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Folio(s) 207-208. Letter from W E Goodacre [William E Goodacre], Clerk to the Guardians...

Catalogue reference: MH 12/9365/149

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This record is about the Folio(s) 207-208. Letter from W E Goodacre [William E Goodacre], Clerk to the Guardians... dating from 1856 May 12 in the series Local Government Board and predecessors: Correspondence with Poor Law Unions and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MH 12/9365/149
Date
1856 May 12
Description

Folio(s) 207-208. Letter from W E Goodacre [William E Goodacre], Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, enclosing the application for a paid collector for Mansfield Woodhouse, which had inadvertently been included in another letter. Enclosed is the application signed by Mansfield Woodhouse churchwardens George Robinson and R B Newton, overseers James Timons and Alfred Strutt. They ask the board of guardians to make a request to the Poor Law Board for the appointment of a poor rate collector at a salary of £25 per annum. J S Housley, Guardian, apologises for his absence at the board's meeting on 1 May 1856, but fully agrees with the application.Annotated: a collector is much needed, send usual form of application.

Also annotated: appointment of collector.

Paper Number: 17448/1856.

Poor Law Union Number 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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