Catalogue description Content: Folio 486. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the Axminster...

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Reference: MH 12/2095/321
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Content: Folio 486. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the Axminster Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, headed parish of Colyton, 'Emigration'.' He reports that he has been requested by the Axminster guardians, to inform the Commission that the board has been told that two brothers named Scobell in the parish of Colyton have decided to emigrate to Canada and intend to settle there. As their sister, Mary Hawkins, a pauper, is widowed with three children, these two men are willing to take their two nephews and their niece with them and Bond therefore wishes to apply for the sanction of the Commission for the uncles to do this, and also for the authority to raise a sum of money to defray the costs of emigration, either from the parish rates or by borrowing, using the rates as security. Bond would be glad if the Commission could reply 'within a post or two'. Paper Number: 4580/B/1838. Poor Law Union Number 76. Counties: Devon and Dorset.
Date: 11 June 1838
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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