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| Folios 39-53. Letter from Edward Gulson, [Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], Nottingham to the Poor Law Commission regarding the Basford Poor Law Union dissolution and reconstitution. He refers to his report on the Southwell and Bingham districts. He reports on a meeting of the Visitor and Guardians of Basford Incorporation, which has a population of 55,000, where there was much opposition to dissolution as the parishes liked their system of distribution of the poor rate and had no able-bodied man receiving relief at the time of the meeting. The list of averages in the table that he encloses show the low standard that the poor have been provided for. Most of the workers in the district are labourers in manufacture in Nottingham and its vicinity. People from Arnold, Basford and others are principally in the lace trade, whilst in Lambley and Carlton they are mainly weavers of gloves and stockings. There were 24 parishes originally in the Basford Incorporation, now there are 40. The workhouse was built on six acres of purchased land. It can hold 250 people and for a small sum be altered to accommodate 350 people in accordance with the Poor Law Commission workhouse rules. In the new constitution there will be 20 new parishes, population of 10,297, averages of about £4,000 with 17 removed. Working classes would suffer from any fluctuations in the manufacturing processes. He proposes that Kirkby in Ashfield is retained in the Basford Poor Law Union rather than being in the Mansfield Poor Law Union. List of parishes and their averages in the Basford Poor Law Union declared 2 May 1836. They are categorised firstly in the parishes of the Basford Incorporation dissolved from 23 April 1836, then sub-catergorised as following: parishes not in the Basford Incorporation; Bradmore, Codnor Park, [Derbyshire], Felley, no guardian, Newstead, Cossall, Nuttall [Nuthall], no guardian, Trowell, Wollaton, Burton, Bridgeford [Bridgford] No Guardian, Bunney [Bunny], Barton, Carlton, Clifton, Colwick, Gedling, Gotham, Ruddington, Stoke, Wilford and locally united: Annesley, Arnold, Basford, Beeston, Bilborough, Bulwell, Calverton, Eastwood, Greasley, Hucknall, Ilkestone [Ilkeston], [Derbyshire], Lambley, Selston, Shipley, [Derbyshire], Strelley, Thrumpton, Woodborough, Papplewick. Associated: Codnor, [Derbyshire], Gamston, Heanor [Derbyshire], Kirkby, Linby. In the Bingham Poor Law Union declared 27 April 1836: United: Cotgrave, Radcliffe; Associated: Cropwell Bishop, Cropwell Butler, Holme Pierpoint, Plumtree, Tollerton In the Southwell Poor Law Union declared [no date given] United: Farnsfield, Oxton, Epperstone; Associated: Bilsthorpe, Caythorpe, Edingley, Gunthorpe, Lowdham. In the Mansfield Poor Law Union declared 29 June 1836: United: Blidworth; Associated: Sutton in Ashfield. List of Parishes separated from Basford Incorporation and joined to Bingham Union: Cotgrave, Caythorpe, Cropwell Bishop, Cropwell Butler, Holme Pierrepoint, Plumtree, Radcliffe, Tollerton. Typewritten alphabetical and chronological list of the 40 parishes with three columns of amounts beside each name, headed 'Clothing and Maintenance'; establishment charges; divided from treasurer's fund. Also, in the margin, handwritten the names of the guardians of each parish as follows: Annesley, Charles Limb; Arnold, Uriah Wood; Basford, George Farrand; Beeston, William Roberts; Bilborough, Henry Towle; Bilsthorpe, Hage; Blidworth, James Wilson; Bulwell, Alfred Faulconbrigg [Faulconbridge]; Calverton, William Ward; Caythorpe, Miles Stapleton [Staypleton]; Codnor cum Loscoe, [Derbyshire], James Woolley; Cotgrave, Joshua Mann Junior; Cropwell Bishop, George Smith; Cropwell Butler, William Dixon; Eastwood, Robert Bullock Junior; Edingley, John Lucas; Epperstone, Horner; Farnsfield, William Durman [Denman]; Gamstone [Gamston], John Lowe; Greasley, David Toule; Gunthorpe, Thomas Beecroft; Heanor [Derbyshire], William Gregory; Holme Pierpoint [Holme Pierrepoint], William Lowe; Hucknall Torkard, Jonathan Shaw; Ilkeston, [Derbyshire], George Small; Kirkby, William Thompson; Lambley, Thomas Tomlinson; Lowdham, Ambrose Franks; Linby, John Hardstaff; Oxton, John Richardson; Papplewick, J Riley; Plumtree, Thomas Beastall; Ratcliffe [Radcliffe], R Butler; Selstone [Selston], Bather; Shipley, [Derbyshire], John Hogg; Strelly [Strelley], [Stephenson]; Sutton in Ashfield, James Lindley; Thrumpton, G Galder; Tollerton, Barlow; Woodborough, Lee. Annotated: parishes gone from Basford to Southwell: Lowdham, £80 to pay; Gunthorpe, £61 to pay; Epperstone, £132 to pay; [Oxton], £184 to pay. Regulations of [workhouses] and of unions for Mr Smith. Annotated: parishes separated from Basford Incorporation and joined to the Bingham Poor Law Union. Annotated: money to be raised to go elsewhere. Poor Law Union Number 334. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. |
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