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Folios 510-512. Letter from John D Taylor [John Dobede Taylor], Clerk to the Guardians...

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Reference MH 12/4539/308
Date 1849-02-01
Description Folios 510-512. Letter from John D Taylor [John Dobede Taylor], Clerk to the Guardians of the Bishops Stortford Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board enclosing the annual returns of pauper, lunatics and idiots chargeable to the parishes within the union as of 1 January 1849. Enclosed is a complete list of all lunatics and idiots chargeable to the parishes within the Bishops Stortford Poor Law Union, where they are maintained, their ages, whether they are a danger to themselves, whether they are of dirty habits and the average weekly cost per head of their maintenance and clothing and the length of time they are supposed to be of unsound mind. Those listed in the parishes of Hertfordshire are as follows: Emma Elsdon, 26, Brent Pelham. Lewis Reed, 64, Brent Pelham. Mary Lawrence, 46, Brent Pelham. Charles Rayment, 38, Brent Pelham. Mary Bradford, 50, Stocking Pelham. Samuel Warwick, 26, Great Hadham. Mary Brace, 35, Great Hadham. Alan Patmore, 29, Great Hadham. John Barber, 24, Braughin [Braughing]. Charity Conyard, 38, Braughin [Braughing]. Joan Webb, 29, Braughin [Braughing]. Simon Cuffley 43, Sawbridgeworth. Hester Prassell, 52, Sawbridgeworth. Susan Brown, 37, Sawbridgeworth. Martha Lincoln, 40, Little Hadham. Sarah Bayford, 36, Bishops Stortford. Samuel Jackson, 24, Bishops Stortford. Elizabeth Jackson, 22, Bishops Stortford. James Brazier, 37, Bishops Stortford. James Housden, 24, Thorley. Francis Oates, 16, Albury. Mary Miles, 63, Braughin [Braughing]. Mary May, 20, Furneux Pelham. Isaac Barker, 38, Braughin [Braughing]. James Long, 37, Braughin [Braughing]. Mary Newman, 53, Bishops Stortford. George Hammond, 47, Albury. Those listed in the parishes of Essex are as follows: Susan Stone, 19, Berden. Eliza Bush, 30, Berden. Mary Watts, 30, Manuden. Mary Edwards, 33, Manuden. Alice Shaw, 33, Stansted. Jesse Halls, 24, Great Hallingbury. George Eldred, 43, Great Hallingbury. Charles Nash, 29, Little Hallingbury. Amelia Phillips, 20, Stansted. Isaac Perry, 22, Henham. Joseph White, 21, Henham. Mary Amey, 26, Henham. Emma Prior, 28, Farnham. Paper Number: 3961/1849. Poor Law Union Number 167. Counties: Hertfordshire and Essex.
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English
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