Catalogue description Content: Folios 127-128. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the...

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Details of MH 12/2097/73
Reference: MH 12/2097/73
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Content: Folios 127-128. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the Axminster Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, regarding the case of widow Mary Crocker and four of her children. Her late husband a coachman died in Exeter Hospital in December 1842. Shortly before his death his wife and children became chargeable to Axminster parish. She and four children living with her were wrongly removed to Blandford [Dorset] on 29 May 1843. The removal order was quashed at the sessions. Crocker is still at Blandford and wishes to remain there while retaining out relief from the Axminster board of guardians. Would such relief obtain the sanction of the Commission? The children, their ages, and places of birth are: At Blandford: Mary Ann Crocker, 13, Lymington [Hampshire]. Martha Crocker, 3, Blandford. Sarah Crocker, 1, Axminster. At a charity school at Tiverton: William Crocker, 12, Lymington. With their paternal grandfather: Frances Crocker, 5, Southampton [Hampshire]. Emma Crocker, 7, Southampton. Annotated: the Commission see nothing in this case which would justify them in consenting to non resident relief. Paper Number: 8016/A/1843. Poor Law Union Number 76. Counties: Devon and Dorset.
Date: 4 July 1843
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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