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See MH 82/12
Catalogue reference: MH 82/46
Date: 1950 Jan 19-1951 Jan 18
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Folios 13-15. Letter from Joseph Boulton, Assistant Overseer of the Poor, Burslem,...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/11196/4
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This record is about the Folios 13-15. Letter from Joseph Boulton, Assistant Overseer of the Poor, Burslem,... dating from 22 February 1836 in the series Local Government Board and predecessors: Correspondence with Poor Law Unions and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 22 February 1836
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- Folios 13-15. Letter from Joseph Boulton, Assistant Overseer of the Poor, Burslem, to the Poor Law Commission seeking instructions in bastardy cases. A girl in workhouse known to be a 'harlot' with two illegitimate children by a strolling player, two other girls little better and a fourth applying for admittance, all destitute although previously able to earn a living. Without parish aid they would have died and now too engrossed in their children to find work. The overseers wish to know if they are obliged to keep these women in the workhouse. Several girls in parish with one child each of 'better morals' but applying for cash payments to stay out of workhouse. Overseers wish to know if they must make payments and if so whether they can recover the allowances from the putative fathers. [Folios 13-14 are year guards etc.] Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
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- English
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