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Series
Poor Law Commission and successors: Extracts from Minutes and Abstracts of Correspondence
Catalogue reference: MH 4
What's it about?
MH 4
This series consists of bound and indexed volumes containing monthly abstracts (and in some cases complete copies) of correspondence received and issued by the Poor Law Commissioners and successors. There is a considerable overlap in the first...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MH 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Poor Law Commission and successors: Extracts from Minutes and Abstracts of Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1839-1879
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of bound and indexed volumes containing monthly abstracts (and in some cases complete copies) of correspondence received and issued by the Poor Law Commissioners and successors. There is a considerable overlap in the first three volumes. Numbers three to five were the copies of E Adrian, a clerk to the Commissioners.
From July 1839 to March 1840 these abstracts and copies are duplicated and entitled Extracts from Minutes. There is then a break until December 1840, when the series starts again in printed form. From June 1841 the series is entitled Abstract of Correspondence.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Poor Law Board, 1847-1871
- Poor Law Commission, 1834-1847
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Poverty
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10847/
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