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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Parish Relief ?
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:30:03 +0100


In article <6v0uto$rpg$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>, Bryan Hoggarth
<> writes
>I think parish relief was more civil than church based. It was paid for by
>the taxes which were imposed; in fact I believe that apart from the
>occasional war requirement the looking after the poor was the main reason
>taxes were started. When the Unions (Workhouses) were set up then lots of
>people had to go into them to get any relief but there was a system of
>outside relief. Some of my old relatives were "on parish relief" in the
>1891 census, but living in a normal dwelling.
Different sort of tax - it was paid for from money collected from the
somewhat better off living in the parishes and adminsitered locally
(with some inspection by the Government). Income tax, collected and
administered by the government, was a different matter, paying for wars
and other frivolities.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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