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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Robert Weale, correspondence and papers related to the North and West Midlands Districts (includes unions in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) |
| Reference | MH 32/87 |
| Date | 1845-1849 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; 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 a survey on the potato blight of 1847 and the returns of schoolteachers and medical officers. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade |
| Keywords | Board of Guardians potato disease teachers Schoolmaster/Schoolmistress medical relief district schools Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] Poor Law Board [1847-1871] audits elections settlement laws poor rates labour wages able bodied agriculture administration medical reform government acts schools vagrant wards workhouse conditions Union organisation poor relief population cottage homes indoor relief outdoor relief |
| Country | England |
| County | Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Derbyshire Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Rutland Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire |
| Places | Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade Leighton Buzzard Luton Woburn Newport Pagnell Caxton and Arrington North Witchford Whittlesea Wisbech Bakewell Belper Chesterfield Derby Shardlow Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barrow upon Soar Billesdon Blaby Hinckley Leicester Loughborough Lutterworth Market Bosworth Market Harborough Melton Mowbray Boston Bourn Caistor Gainsborough Glanford Brigg Grantham Holbeach Horncastle Lincoln Louth Sleaford Spalding Spilsby Stamford St Albans Barnet Berkhamsted Buntingford Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hitchin Royston Ware Watford Welwyn Huntingdon St Ives St Neots Basford Bingham Retford Mansfield Newark Nottingham Radford Southwell Worksop Oakham Uppingham Burton upon Trent Cheadle Leek Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme Penkridge Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Stone Tamworth Uttoxeter Burslem Aston Artherstone Birmingham Brixworth Kettering Oundle Peterborough Thrapston Wellingborough King's Norton |
| People | Weale, Robert Chadwick, Edwin Graham, Sir James [2nd Baronet] Baines, Matthew Talbot |
| Additional Information | Use the corresponding MH 33 Register of correspondence linked below to help search within this volume. [Note: Only Robert Weale correspondence from 1835-1846 is recorded in the corresponding Register.] |
| 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 |
| This correspondence document is linked to |
[Register of Correspondence for Assistant Commissioners Weale and Walsham, 1834-1846] |