Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69
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2. Correspondence
BG/69/B/
Board of Guardian Outgoing Letter Books
Scope and Content: Letter books containing copies of letters sent by the Clerk and Secretary of the Union, to various parties including the Poor Law Commissioners and later the Local Government Board, rate collectors, the Guardians’ solicitors, members of staff, the master of the Workhouse, various persons subject to resolutions and actions of the Guardians and the Cork Sanitary Authority.
Date : Jun 1829 – Jul 1918
Level : Series
Extent : 6 vols.
1.
19 Jun 1829 – 6 Apr 1854
Includes: (17 Jul 1839) to William Stanley Esquire, Asst. Secretary, Poor Law Commissioners Office, Dublin, transmitting report of last days meeting of the Board of Guardians (20 Mar 1841) to Richard Neane Esq, Secretary and Registrar, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, concerning payment of pension of Patrick Maguire late of the 6 th [Veterans] Battalion. (12 Jan 1849) to WH Hopper, Secretary, Central Board of Health, Dublin, concerning powers to be given to the Board of Guardians for the speedy issue of coffins for burial of destitute persons (18 Feb 1853) to Secretary of Education, Dublin concerning employment of a ‘first class female teacher capable of instructing the adult as well as the younger inmates in the higher branches of needle work and embroidery ..’ (21 Apr 1853) to A.C. Buchanan, Emigration Office, Quebec, concerning 99 young women inmates selected for emigration on the ‘Urania’. Appeals to his usual kindness and humanity to take an interest in their success. Gives names of seven girls who in particular were ‘very well conducted an d of excellent character’. With partial index. (c.500pp)
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Missing Missing
6 Jun 1879 – 22 Feb 1886 1 Mar 1886 – 20 Feb 1894
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