[WED]Maternity bag?

[Liz Jones]

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Hi everyone!
 
I was at the Somerset Record Office yesterday looking at the records of what is catalogued as the records of a "?Friendly Society". The names listed are all female and detail the loan of a bag, numbered 1, 2 or 3, which was loaned to the named woman for on average about a month, and then returned. Dates of loan and return are listed, as is the condition the bag was returned in - clean, not clean, etc. There is also a record of monies paid, usually around 2s.The catalogue entry says it is "also used as account book of a maternity club with articles lent for lying-in" - presumably this is the bag referred to. Does anyone know what the bag would have contained? 
 
Many thanks
Liz


www.lizweb.net - Researching Fisher in Wedmore, Denman in North Curry, Thomas in Minehead/Dunster (all are villages in Somerset) and Willsman in Devon)

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<DIV><FONT face=arial>Hi everyone!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial>I was at the Somerset Record Office yesterday looking at the records of what is catalogued as the records of a "?Friendly Society".&nbsp;The names listed are all female and detail the loan of&nbsp;a bag, numbered 1, 2 or 3, which was loaned to the named woman for on average about a month, and then returned. Dates of loan and return are listed, as is the condition the bag was returned in - clean, not clean, etc. There is also a record of monies paid, usually around 2s.The catalogue entry says it is "<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=2>also used as account book of a maternity club with articles lent for lying-in" - presumably this is the bag referred to. Does anyone know what the bag would have contained?&nbsp;</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Many thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Liz</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR><BR><DIV><A href="http://www.lizweb.net">www.lizweb.net</A> - Researching Fisher in Wedmore, Denman in North Curry, Thomas in Minehead/Dunster (all are villages in Somerset) and Willsman in Devon)</DIV>
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