Norfolk: Thorpe St Andrew - 1815

Battle of Waterloo Relief Fund

Thorpe St Andrew organised a collection as below to aid the wounded etc. who fought in the Battle of Waterloo in the Napoleonic Wars.

This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 228/76(S) and microform MF958/4]. It is part of the Churchwardens' accounts for 1747-1875 (Page numbered 81).

Thorpe Parish Aug^t 27^th 1815
Subscriptions in aid of the Fund for the Relief of the Wounded Survivors (and their Widows & Children of those who fell) in the Glorius Battle of Waterloo.

[Names]	£	s	d
Collected at Church	5	1	10
Further Subscription by the Inhabitants of the said Parish
The Rev^d J Maxwell Rector	5	0	0
W J Robinson	1	0	0
F West	1	0	0
W^m Smith	1	0	0
T Massey	1	0	0
M^rs Bontill/Bowhill?	1	0	0
Dewing	0	10	6
M^r Dan^l Ames	2	0	0
Hales Esq^r	1	0	0
J Batley	0	5	0
M^r D Cox 2/6 Smith Taylor 1^s/- J. Lincoln 1^s/-	0	4	6
Rodwell 1/- Jex -/6^d R Dale 3/- Catermoull 1/-	0	5	6
J Rayner 3/- J Mack(*) 1/- Drew 1/-	0	5	0
J _ann_d? 3/- Buxt__? 2/- J Weeds 2/-	0	7	0

Paid to the Rev^d M^r Maxwell	19	19	4

Afterwards paid by him into Mess^rs Gurney's Bank to be transmitted to the Committee in London.
J Maxwell - Rector

[End of Document]

Notes

"J Mack" could be "I Marsh"?

See also the Thorpe St Andrew (Thorpe Episcopi) parish page.

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August 2008