Notes on the inhabitants of Doddenham, kept by the
Clergyman of the day, during the latter part of the 19th Century.
Bishop
John
m. St Martin's, Worcester.
9/12/1878
[widower-widow]Redlands, The Leap.
Charlotte
[Harding]Have no children.
Rent house& farm from Mr Birch of Gold's Hill.
Keep pony & cart, lace carriers to Worcester W.&S.
Look after old John & Betty Bishop, his father and mother.C.C = 3d Bishop
[m. /11/1825
at Leigh.]John
84
Betty
[Elizabeth Wood]80 [d. at Martley workhouse, May 4th 1882 = 80 years]
He formerly Clerk at the Church.
She once a very clean & tidy woman, but now very dirty, and unable to do anything for herself.
Have 4/- a week from Parish.
Ought to go into workhouse.
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