Catalogue description POPPLEWELL'S GREAT AND LITTLE BOLTON CLOTHING CHARITY

This record is held by Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service

Details of FCH1
Reference: FCH1
Title: POPPLEWELL'S GREAT AND LITTLE BOLTON CLOTHING CHARITY
Description:

FCH1/1/1-2 Minute Books 1918-1982

 

FCH1/2/1-5 Registers of Beneficiaries and Financial Records 1830-1955

 

FCH1/3/1-4 Miscellaneous Items 1861-1900

Date: 1830 - 1682
Held by: Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Popplewell's Great and Little Bolton Clothing Charity, 1920-1970, Lancashire

Subjects:
  • Bolton, Lancashire
Administrative / biographical background:

By deed poll, dated 28th August 1829, the executors of John Popplewell of Woodford, Essex, conveyed to trustees, namely Reverend James Slade, Vicar of Bolton, Edward Bolling of Great Bolton, cotton spinner, John Fletcher of the Hollins in Haulgh, gentleman, and John Mawdsley of Little Bolton, cotton spinner, the sum of £4,500 three per cent reduced bank annuities, the dividends arising therefrom to be devoted to various charitable purposes in Turton and Bolton.

 

The principal part of these dividends was to be expended on the purchase of linen cloth for shirts and shifts, flannel for petticoats, men's and women's worsted stockings, and wheaten loaves for distribution to a number of 'poor and industrious' men and women residing in the townships of Great Bolton and Little Bolton, after divine service at Bolton Parish Church on the 10th December every year.

 

The beneficiaries were selected by the Vicar and Trustees assisted by the Churchwardens and the Overseers of the Poor of both townships. The Trustees, Churchwardens and Overseers were ordered to keep a book in which to enter the names of the recipients 'regularly and alphabetically'. No person was allowed to benefit from the Charity if they were in receipt of poor relief nor more than once every 'three or four years'.

 

Under a scheme dated 26th November 1970, the Charity Commissioners divided the Charity into the John Popplewell (Turton) Charity and the Popplewell (Bolton) Charity. In April 1982, the trusteeship and administration of the Charity was transferred to Bolton Guild of Help.

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