Folios 161-163. Letter from William E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield...

Folios 161-163. Letter from William E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing a statement of able bodied men, to whom the board has ordered relief, in addition to wages they receive from the Duke of Portland, on the grounds stated in a previous letter, dated 5 June 1847. He requests the Commission's ratification of the relief.

Also enclosed is a list of names of men, stating whether with wife, age and the number of children under the age of 16, all from the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield:

William Wright, wife, 29 years, 6 children.

George Bonser, wife, 44 years, 3 children.

John Yeomans, wife, 45 years, 1 child.

George Wakefield, wife, 27 years, 2 children.

Joseph Bean, wife, 31 years, 5 children.

John Lindley, wife, 27 years, 1 child.

Edward Wright, wife, 23 years, 1 child.

Samuel Coggin, wife, 29 years, 3 children.

Joseph Wakefield, wife 52 years, 2 children.

Thomas Marshall, wife, 52 years, 6 children.

Henry Chambers, wife, 35 years 5 children.

James Dove, no wife, 33 years, 3 children.

John Bennett, wife, no age, 2 children.

Jeremiah Morley, wife, 45 years, 6 children.

George Smith, wife, 40 years, 7 children.

Edward Shaw, wife, 49 years, 3 children.

Samuel Dove, wife, 25 years, 1 child.

Robert Dove, wife, 31 years, 1 child.

William Button, wife, 26 years, 1 child.

George Hatton, wife, 36 years, 7 children.

William Sansome, wife, 41 years, 5 children.

William Haslam, wife, 33 years, 3 children.

Charles Bramley, wife, 40 years, 5 children.

Samuel Straw, wife, 24 years, 1 child.

[4 names on the list are illegible]

Annotated: sanction.

Paper Number: 15050/B/1847.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.