CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.
Andrew Charlton of Apley, by will proved 1617, left £20 stock
to provide clothing in Wellington, Wombridge,
and Preston upon the Weald Moors parishes (fn. 12) but
it was lost by 1787. (fn. 13)
Richard Steventon (d. 1659) (fn. 14) left a rent charge
of £10 which in 1830 and 1861 was being distributed in clothing. (fn. 15) It was redeemed in 1868 and
by 1884 the income was given to the Wellington
Clothing Club. (fn. 16) In 1962 the income was £8 6s.
8d. (fn. 17) Walter Marigold (by will dated 1666) and
William Phillipps left a rent charge of £1, which
was distributed in cash in 1830 (fn. 18) and bread in 1861
and 1889, (fn. 19) and was last received in 1937. (fn. 20) Roger
Pavier (or Pavior), by will dated 1745, (fn. 21) left a rent
charge of £4; in 1830 it was distributed in cash to
aged poor (fn. 22) and in 1861 and 1889 in bread. (fn. 23) In
1772 there were unendowed almshouses in the
churchyard, said to have been founded by one
Steventon, (fn. 24) which were allotted to paupers by the
parish. They were demolished when the new
church was built, and the parish put up new ones
on the churchyard's northern edge; they were
administered in the same way in 1830. (fn. 25) Standing
in 1854 (fn. 26) they had been demolished by 1882 (fn. 27) and
a charity was endowed from sale of the materials. (fn. 28)
The income was 13s. 4d. in 1962. (fn. 29) The four
preceding charities were jointly administered by
1897, when their beneficial area was redefined as
that of the then Wellington urban district and the
then Wellington Rural civil parish. (fn. 30) They were
afterwards known as the Wellington NonEcclesiastical Charities. (fn. 31) In 1964 the three surviving benefactions were united as the Charity of
Richard Stevinton and Others, (fn. 32) whose income in
1975 was £15 (fn. 33) distributed in cash. (fn. 34)
A rent charge of 10s. left before 1787 by one
Leeke was lost by 1830. (fn. 35)
In 1830 four or five cottages opposite the pound
in Back Lane were said to have been built a
century earlier as almshouses at the cost of one
Icke. They were unendowed and by 1830 were
occupied as private dwellings. (fn. 36)
Mrs. Margarette Noneley, by will proved 1852,
left £450 stock (fn. 37) for members of the Church of
England. (fn. 38) In 1861 it was distributed in clothing
to worshippers at All Saints' and Christ Church. (fn. 39)
The income in 1910 was £12 11s. 4d. James
Oliver, by will proved 1867, left £225 stock (fn. 40) for
bread doles in the parishes of All Saints and
Christ Church; in 1910 the income was £5 19s.
8d. William Roberts, by will proved 1900, left
stock for residents of Watling Street township; in
1910 the income was £7. Elizabeth Taylor, by will
proved 1906, left stock for residents of the town of
Wellington; the income was £38 4s. 8d. in 1910.
In 1910 administration of the four preceding
charities was combined as the Wellington United
Charities. Their income in 1975 was £200 (fn. 41) and in
1981 it was distributed both in cash and in
kind. (fn. 42)
Henry Parker, by will proved 1898, left stock to
provide food, clothing, and blankets in Christ
Church parish; (fn. 43) the income in 1975 was £4. Mrs.
Elizabeth Hiatt (d. 1909) (fn. 44) left stock for eleemosynary use in All Saints' parish and other stock for
religious education or the relief of people associated with New Street Methodist chapel; in 1975
the former charity yielded £2, the latter £4. Henry
Joseph Jones, by will proved 1953, left stock for
relief in Christ Church parish and other stock for
people associated with New Street Methodist
chapel. In 1975 the former charity yielded £11,
the latter £13.
After the National Health Service began the
funds of the Wellington dispensary (fn. 45) were used to
endow the Wellington and District Dispensary
Charity for the sick of Wellington, Dawley, and
Oakengates urban districts and Wellington rural
district. In 1975 the income was £69. (fn. 46)