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Records of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union

Catalogue reference: C/GP 7

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This record is about the Records of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union dating from 1775 - 1948.

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Reference
C/GP 7
Title
Records of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union
Date
1775 - 1948
Description

The following parishes comprised the union:

Ashby with Oby

Billockby

Burgh St. Margaret & St. Mary

Caistor

Clippsby

Filby

Hemsby

Martham

Mautby

Ormsby St. Margaret with Scratby

Ormsby St. Michael

Repps cum Bastwick

Rollesby

Runham

Somerton East

Somerton West

Stokesby with Herringby

Thurne

Tringby

Winterton

Related material

<p>For records of this body (including administration of Lingwood Public Assistance Institution and boarding - out of children) see C/GC 3</p>

Held by
Norfolk Record Office
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>East and West Flegg Poor Law Union</corpname>
Physical description
36 Files
Immediate source of acquisition

Records received by the Norfolk Record Office on 19 November 1968 (C/GP7/2) and on an unknown date

Administrative / biographical background

This union was incorporated under the terms of An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of East and West Flegg 15 Geo III, cap. 13. 1775 A House of Industry was erected at Rollesby in the following year and was subsequently enlarged in 1818 and 1834. According to White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845 "The dietary system now in use has been introduced by the Poor Law Commissioners who have here no further authority than the New Poor Law gives them in similar incorporations".

East and West Flegg Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 3 in 1930.

Copies information

C/GP7/1-11 are available on microform.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f33c8221-9540-4ea7-a908-3bddd1524537/

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Records of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union