Reference
P123/12/1
Title
Overseers' account book (detailed disbursements)
Date free text
1816 - 1837
Production date
From: 1816 To: 1816
Scope and Content
Includes: At front: receipts for monies paid for maintenance of Elizabeth Desbro's child, 1816-18, and for James Warboys, 1826-7
At reverse end: Poor rate assessments 1816 - 1833
These accounts are very detailed, and include items of expenditure on clothing for the poor, the Workhouse, buying pillow lace and bobbins, going to Infirmary and to St. Thomas Hospital, London, deaths and burials, coffins, rent for the Poor House, and payment of Doctor's bills etc.
Reference
Level of description
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