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From: "rossbret" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Friendly Workers Among the Poor
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:33:08 -0000
References: <00d101c07099$68adc620$87304bcf@gsmith>


Hi Gail,
Found another one - from White Directory 1837

The Benevolent Society, or Stranger's Friends Society, was established in
1790, by the Wesleyan Methodists. It dispenses about £350 per annum, raised
by subscription; seeks out the abodes of the wretched, and relieves their
wants through the medium of its visitors. The Church of England District
Visiting Society, was formed in 1830, and not only relieves the necessitous
poor, but inculcates a provident care, by giving premiums on all sums
deposited with them by such poor families as have it in their power to lay
by a small portion of their weekly earnings against a time of need.

All the best, Jan
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Subject: [UK-W&H] Friendly Workers Among the Poor


> In my uncle's application to an orphanage, my grandfather stated that he
worked at City of London Lying-in Hospital as a porter, a job that he
claimed to have gotten through the "Friendly Workers Among the Poor". Has
anyone ever heard of this organization?
>
> Gail


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