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Catalogue reference: MH 82/46
Date: 1950 Jan 19-1951 Jan 18
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Folios 220-226. Letter from Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/11734/139
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- Folios 220-226. Letter from Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing a statement of the circumstances of the Widow Pinkney [Sophia Pinkney] which had been previously sent to the Poor Law Commission on 22 July 1839 and returned to White with another communication on 27 August 1839. Statement on circumstances of Pinkney of Stutton, belonging to Rumburgh: 1. At the meeting of the Blything Board of Guardians 1 July 1839, the reply from the Poor Law Commission dated 25 June 1839 was read, requesting that before an opinion was given, the Samford Union should provide information and a medical certificate; 2. On 2 July 1839, Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union, wrote to Mr Catchpole [William Catchpole], Clerk to the Samford Union at the Tattington [Tattingstone] Workhouse, requesting information; 3. On 11 July 1839, Catchpole, Clerk to the Samford Incorporation, replied that the woman [Sophia Pinkney] was 25 years old, was not disabled and did field work. Her three children were Mary Ann Pinkney, aged five, Harriet Pinkney, aged three, Samuel Pinkney, aged seven months. Since she moved from Rumburgh in December 1838, she had received four shillings weekly from the parish of Rumburgh; 4. On 15 July 1839, at a meeting of the Blything Guardians, it was ordered that the Rumburgh Churchwardens and Guardians should be summoned to produce accounts explaining from which funds the four shillings weekly came, as her [Sophia Pinkney] name does not appear in the relieving officers' books; 5. On 19 July 1839, Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union, summoned the Rumburgh Churchwardens and Guardians; 6. On 22 July 1839, a minute was passed recording that Mr Garrod, one of the Rumburgh overseers attended. He explained that on 29 January 1839, a private voluntary rate of one penny in the pound had been raised and collected by him. It appeared that this rate had been wilfully omitted from the audited accounts. It was agreed that a full statement of the conduct of the overseer should be submitted to the Poor Law Commission. Letter from Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, dated 22 July 1839 and stamped as received on 28 September 1839. Voluntary rate details and disbursements were enclosed: Disbursements January to April 1839: Widow Pinkney, Mr Smith's bill, Mr Cutts for Walker boy, Mr Fisher for Pinkney, Mr Ling for letter, Mr Smith for Pinkney and Garrod, [Overseer]. List of contribuors to voluntary rate raised for Pinkney - Thomas Ling, Chairman; G Oldrin, S Oldrin, Mrs Bowler, Mrs Reynolds, John Folkard, Jeremiah Barber, James Garruld, Mrs Hatten, John Wright, William Butcher, Matthew Green, Thomas Neal [Neale], Mrs Baldry, Robert Stockdale, Thomas Cracknell, James Prime, James Adams, William Garwood, James Harvey, William Banks, W Reynolds, M Reynolds, J Fairhead, Daniel Sayer, James Goldsmith, Thomas Howling, William Ball, William Winter, [Bloomfield Sivell], William Hunton, James Keable, William Chipperfield, Mrs Sallows, [Baker], William Garrud, William Sadler, Mrs Warren, William Reynolds and Samuel Aldis. Annotated: 26 September 1839, Poor Law Commission intends record opinions on the evil of private rates. Annotated: 27 August 1839, Rumburgh, Blything Union, case of Widow Pinkney, received back from the Poor Law Commission without letter. The rate was included in the averages for the last three years. H W [Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union]. Annotated: 23 September 1839, to be returned H White, Clerk. Paper Number: 6986/B/1839. Poor Law Union Number 432. Counties: Suffolk.
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