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Date: 1950 Jan 19-1951 Jan 18
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Folios 20-21. Letter from Messrs W and E Willoby [William Willoby and Edward Willoby],...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/8979/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 25 January 1845
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- Folios 20-21. Letter from Messrs W and E Willoby [William Willoby and Edward Willoby], Clerks to the Guardians of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union, to Edwin Chadwick, [Secretary to the Poor Law Commission], regarding the outstanding debt and parish property in Tweedmouth Parish. They acknowledge receipt of the Commission's letter of 11 January, Paper number: 17086/A/1844, and state that the debts were contracted by the parish officers in 1829 and 1830, and secured on a promissory note to Mrs Bell [Ann Bell, widow, Tweedmouth] for £120, signed by George Skelly, [butcher, Tweedmouth] Robert Smith and John Alexander, Overseers of the Poor. The last interest on the note was paid by the parish on 3 December 1836. A sum of £100 was also secured to John Duncan, junior, [Collector of Poor Rates and shoemaker, Tweedmouth] the last interest on which was paid on 3 August 1836. Since then some of the largest parish ratepayers have reduced the original debt of £220 to £115, such as £90 due to Skelly and others and £25 to Duncan, junior, as in the ratepayers' resolution sent to the Commission. Regarding the Commission's request for information on what the Guardians have done with the Tweedmouth workhouse, they state that the property was twice offered for sale unsuccessfully. The Guardians' minutes of 6 August 1839 recommended that Tweedmouth parish should bear the expense of the release to Mr Thompson, [James Thompson, farmer, Shoreswood Hall] the mortgagee, following the application of his solicitor, but that no release was executed and that the mortgagee is now in possession of the workhouse. Annotated: 3 February 1845 by W G L [William Golden Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commission], that the Commission wishes to know why the parish officers incurred the debts in 1839 and 1840. Paper number: 1045/A/1845. See also Paper number: 299/B/1838. Poor Law Union Number 325. Counties: Town and County of Berwick-upon-Tweed and Northumberland.
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