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Details of MH 12/10322/265
Reference: MH 12/10322/265
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Content: Folios 432-438. Draft letter from the Poor Law Commission to J Rees-Mogg [John Rees-Mogg] and W Rees-Mogg [William Rees-Mogg], Clerks to the Guardians of the Clutton Poor Law Union, acknowledging their letter of 5 April 1847 concerning the death of Joyce Bryant and enclosing a copy of the Commission's letter to Reverend George Cornwall, of Publow, who had first brought the case to their notice. Enclosed: copy of a letter to Reverend George Cornwall, of Publow, referring to his letter of 23 February 1847 which asked the Commission to investigate the conduct of the relieving officers of Keynsham and Clutton Poor Law Unions in the case of Joyce Bryant, an aged pauper, whose inquest stated that she died 'from starvation and want of food', she having refused offers to go into the workhouse. Having read all the depositions, the Commission consider that the facts are that she was receiving out-relief until October 1846 when this was stopped through the Poor Removal Act; she then moved between Bristol, Nailsea and Pensford, where her daughters lived, and Compton Dando, her parish of settlement, and on several occasions applied to the relieving officers for help, which she was given from time to time on their own responsibility. Jane Franks stated that she wanted for nothing in her last days; she was prone to asthma and Mary Price pointed out that she set out from Publow to Keynsham on the coldest day of the year; the Commission feels that this must have been a major factor in her death. Paper Number: 4262/B/1847. 6854/1847. Poor Law Union Number 374. Counties: Somerset.
Date: 28 Apr 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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