PLC 1840

PLC 1840

6th Report of the Poor Law Commissioners 1840
England and Wales plus Ireland pp 1-486

App B 1 p 118-137
Report on the State of Pauperism as exemplified in the Atcham Union by William Day, esq Assistant Poor Law Commissioner dated February 1840.
Many names of Paupers given.

App B 3 pp 143-172
Report on the Law of Bastardy; with a Supplementary Report on a Cheap Civil Remedy for Seduction. by Sir Edmund Head Bt
Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. dated Ross March 1840.

App B 5 p 176-179
Communication from the Master of the Workhouse of the Boston Union, relative to the Instruction and Management of the Pauper Children in the Workhouse of the Union. dated 30th Mar 1840
List of names of 22 Children - Ages - Parish - Date Hired - Hired by - Terms of Hiring

Includes
No 12 Charlotte Temple aged 13 of Sutterton hired 8th June by Miss Watmough of Skirbeck at £1 per annum Note - Returned 24th July, after absconding from her situation, where she had committed many petty thefts. This girl, if her statement be correct, was taught to thieve by her mother, a woman of depraved habits, with whom she lived previous to her admission into the workhouse.

Source: 6th Report of the Poor Law Commissioners 1840
England and Wales plus Ireland pp 1-486
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

Page updated 06 August 2007