QSR1828/362

Information of Joseph Curtis of Kempston, assistant overseer regarding the destitution of Margaret Peck.

1828

From: 1828 To: 1828

Margaret, wife of Stephen Peck asked for relief, saying 'her husband had gone a drinking and spending his money and that neither she nor her children had anything to eat.' He ordered a quartern loaf for her and had relieved her the previous week in the same way. He later went into Peck's lodgings and found nothing but a few cold potatoes and a little bread. The neighbours confirmed her statement as to the destitute state in which she was left. She also complained that her husband had been selling their things and he saw the bed taken from the bedstead 'as it were for sale or removal.' Information of Mary Conquest, wife of William Conquest. Confirms former deposition; Margaret Peck does work but cannot earn enough to keep herself and two children, one being 'an infant at breast.'

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Peck, Margaret,
Peck, Stephen,
Curtis, Joseph,
Conquest, Mary

overseer, KEMPSTON, Poor Law Relief