Catalogue description Content: Folios 117-121. Letter from Philip Gurdon, Cranworth Rectory, to Edwin...

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Details of MH 12/8475/50
Reference: MH 12/8475/50
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Content: Folios 117-121. Letter from Philip Gurdon, Cranworth Rectory, to Edwin Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing forms necessary to enable the parish of Cranworth to borrow £50 for emigration purpose from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners. James Hubbard, his wife and nine children are ready to sail to New York [America]. Enclosed are three emigration forms: A, B and C. A meeting to be held of the ratepayers of Cranworth on 7 April 1837, signed Philip Gurdon, Minister, John Aylmer, Churchwarden, James Coleman and Robert Cobb Overseers. The Meeting agreed to borrow £50 to defray the immigrants' expenses, to be repaid in equal annual instalments of £10 by the ratepayers. Rates for the relief of the poor have cost £272 14sduring the past three years. Annotated: Mr Parker. Issue order, 11 April 1837. Paper Number: 3221/A/1837. Poor Law Union Number 302. Counties: Norfolk.
Date: 11 Apr 1837
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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