed to the needy of the parish as 'out-relief', usually in the form of bread, clothing, fuel, the payment of rent, or money.
You can read the full text of the 1601 Act.
The Poor Rate
The 1601 Act empowered parish overseers to raise money for poor relief from the inhabitants of the parish, according to their ability to pay. The poor-rate was originally a form of local income tax, but over time evolved into the rating system — a property tax based on the value of real estate. In general, the poor-rate was paid by the tenant of a property rather than its owner.
Failure to pay the poor-rate would result in a summons to appear before a Justices of the Peace who could impose a fine or the seizure of property, or even prison.
