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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | William John Gilbert, correspondence and papers relating to the South Western District (including Cornwall and Devon), and some papers relating to the Northern District |
| Reference | MH 32/27 |
| Date | 1837-1845 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| 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. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief |
| Keywords | wages Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] medical relief job appointments elderly clothing provisions housing mining discontent riots agriculture manufacturing districts starvation allowance scale diet food able bodied rural poverty funeral workhouse construction healthcare church religion architecture disease mental health asylum schools education administration government bills railway |
| Country | England |
| County | Devon Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) Nottinghamshire Staffordshire Greater Manchester Shropshire |
| Places | Plymouth Exeter Liskeard Honiton Barnstaple Bideford South Molton Tiverton Torrington Okehampton Exeter Crediton Axminster Newton Abbot Totnes Kingsbridge Plympton Tavistock Stoke Damerel Stonehouse St Germans Redruth St Agnes Falmouth Camborne Holsworthy Stratton Camelford Truro St Austell Penzance St Ives Helston Bodmin Pilton Appledore Isles of Scilly Devonport Nottingham Burton Upon Trent Cheadle Leek Penkridge Seisdon Stafford Stone Stoke-on-Trent Tamworth Uttoxeter West Bromwich Wolverhampton Walsall Newcastle-under-Lyme Lichfield Madeley Newport Market Drayton Shifnal Wellington Nantwich Congleton Macclesfield Glossop Hayfield Bakewell Northwich Altrincham |
| People | Gilbert, William John Lefevre, John George Shaw Chadwick, Edwin Kempthorne, Sampson Twistleton, Edward Turner Boyd |
| Additional Information | Use the corresponding MH 33 Register of correspondence linked below to help search within this volume. [Note: Only William John Gilbert correspondence from 1834-1842 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 Day, Earle, Gilbert, Graves and Gulson, 1834-1846] |