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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, Middlesex, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) |
| Reference | MH 32/88 |
| Date | 1850-1854 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Pamphlet; Official Papers; Returns Form |
| 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 1850 communication on industrial training for pauper children by the master of Guiltcross Union. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief |
| Keywords | indoor relief outdoor relief industrial training children vagrancy diet district schools agriculture Poor Law Board [1847-1871] settlement laws able bodied wages labour living conditions cottage homes population poor rates taxes legislation Union organisation schools |
| Country | England |
| County | Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Leicestershire Middlesex Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Rutland Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire |
| Places | Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade Leighton Buzzard Luton Woburn Newport Pagnell Caxton and Arrington North Witchford Whittlesea Wisbech St Albans Barnet Berkhamsted Bishop's Stortford Buntingford Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hitchin Royston Ware Watford Welwyn Huntingdon St Ives St Neots Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barrow upon Soar Billesdon Blaby Hinckley Leicester Loughborough Lutterworth Market Bosworth Market Harborough Melton Mowbray Edmonton, London Hendon, London Brackley Brixworth Daventry Hardingstone Kettering Northampton Oundle Peterborough Potterspury Thrapston Towcester Wellingborough Oakham Uppingham Lichfield Tamworth Alcester Aston Atherstone Bedworth Birmingham Coventry Foleshill Meriden Nuneaton Rugby Solihull Southam Stratford-upon-Avon Warwick King‘s Norton Basford Mansfield Radford Hundred of Redbornstoke |
| People | Weale, Robert Owen, Hugh Courtenay, William Reginald Lumley, William Golden Farnall, Harry Burrard Baines, Matthew Talbot |
| 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 |