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Folios 32-33. Letter from W and E Willoby [William Willoby and Edward Willoby], Clerks...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/8979/25
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- 12 February 1845
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- Folios 32-33. Letter from 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 outstanding claims in Tweedmouth parish. They acknowledge receipt of the letter of 5 February, Paper number: 1045/A/1845, requesting information on how the parish officers incurred the debts. They have obtained the following information from John Anderson [Richardson's Stead], Assistant Overseer in the parish of Tweedmouth when the debts were contracted: John Anderson succeeded Mr Halliburton [Alexander Halliburton] as Assistant Overseer at the latter end of 1826. When the accounts were made in April 1827, £400 was due to Halliburton for monies spent by him for the general purposes of the parish. The select vestry granted a promissory note to Halliburton for £300 payable at £100 every six months. £200 of this was paid from the parish funds, but in 1829 it was necessary to borrow £100 from John Duncan, junior [Collector of Poor Rates and shoemaker of Tweedmouth] to pay the third instalment. Subsequently they borrowed £120 from James Thompson [farmer, Shoreswood Hall] to pay Halliburton and for other purposes. At the latter end of 1829 the then overseers - Skelly, [George Skelly, Butcher, Tweedmouth] Smith [Robert Smith] and Alexander, [John Alexander, Herring Curer, Spittal] -borrowed £120 from Mrs Bell [Ann Bell, widow, Tweedmouth] to pay off James Thompson. In 1832 the money intended to meet those debts of £220 was spent in dealing with the cholera outbreak and a further £130 on repairing the parish workhouse. As a result the rate was so increased that the overseers found it impossible, up to 1836, to pay the claims. They enclose their letter to the Commission of 25 January which had been sent unsigned [not included]. Annotated: 14 February 1845, [to] Lumley [William Golden Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commission]. Further annotated: 21 February W G L [William Golden Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commission], to reply that the Commissioners are prepared to issue an order to liquidate the debts but require to see the securities. They note that the resolution refers to the payment to Skelly and Smith the debt which appears due to Mrs Bell. Paper number: 1852/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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