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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      02 February 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511495977
      9780521815802
      9780521037921
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495977
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.704kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.513kg, 340 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (39)
      Subjects:
      British History after 1450, Demography, Social Statistics, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Sociology
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (39)
    Subjects:
    British History after 1450, Demography, Social Statistics, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Sociology
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    The Decline of Life is an ambitious and absorbing study of old age in eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a wealth of sources - literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries - Susannah Ottaway considers a wide range of experiences and expectations of age in the period, and demonstrates that the central concern of ageing individuals was to continue to live as independently as possible into their last days. Ageing men and women stayed closely connected to their families and communities, in relationships characterized by mutual support and reciprocal obligations. Despite these aspects of continuity, however, older individuals' ability to maintain their autonomy, and the nature of the support available to them once they did fall into necessity declined significantly in the last decades of the century. As a result, old age was increasingly marginalized. Historical demographers, historical gerontologists, sociologists, social historians and women's historians will find this book essential reading.

    Reviews

    ‘Ottaway‘s book, however, does serve as a model for how to write a gendered social history … historians of demography, family, society, gender, and, of course, the eighteenth century, will find much in Ottaway‘s book to interest and instruct them.‘

    Source: H-Net

    ‘… an admirably detailed examination both of the experiences and of the expectations of the elderly in England during the eighteenth century … this should be required reading for the demographer and the social historian, but will be of interest to everyone with an historical bias.‘

    Source: Family History

    ‘The Decline of Life is an important book that challenges what we thought we knew about old age in the past and affirms other, long held, traditional views, but most importantly it covers uncharted eighteenth-century ground and brings home the idea that one of the truest tests of any society is how it treats its dependent members, especially its old.‘

    Source: Local Population Studies

    ‘… impressively thorough and readable … This book makes important contributions to historical scholarship in a number of ways. It also demonstrates how what could have been a narrow study of the distant past can stimulate thinking about the role of older people in all times and places.‘

    Source: Population Studies

    'This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book. … This important book deserves the attention of urban historians and hopefully will be the touchstone for detailed micro-studies of the elderly in eighteenth-century urban England.'

