Question about first row of the table [12 August 2013]
Does the first row contain column headings or data? Column 2 makes me think it is data, but at that point, I don't know what the data in column 3 represents. Maybe you can clarify this.
Overall, I found the page interesting and informative. I need to study my English history more.
Rick--RGMoffat 12:09, 12 August 2013 (EDT)
- In a hurry right now, but am always tempted to answer questions. There is no header row to the table. Column 3 refers to the unions within the county that the individual parish belonged to at various times (described in column 2). Feel free to ask more for later. It's dinner time. --Goldenoldie 12:21, 12 August 2013 (EDT)
So if I understand you correctly, the column headings could be something like:
Col 1 = Authority/Legislation
Col 2 = Effective Period
Col 3 = Union Name
Now I will go look at your reference links to understand a Union. This relieves the tedium of reviewing my latest upload and moving some of the data to different fields. My database does not put some data into the GEDCOM tags that WR expects. Only 400+ to review.--RGMoffat 13:00, 12 August 2013 (EDT)
- Union means, in this case, a grouping together of parishes. The reasons for the groupings or unions were not the same. Hundreds started with William the Conqueror and manors and feudalism, by about 1400 the number had been reduced and they became groups with a system of courts, but GENUKI will explain it better than I can.
- By the 19th century Poor Law Unions were formed so that the really needy could be put in a workhouse--there was one for every Poor Law Union and all the parishes in the union had to contribute the money to keep them. (The usual Canadian term was House of Refuge.) Sanitary districts evolved, in a way, out of Poor Law Unions. Their purposes were building drains and collecting garbage, probably. The Rural District and Urban District Councils established 1894 took charge of a lot more semi-local problems, a bit like a township. The modern-day councils simply reduced the number of Rural and Urban Councils because now that everyone is networked by internet, and phone, a county just doesn't need that many administrative bodies anymore.
- From a genealogical point of view, one could omit the Sanitary Districts. But somewhere sometime someone will find an ancestor in the xxx Union Poorhouse and want to know the situation that moved him or her from y parish to z town where the poorhouse was located. In the 20th century Districts became much more important than parishes as bodies of local administration.
- I continue to await a response from the wiki-speak experts. I can think of plenty of situations where I would like to use a template with a series of variables, if only I knew how.
/cheers
Pat --Goldenoldie 14:33, 12 August 2013 (EDT)
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