Catalogue description Name Weale, Robert Occupation: Assistant Poor Law Commissioner; porter;...

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Details of MH 12/9528/35
Reference: MH 12/9528/35
Description:
Name(s): Weale, Robert
Occupation: Assistant Poor Law Commissioner; porter; workhouse master
Corporations: Poor Law Commission; Southwell Union
Content:
Folio 55. Letter from the Robert Weale, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting Weale's thoughts on whether the Southwell Union guardians should appoint a porter and stating that a decision to do so is best taken when they think it appropriate; in the meantime, the workhouse master feels that he can manage things without one because 'poor Irish vagrants have driven the sturdy English vagrants from the field'.
Date: 14 April 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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