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| Folios 336-344. Letter from Harry White, Clerk to the Guardians of the Blything Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, with list of enclosures. 1. Resolution passed on 21 April 1837 at the Bulchamp Workhouse regarding the placing of children, inmates of the workhouse and fit for servitude, together with drafts of Forms A, B and C. 2. Resolution passed regarding the apprenticing of William Thacker, Henstead, a bastard child named. Enclosure 1. William Girling, Guardian, Peasenhall, and Thomas Freeman, Guardian, Henham, to consider the placing of poor boys and girls, inmates of the workhouse, out at service. Any parish wishing to have a child removed from the workhouse and placed in service or as an apprentice should produce a certificate Form C signed by the chairman of the vestry and Form B to be signed by the party wishing to take the child into his service. Resolved that Forms A, B and C with a list of children to be sent to the Poor Law Commission. Form A. Notice of vestry meeting, time, place etc. Form B. Certification of person wishing to take child together with undertaking to provide board, washing, lodging and surgical attendance. Form C. Certification of a vestry meeting held and resolution to apply to the board of guardians for sanction in placing the said children. Outline of form providing the following information: name of child, age, settlement, name of master, residence, occupation, period of service. List of children in the workhouse of a proper age to be bound out. Name; age; how long in workhouse; whether its parents are alive or dead or which is alive; if either of them are alive what circumstances prevent him or her exercising his or her natural guardianship of the child; whether in the opinion of the guardians the parent or parents thus living ought to be [responsible for their natural guardianship] concerning the child; if so on what grounds; Ellis Crisp, Orphan. John Youngman, admitted with parents, Both alive, being in the workhouse. Syer Easy, admitted at the death of her father, mother living, re-married and family by present husband who refuses to maintain him. Henry Andrews, illegitimate, both alive. Robert Kemp. George Rous, illegitimate, mother dead, putative father pay according to orders of bastardy. Richard Watts, admitted at death of father, mother alive, inability to support through poverty. William Napthune, admitted at death of father. Charles Howard, destitution, mother dead, father transported. Joshua Tuthill, admitted with parents. James Mills, orphan. Edward Rackham, admitted with parents, both living. Henry Page, orphan. James Dammants, deserted, mother dead, father enlisted for a soldier, absence from England. Henry Howard, orphan. William Jessup, destitution, mother dead and father in the workhouse. Robert Mayhew, orphan. Maria Cable, destitution, father dead, mother living. Mary Bolton, deserted, mother dead, father absconded. Caroline Haylock, admitted with father. Mary Osborne, destitution. Sarah Morris, admitted with father, mother dead. Mary Ann Dyball, admitted with mother, father absconded. The mother and 4 children in workhouse. Phoeba Dyball, admitted with mother (same family as above). Eliza Adams, destitution. Sarah Spall, destitution, mother dead, father abandoned her. Mary Ann Jessup, destitution, mother dead, father in the house. Mary Balls, father dead, mother living in great poverty. Enclosure 2: copy of the resolution passed regarding the report of Samuel Robinson, Guardian, Henstead. The clerk should write to the Poor Law Commission requesting sanction for 1s 3d per week to be paid to William Hensby who is willing to board and educate a bastard child named William Thacker, aged 12 years and belonging to Henstead, until the sum of £5 has been expended. The sum of 1s 3d is now paid by the putative father Charles Keable; can he legally be made to pay the sum? Annotated: the course appears to be legal assuming the bastard was born before the act [Poor Law Amendment Act]. Paper Number: 3708/A/1837 and 3709/A/1837. Poor Law Union Number 432. Counties: Suffolk. |
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