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Content: Folios 307-315. Letter from George Spencer, Clerk to the Guardians of the Keighley Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, informing the Board that due to continued depression there are many able bodied person only partially employed, with the guardians having no means of finding employment for them, and, therefore, providing them with relief. Pages from a relief order book giving the names of all those receiving relief in Haworth during the quarter ending 21 March 1854. In all cases relief was required due to want of work. A distinction is made between union and parish charges. Jonus Hey, Paul Spencer, James Spencer, Abraham Preston, Michael Appleyard, David Hey, John Greenwood,[William Blizard], all of Haworth. John Brown of Sutton. Greenwood Mitchell, John Fletcher, John Binns, John Sharp, Timothy Holmes, Henry Sunderland, [Joseph Crabtree], James Dawson, Mr Parker, Edward Holmes, Joseph Utley, Thomas Feather, James Sutcliffe, John Hartley, Joseph Brigg, Pickles Brigg, Mr Wright, Timothy Hey, Janus Burns, John Kay, James Feather, John Whitehouse, Thomas Pickles, George Mitchell all of Haworth. Sutton: John Walton, Edward Walton, of Sutton. Pages from a relief order book giving the names of all those receiving relief in the Keighley Poor Law Union during the quarter ending 21 March 1854. Joseph Moorhouse, John Wood, Thomas Binns, Anthony Hartley, Patrick Davitt, Mark Welsh, Anthony Hartley, Robert Waterhouse, Matthew Welsh, Augustus A Hearn, James Kelly, John Hardman, John Feather, [Procter ], Patrick Kennedy, Matthew Welsh, Thomas Constantine, Constantine King, William Wardman, Martin Gordon, Michael Hanley, John Conway, John Gill, [Bernard Movely], Patrick Durkin, John Knight, Luke O Donnell, Patrick Moore, James Wigglesworth, George Michell, Patrick Jennings, Patrick Maguiness, Patrick Durkin, John Durkin, James Murphy, Thomas Welsh, Anthony Norey, John Welsh, John A Donnell, James Moody, [Patrick Gollacer], Michael Welsh, [Peter O Flinn], Eli Helliwell, Thomas Thorner, Septimus Knowles, Frederick Green, Thomas Heaps, Joseph Horten, James Holmes, Thomas Asquith, Thomas Bolton, Thomas Constantine, all of Keighley. None settled: Thomas Wilkinson (Cowling), Walter Lund (Coniston Cold), Dobson Pickles (Barnoldswick), William Sharp (Barrowsford), John Hargreaves (Cowling), Henry Townsend (Thorton), all of Keighley. Further pages from a relief order book giving the names of all those receiving relief in the Keighley Poor Law Union during the quarter ending 21 March 1854. John Heaton, Thomas Rhodes, Timothy Smith, John Hudson, Luke Smith, James Burton, Timothy Hoyle, John Speak, John Thompson, John Judson, John Bradley, John Emmott, Samual Milner, John Wilson, David Haggas, Cyrus Barnes, Michael Lawson, John Moore, [ Midgley], Joseph Mitchell, John Mitchell, Joseph Holmes, Silverwood Sunderland, John Moore, William Holmes, Timothy Haigh, Whitaker Smith, William Hall, Abraham Mitchell, Robert Smith Murton, John Lilley, William Michell, John Smith, Benjamin Hartley, [Robert Riley], Michael Pickles, Joseph Waddington, Michael Holmes, Thomas Hindle, Joseph Pickles, John Earnshaw, all of Keighley. Signed George Spencer, Clerk to the Guardians of the Keighley Poor Law Union. The guardians seek the approval and allowance of the Board in pursuant of the out-door labour test order, article 10. Annotated: note by H B Farnall [Harry Bernard Farnall, Poor Law Inspector] that list contains 135 names, with total number of persons constituting these cases 739. 105 cases are partially employed, 30 with no work. The lists are imperfect, with some omissions and no time given for duration of relief. Relief to be sanctioned, with guardians requested to find employment for paupers wholly out of work. Paper Number: 5221/1854. Poor Law Union Number 571. Counties: Yorkshire West Riding.
Date: 7 Feb 1854
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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