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Catalogue reference: MH 82/46
Date: 1950 Jan 19-1951 Jan 18
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Folios 78-79. Letter from Thomas Stevens, [Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], at Dartington,...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/11196/25
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- 3 January 1838
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- Folios 78-79. Letter from Thomas Stevens, [Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], at Dartington, to George Nicholls, [Poor Law Commissioner], reporting that he has considered the request from Wolstanton again remembering the respectable status of those signing and their objections at the time of his visit as well as their promise to fully support the operation of the law. He singles out Smith Child, Mr Davenport of Tunstall, Mr Wood, Banker, the Woods, Manufacturers, Mr Alcock, Manufacturer of Burslem 'very cordially inclined', Mr Baker, Spirit Merchant (very active in parish affairs), Mr Hughes, Overseer of the Poor and Mr Ward, Attorney: 'all promised to do their best ... when the union is declared', despite not wanting a union. The Newcastle under Lyme memorial came from a very full vestry meeting and recommends what Stevens has proposed. Thus the question is whether any of the parishes should be left un-nunited, for if one is so must the other two. This is not what the legislature requires or what is supported in Lord Denman's judgement in the Whitechapel case. The Commission is bound to create unions unless very special circumstances determine otherwise, such as large population or 'some other cause as in the case of Stoke upon Trent'. In the Newcastle union case the population will scarcely exceed that of Stoke upon Trent, there is no sufficient workhouse (the best at Burslem only fit for two classes of poor) and if the three parishes were left independent three new workhouses would be required whose attendant costs would not be at all justified. Consent of parishes is not a pre-condition of union and the Newcastle memorialists admit that there is room for improvement. When they have tried union they will be grateful for the change. Paper number: 183/C/1838. Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
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