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(See also CO 321/7/48)...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/7/51
Date: 1875 Dec 11
(See also CO 321/7/48) John Pope Hennessy, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, St Vincent No. 85. Folios 747-748.
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Forwards first annual report of the Poor Law Board, 1880-1881, which gives a full...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/43/50
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This record is about the Forwards first annual report of the Poor Law Board, 1880-1881, which gives a full... dating from 1881 May in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1881 May
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Forwards first annual report of the Poor Law Board, 1880-1881, which gives a full picture of current poor law provision and defects in the system. With statistics showing numbers of persons receiving in-door and out-door relief by parish, returns of parochial officers appointed under the Poor Relief Act 1880, and return of parochial funds expended on poor relief. Also gives details of two individual cases: that of Grig Munveal, a former master mason now 'poor, aged, blind and destitute'; and that of a 'pauper woman', Mary Jane Boxill, allegedly refused assistance to bury her dead child Angelina.
William Robinson, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, Barbados No. 66, folios 596-609
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 8540/1881
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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