    Source: Urban History

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Bibliography
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    Public Record Office E134 2 Geo2 Mich 15
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    Wisbech Fenland Museum, Wisbech St. Peter's Churchwardens' Accounts and Orders of Vestry, 1768–1805, C
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    HAS: 171/35; MISC 118 – Accounts of Population in Ovenden
    HAS: 612, 614, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 665, 717, 718, 719+M – Documents relating to Waterhouse Charity
    HAS: 200+M – Ovenden Vestry Account Book
    HAS: 201+M – Ovenden Overseers' and Churchwardens' Accounts
    HAS: 202+M – Ovenden Overseers' Debt Book
    HAS: 203+M – Ovenden Overseers' Accounts; Receipts and Disbursements
    HAS: 204–207+M – Ovenden Overseers' Accounts; Monthly Accounts
    HAS: 208+M – Ovenden Overseers' and Workhouse Accounts
    HAS: 212–216+M – Ovenden Workhouse Day Books and Accounts
    HAS: 218–219+M – Ovenden Workhouse Accounts including Register of Persons in the Workhouse
    HAS: 225+M – Ovenden Workhouse Day Book
    HAS: 229+M – Ovenden Overseers' Accounts; Small Amounts of Money to the Poor
    HAS: 238+M – Ovenden Workhouse Rules and Orders
    HAS: 239/36+M – Ovenden Overseers' Correspondence
    HAS: 241+M – Ovenden Settlement Papers
    HAS: 254+M – Ovenden Overseers' Correspondence and Miscellaneous
    HAS: 255+M – Ovenden/Halifax Settlement Papers
    HAS: 256+M – Ovenden Overseers' Correspondence
    HAS: 258+M – Ovenden Miscellaneous Overseers' and Workhouse Accounts
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    HAS: 703 – Estate of James Whitworth
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    D/PUD: 9/11–13 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: 9/15–28 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: 9/32 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: B1/1/5 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: D39/E1 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: D39/H4 – List of Residents of Puddletown Manor
    D/PUD: D39/M10–11 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: D39/M2–3 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: D39/M6–7 – Puddletown Manor Misc. Records
    D/PUD: H4–5 – Puddletown Manorial Court Proceedings; Lists of Residents
    D/PUD: M6 – Puddletown Manor Survey, 1792
    D/PUD: Z1 – List of Those Receiving Beef or Money from Lady Orford
    LA 3/1/1/6 – Lists of Puddletown Inhabitants to Serve in Militia
    LA 3/11/16 – Lists of Persons Dwelling in Puddletown
    LA 3/5/12/2 – Lists of Persons Dwelling in Puddletown
    LA 3/7/15/5 – Lists of Persons Dwelling in Puddletown
    LA 4/1/1 – Dorchester Division Militia Lists
    PE/BF: OV1/3 – Blandford Forum Overseers' Accounts
    PE/BF: OV9/2 – Blandford Forum Overseers' Accounts
    PE/BF: OV9/4 – Blandford Forum Overseers' Accounts
    PE/BF: OV13/1 – Blandford Forum Overseers' Accounts
    PE/BF: VE1/1 – Blandford Forum Vestry Minutes
    PE/CHE: RE1/1 – Cheselburn Parish Register
    PE/CMO: VE1 – Charmouth Vestry Book
    PE/GOD: RE1/1 – Godmanstone Parish Register
    PE/MAL: OV1–2 – Marnhull Overseers' Accounts
    PE/PDH: OV1/1 – Piddlehinton Overseers' Accounts
    PE/PDH: RE1/3 – Piddlehinton Parish Register
    PE/PUD: OV3/1/1–18 – Puddletown Settlement Certificates
    PE/PUD: CW1/2–4 – Puddletown Churchwardens' Accounts
    PE/PUD: CW5/3 – Puddletown Churchwardens' Accounts
    PE/PUD: IN7/1–2 – Lists of Persons in Puddletown; Number of Baptisms and Burials
    PE/PUD: IN8/1 – List of Contents of Parish Box
    PE/PUD: IN5/1/1 – Tithes and Answers to Visitation Questions
    PE/PUD: OV1/1 – OV1/41 – Puddletown Overseers' Accounts and Vouchers
    PE/PUD: OV1/63 – Promissory Note to Puddletown Overseers
    PE/PUD: OV3/2/1–112 – Puddletown Settlement Examinations
    PE/PUD: OV3/3/1–53 – Removals from Puddletown
    PE/PUD: OV3/4/1–24 – Removals to Puddletown
    PE/PUD: OV3/5/1–5 – Orders of Sessions concerning Puddletown Settlements
    PE/PUD: OV4/1/1–19 – Puddletown Bastardy Bonds
    PE/PUD: OV7/2–5 – Puddletown Overseers' Correspondence
    PE/PUD: OV8/1 – Warrants Nominating Officers in Puddletown
    PE/PUD: OV8/2 – Parishioners Receiving Fuel
    PE/PUD: OV8/4 – List of Overseers' Papers in Parish Chest
    PE/PUD: RE1/1–5 – Parish Registers, including lists of those receiving Bradish's Charity
    PE/PUD: RE3/1–3 – Parish Registers
    PE/PUD: RE4/1–2 – Parish Registers
    PE/SEA: OV1/1 – Seaborough Overseers' Accounts
    PE/SHI: RE1/3 – Shillingstone Marriage Register
    PE/TOL: IN3/2 – Tolpuddle Incumbents' Papers
    PE/WAL: OV1/1 – Walditch Overseers' Accounts
    PE/WM: CP2/8 – Wimborne Minster Peculiar Court Case
    PE/WM: OV1/1/4 – Wimborne Overseers' Accounts
    PE/WM: OV1/1/6 – Wimborne Overseers' Accounts
    PE/WM: VE1/1 – Wimborne Vestry Minutes
    MIC/R/80; MIC/R/216; MIC/R/220; MIC/864; MIC/R/864; MIC/348; MIC/R/347; MIC/344; MIC/R/343; MIC/R/206; MIC/R/200; MIC/R/190; MIC/R/191; MIC/R/193; MIC/R/194; MIC/R/198; MIC/R/200; MIC/R/203; MIC/R/204; MIC/R/208; MIC/R/211; MIC/R/212; MIC/R/213; MIC/R/214; MIC/R/215; MIC/R/218; MIC/R/221; MIC/R/222; MIC/R/223; MIC/R/224; DA/W1708/2; DA/W/1708/12; DA/W/1763/35; MIC/R/347 – Puddletown wills, 1700–1800
    essex record office
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    D/P 299/10/2 – Terling Constable's Accounts
    D/P 299/8/1–5 – Terling Vestry Minutes
    D/P 299/5/1, 1A, 1B, 2 – Terling Churchwardens' Accounts
    D/P 299/21/2 – Terling Surveyors' Accounts
    D/P 299/28/3 – “A Diary of Weather” 1781–1784 kept by bailiff of Strutt family
    Q/SBb 358 – Quarter Sessions; presentments etc., at Epiphany Sessions 1795
    Q/SMg27 – Essex Session Book 1794–1797
    Q/SO 16 – Essex Order Book 1795–1798
    T/R 60/1–2 – Terling and Fairstead Parish Registers
    D/DRa F 14/3 – Letters to John Strutt 1778
    D/DRa C9 – Letters to John Strutt
    D/DRa E16 – Pauper Census
    D/DRa E26 – Leaseholds of cottages including blacksmith's shop
    D/P 299/13/1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4 – Settlement certificates, removals, examinations
    A8743 (D/Q 57 addl) – Minutes of Henry Smith's Charity
    D/ACV9a – 1683–1708 Parochial Visitation
    Q/SBb 58/2 – Application for License for Dissenters' Meeting House, 1713
    D/P 299/12/4 – “An Account of the Population of Terling in Essex, begun to be taken the 10th Day of March 1801”
    T/P 195/10 – Holman MSS: The History of Terling
    T/P 87 – John Strutt's agreement to buy estate at Terling
    D/P 310/12/2–5 – Fairstead Parish Book
    D/P 30/18/7 – Witham Vestry Minutes
    D/DRa F50 – Fairstead Correspondence etc
    D/DRa F38 – Part of Fairstead Listing of Inhabitants
    D/DRa E72/1–3 – Fairstead Vicar's Correspondence
    D/DBe E51 – North Ockenden Lists of Poor
    D/P 94/11/1 – Chelmsford Vestry Minutes, including Pauper Lists
    D/P 94/12/11 – Chelmsford Overseers' Accounts
    D/P 119/8/2–3 – Weathersfield Vestry Minutes
    D/P 137/8/1 – Great Leighs Vestry Minutes
    D/P 30/16/7 – Witham Papers (including letters regarding pauper settlements)
    D/P 35/8/1 – Little Baddow Parish Book
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