Kinsale Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/108
BG/108/FA
Master’s Report Book
Scope and Content: Record of reports of the master of the workhouse submitted to meetings of the board of guardians. Similar to BG/108/F, the volume records exercise of children [dates, not average times], but does not record food or goods required. Brief reports from the Infirmary Division [signed by the matron] are inserted, noting whether halls and dormitories are clean, how the women are employed [e.g. knitting], and the number times women and children go out [for exercise]. The volume consists mainly of reports of matters arising deemed worthy of comment. Decisions or comments of the board are recorded in the margins and initialled.
Date: 17 Mar 1881 – 9 Jun 1887
Level: Item
Extent: 1 vol
1.
Includes:
p3 (31 Mar 1881) Reports that a female child was brought to the house by police, in the charge of a woman ‘who stated she found it deserted in a corner of the Summer Hill Station’. [A recurring item, see also p148 (21 Jun 1883)]
p218 (10 Jul 1884) Reports two persons were brought to the workhouse on removal warrants from the parish of Edinburgh.
p387 (14 Oct 1886) Reports that Francis Creagh, master shoemaker, has handed over his keys and balance of stock, as he has purchased a ticket to America.
BG/108/FT
Workhouse Farm Accounts
Scope and Content: Record of farm stock on hand, purchased, sold, and consumed for each financial half-year. This format of recording debit and credit for each half-year is described as the ‘Master’s Form’. Profit, loss, and totals are noted at the bottom of each form, and signed by the auditor. The entries for 30 Sep 1900 are typical: on debit side is noted ‘To value of stock on hand, to FE Gowan for recds [potatoes], to R Scott & Co for wire’. On the credit side is noted ‘By value of vegetables used in the house, by sale of vegetabl es, by [sale of] grazing’.
Date: 30 Sep 1899 – 16 Apr 1924
Level: Item
Extent: 1 vol
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