Now! Then! Silkstone parish sends the presumably destitute James Lindly (7) as a servant to John Hobson in Dodworth

1 January 1735: Silkstone parish sends the presumably destitute James Lindly (7) as a servant to John Hobson in Dodworth

John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:

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James Lindly, aged 7 years, came to our house, as parish apprentice.

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I believe that Dodworth then formed part of Silkstone parish. Had James Lindly truly been abandoned, or is there some connection with William Lindly, a favourite with Hobson? Was the arrangement under the 1601 Act, or under later legislation, also tagged here?

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