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EPPING Workhouse and Poor Law Union
Epping is the
centre of a parochial union, comprising 18 parishes, containing 49,000
acres, & a population of 15,000. The Board of Guardians of the union meet on
Friday at Union House, Mr John Williams, clerk to the Board.
The union house has been built about 7 years, & forms a commanding feature
from the surrounding district; it is built in the Elizabethan style of
architecture, & is capable of accommodating 232.
Charles Merryman is surgeon;
Edmund Champness, master;
Mrs Alice Jeffery, matron;
Henry Salmons, schoolmaster;
Harriet Salmons, schoolmistress.
Source:
Post Office 1846 - p 65
Submitted by Betty Longbottom
Inmates
| Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of insane, idiotic, and
imbecile inmates. |
| WORKHOUSE |
MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
| Epping |
2 |
9 |
11 |
| Source: 22nd Report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom. |
Records
Essex
Record Office
Wharf Road,
Chelmsford
CM12 6YT.
Telephone (01245) 244644
Link to an Extract from an account of a
parish
dinner for poor children, at Epping
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