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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | John Walsham, correspondence and papers relating to the Eastern District (including unions in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk) |
| Reference | MH 32/81 |
| Date | 1847 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report |
| Collection | MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904 |
| Series Description | This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. The series also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors, and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of workhouses, a medical report on infant feeding and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840. |
| Document Description | Includes returns from workhouse school teachers related to their current posts. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Education and Children |
| Keywords | potato disease famine Poor Law Board [1847-1871] workhouse conditions education Schoolmaster/Schoolmistress literacy compulsory education children schools day-care examinations ragged schools diet food wages inspection domestic training allowance scale healthcare needlework mismanagement medical relief settlement laws |
| Country | England |
| County | Essex Suffolk Norfolk Hertfordshire Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Oxfordshire |
| Places | Aylsham Bishop's Stortford Blofield Blything Bosmere and Claydon Braintree Buntingford Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Caxton and Arrington Chelmsford Chesterton Colchester Cosford Depwade Docking Downham Dunmow Ely Epping Erpingham Forehoe Halstead Hartismere Hempstead Hitchin Hoxne Huntingdon Ipswich St Ives King's Lynn Lexden Linton Rochford Maldon Mildenhall Norwich Ongar Plomesgate Risbridge Royston Saffron Walden Samford Stow Sudbury Swaffham Tendring Thetford Thingoe Walsingham Wangford Wayland Welwyn Whittlesea Wisbech Witham Woodbridge Great Yarmouth |
| People | Walsham, John Chadwick, Edwin |
| Library/Archive | The National Archives, UK |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Images including crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |