Midleton workhouse Board of Guardians (BG118)

Midleton Board of Guardians IE CCCA BG/118

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16 May 1855 – 10 Oct 1855 17 Oct 1855 – 26 Mar 1856 2 Apr 1856 – 24 Sept 1856

Includes:

2 Apr 1856 Lists of rate payers elected to the committees of management of the dispensary districts of Aghada, Cloyne, Castlemartyr, Midleton, and Walshtownmore East.

16 Apr 1856 The Master reports a coroner’s inquest verdict that a pauper came by her death from wounds inflicted by another inmate, a lunatic.

4 Jun 1856 Resolved, in the context of a lawsuit between PLC and the Midleton Estate, that the Board will not take a new lease of the dispensary and fever hospital, there being alternative accommodation within the walls if needed. 6 Aug 1856 Resolution regarding the ‘insuperable difficulty’ of recovering from Mr Wilson, late rate collector, or his securities, ‘the amount of his defalcation in the last rate’.

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Missing Missing Missing Missing

8 Sept 1858 – 2 Mar 1859

Missing

7 Sept 1859 – 29 Feb 1860

Missing Missing Missing Missing

26 Feb 1862 – 20 Aug 1862

Includes:

26 Feb 1862 Resolved, to oppose any proposal that Queenstown electoral division transfer from the Cork to the Midleton Union.

5 Mar 1862 Report of the inspector of national agricultural schools, expressing satisfaction with ‘the number and proficiency in the agricultural class’ and the farm generally.

16 Apr 1862 Resolved, that the master ‘provide a coffee breakfast and a meat dinner for the pauper inmates on next Easter Sunday’.

23 Apr 1862, Resolved, to agree to increase from £10 to £12 the annual pension for inmates in Cork Blind Asylum.

18 Jun 1862 Order expressing regret that PLC will not permit the matron’s sister

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