Thomas and Edward Thomas, each gave £100 in trust, to invest the same for the benefit of the poor of the parish of High Ercall. These donations were invested by the trustees in 1798 in the purchase of three per cent. consols, which were increased in 1816 by the accumulation of dividends to the sum of £500, when the stock was transferred to John Colley and Edward Steedman. Of the sum of £193. 8s. 2d. received in 1816 for the arrears of dividends, after payment of expenses of recovering the same, and the purchase of the additional stock, there remained in the hands of Mr. Colley the sum of £74. 6s. 1d., out of which he disposed of £38. 15s. to different charitable purposes, and in 1830 when the charity commissioners published their report he had still £35. 11s. 1d. in his hands. The principal part of the dividends is now applied in the purchase of bread, which is distributed among poor persons of the parish, a preference being given to widows, the remainder of the dividends is given among the necessitous poor in money.
Mr. Henry Harris is the registrar of births and deaths for the High Ercall district.
Post Office.—At Mr. Harris’s. Letters arrive daily from Wellington by a foot messenger at 9 45 A.M., and are despatched at 5. P.M.
Bates Richard, shoemaker and gardener
Blakeway William, farmer and victualler, Cleveland Arms.
Clarke Robert, farmer and maltster
Dingle Rev. John, schoolmaster and curate, of Upton
Forester George Townsend, Esq., Sherlowe
Forester Rev. Robert Townsend, M.A., The Vicarage
Harris Henry, grocer, druggist, seed, corn, hop, iron and steel merchant, ironmonger, guano and tillage dealer, cheese factor, and nail maker