Charities

• Pennant's (For the poorest, best behaved who regularly attended church)

• Findall's (Founded in 1604[2]  - For keeping the church pathway clear, and for the poor)

• The Rector's annual £10 (For the upkeep of a bull and a boar for exclusive use of parishioners)

• Poor Houses (including bakehouse, undone by the Poor-law)

• Village Greens (A great idea, messed up by Enclosure)

• Gravel Pits (Five acres for repair of parish's roads - also undone by Enclosure)

• Widow Turpin (Founded 1736[2]  for Mary Hockley, her children and then the poor of the parish)

Given out to the poor of Weston Turville.

• 1,457 2lb loaves in 1899 - 2 sessions, why an odd number? 

• 1,452 2lb loaves in 1900

• 1,000 (1905) 2lb loaves in 1905

One of the trustees is W. Kirtland (was he the farrier and publican that went bankrupt?)

By 1947,  things were going off the rails; Hit by Rationing in WW2, "being given out to a £10 a week man"[3]  or one with £1,000 in the bank[3] .

1951, a strange mix of controversy and apathy.[4]

1951 an American who'd learned there were loaves unclaimed by the poor of Weston Turville sent the bank details of a baker in Cincinnati so they could distribute some.[5]

1953 Widow Turpin's charity is used as an example of a charity made redundant by the Welfare State.[6]

1953 There are trustees nominated but declining the offer, then the intention to change the charity to issuing vouchers instead.[7]

References

1. ^ This page is mostly based upon a Bucks Herald article "The Parish Council and Charities" 27 June 1896

2. ^ Returns of Charitable Donations

3. ^ Bucks Avertiser 14 Mar 1947

4. ^ Bucks Herald 15 June 1951

5. ^ Bucks Herald 29 Jun 1951

6. ^ Daily Herald 22 Jul 1953

7. ^ Bucks Advertiser 25 Sep 1953