A rather expensive book of these pauper letters in Essex has been published
quite recently - I think the Essex Record Office would be able to give
details as the letters are in their archives.
Jacky
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> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:51:38 +0100
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> Subject: Pauper Letters
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> During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many parishes
> provided 'non-resident' relief to their poor living elsewhere. For Kirkby
> Lonsdale in Westmorland and a number of Essex parishes, e.g. Braintree and
> St Botolph, Colchester, there are many surviving letters from ex-patriot
> paupers pleading for/demanding relief.
>
> How widespread are such letters - are there examples elsewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Park,
> Walton on Thames , Surrey.
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> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:17:22 +0100
> From: Peter King <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Pauper Letters
>
> I am not an expert on the poor law, but the issue here concerns
settlement.
> Every one had a parish in which he was settled. It was that parish that
was
> responsible for his (or her) relief, if in need. If a person was living
in
> parish where he was not legally settled, the parish of actual residence
> could insist on his being returned to his place of settlement. However it
> might be advantageous to the settlement parish to subsidise his continued
> residence elsewhere, if for example he could earn part of his support
there.
> This is based on an article that I have seen on the contents of the parish
> chest of this parish (in north Worcestershire) which in the 19th century
> subsidised a man who was partly disabled and lived in Wigan with a family
> there, but still legally settled in Hagley.
>
> Peter King,
> 49, Stourbridge Road,
> Hagley,
> Stourbridge
> West Midlands
> DY9 0QS
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> telephone 01562-720368
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> To: Peter Wickham King <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 29 May 2003 10:51
> Subject: Pauper Letters
>
>
> > During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many parishes
> > provided 'non-resident' relief to their poor living elsewhere. For
Kirkby
> > Lonsdale in Westmorland and a number of Essex parishes, e.g. Braintree
and
> > St Botolph, Colchester, there are many surviving letters from ex-patriot
> > paupers pleading for/demanding relief.
> >
> > How widespread are such letters - are there examples elsewhere?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter Park,
> > Walton on Thames , Surrey.
> >
>
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> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:36:42 +0100
> From: Ruth Paley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Pauper Letters
>
> Peter
>
> Yes, such letters are not uncommon - although their survival seems to be
> patchy.
>
> Ruth
>
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