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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Richard Muggeridge, correspondence and papers related to the North Western District (includes Lancashire) |
| Reference | MH 32/58 |
| Date | 1834-1839 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Map; Report; Official Papers |
| 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 migration of able-bodied labourers for employment in Lancashire but mainly Manchester, and regulation of child labour under the 1834 Act. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade; Education and Children |
| Keywords | able bodied children child labour legislation migrant labour migration rural poverty wages labour provisions living wage manufacturing districts Board of Guardians Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] government acts railway family financial relief bricklaying poor rates apprentices employment strikes cotton manufacturing trade and commerce economic depression emigration Irish |
| Country | England |
| County | Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire (including East, North and West Riding) Suffolk |
| Places | Manchester Bolton |
| People | Muggeridge, Richard Lambert, John Chadwick, Edwin Lewis, Thomas Frankland |
| 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 |