Catalogue description Content: Folios 328-329. A letter from Charles Bond to the Poor Law Commission...

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Details of MH 12/2098/177
Reference: MH 12/2098/177
Description:
Content: Folios 328-329. A letter from Charles Bond to the Poor Law Commission regarding the number of wives and families of transported convicts, currently resident in the Axminster Poor Law Union. Included with the letter is a table containing details of three families. Listed are the names of three women, Charlotte Gudge, Mary Pyke and Sarah Wood. Also listed are the names of two husbands Samuel Pyke and James Wood, also the number and ages of the children in each family, as shown below. Charlotte Gudge has three children, a son under 7 years of age and a son and daughter between 7 and 14 years. There are six children in the Pyke family two are boys under 7 years of age and the remaining four consist of one boy and three girls, between the ages of 7 and 13 years. In the Wood family there are four children, two boys and one girl, all aged between 7 and 13 years of age. Charles Bond explains, that the information listed in the table is all that he had been able to obtain. Annotated: Mr Lumley 19 June 1846. Paper Number: 7387/A/1846. Poor Law Union Number 76. Counties: Devon and Dorset.
Date: 17 June 1846
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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