Held at:

Herefordshire Record Office

Reference:

G71/4

Source:

Original Document

Title:

Digital Images Collection [Index]; Overseers Accounts Clodock [Township of Longtown] 1775 to 1783

Place name:

Clodock and Longtown

Date:

1775 to 1783

Description:

These Overseers Accounts for Clodock cover the Township of Longtown for the period February 1775 to March 1783
The document provides a detailed account of poor relief both in monetary payments as well as payment in kind eg cloth, wheat, malt, cheese, shoes, fuel, a coffin, made to named individuals. It also includes accounts of the distribution of the charity of William Pitt.

 

To view the digital images, click on the relevant year

 

1775

1776

1777

1778

1779

1780

1781

1782/3

 

Observations:

An extensive research paper entitled The Poor Law in Longtown, 1820 to 1840, has been prepared by Nina Wedell dated March 2010 and may be found at nw_lon_1022.


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