Helston Poor Law Guardians Minutes Volume 4 Reference PUHEL/4/1 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 1-3 Date of Meeting 26 Oct 1867 Description Guardians present listed – C W Popham, Chairman, Messrs J J Rogers, Pridmore, Carter, Commins, Hocking, Pengilly, Harry, R H Cade, M Hendy, Evans, H Thomas, James, Lemon, Kirby, Rosewarne, Pryor, J Hendy, Lugg, Lambrick, Pryor, Hill, Jose, Nicholls, Tyacke, Ivey, R Richards, H Rogers, Stephens, Hosking, Hibbard, J Thomas, Fothergill, Pengilly, James, James, Matthews, Penberthy, Bartlett. Provisions Account, over four weeks – Provisions £34 2s 8d; Garden and Pig 18s Necessaries £5 13s 5½d. Common Charges £6 2s 1d. [Meetings held fortnightly] Third Week – Moyle – Out Relief £42 4s 0d, Unsettled Poor 3s 0d; Rogers – Out Relief £23 13s 9d. Fourth week Moyle – Out Relief £49 18s 7d, Unsettled Poor 3s 0d; Rogers – Out Relief £23 13s 6d. Accounts debited – Non Residential Relief ,Bedford £2 18 6d; Lunatic Account £251 15s 8d; Common Charges Dunstone £2 13s 4d; Moyle, Relieving Officer, £90; Rogers, Relieving Officer, £48; Invoice, Dunstone £10; Common Charges, 8s 8d. Clerk read articles 155, 156 and Minute of Guardians Meeting of 20 September about appointment of Medical Officer. Mr Haswell, Mr Bullmore and Mr Borlase nominated as Medical Officer for District Number three. Mr Haswell five votes, Mr Bullmore and Mr Borlase fifteen votes each – inconclusive, so decision postponed until 23 November. Notices to be issued for tenders for shoes – to be in by 9 November. Balance of £216 13s 0d with Treasurer. Reference PUHEL/4/2 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 4-6 Date of Meeting 9 Nov 1867 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including County Rates £445 13s 4d. Tender for shoes accepted from Hawke and Sons as follows – Men's strong boots 7s 6d pair; Men's strong shoes 6s 9d; Women's nailed boots 5s 9d; Boys' strong boots 1-4, 5s 10d; Boys' strong boots 10-13, 4s 3d; Women's strong shoes 4s 2d; Girls strap shoes 6-9, 2s 4d; Girls strong shoes 10-13, 3s 4d. Poor Law Board want information as to manner in which Mrs Cock has discharged her duties as Schoolmistress – Master reported that she had done so most satisfactorily, especially as to cleanliness and order. She has leave of absence for a fortnight, being unwell – sending her sister to take charge in her absence. Where paupers assisted to emigrate by County Distress Fund the Union is to pay one half of providing necessary clothing. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/3 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 7-9 Date of Meeting 23 Nov 1867 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including Vaccination – Moyle 11s 6d; Cade 9s 0d and Registration – Moyle £7 19s 0d; Cade £4 18s 0d; Joyce £4 10s 0d; Michell £5 1s 0d; Trevenen £4 1s 0d; Clegg £1 2s 0d. Votes for Medical Officer for District Three 18 for Mr Borlase and 19 for Mr Bullmore – therefore Mr Bullmore elected. Clerk to inform Poor Law Board that although Mr Bullmore does not reside in district, his district nearer and more convenient for the population than that of ‘another medical gentleman called Haswell' who does actually reside there. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/4 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 10-12 Date of Meeting 7 Dec 1867 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid and payments including Lunatics Account for GB Collins of £22 3s 8d and Infirmary building of £330. Settlement Committee to meet at 3pm to consider 'whether expedient to appeal against suspended Order of removal of Ann Edwards from Portsea to Helston.' Technicalities about recording of Accounts discussed. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/5 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 13-14 Date of Meeting 21 Dec 1867 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including £230 on Workhouse Loan, Non Residential Relief and to Asylum for Hicks. Funerals – £7 12s 0d to Richards. Appeal to be lodged against removal of Walters from Redruth to Helston. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/6 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 15-17 Date of Meeting 4 Jan1868 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including Medical fees – Appleton 7s 6d; Vivian £2 5s 0d;Bullmore £5 2s 6d; Wearne £5 1s 0d; Serjeant £9 [?] 10s 0d. Vaccination fees and Salaries for the quarter – Hill £20; Moyle £20; Rogers £17 10s 0d; Dunstone £15; Lugg £5; Wearne £16 5s 0d; Appleton £10 15s 0d; Vivian £13 15s 0d; Rowe £3; M Cock £5; Trethowan £6 5s 0d. Tenders invited for stove grates for the Infirmary. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/7 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 18-20 Date of Meeting 18 Jan1868 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including Non Residential Relief; Infirmary, Eva [Builder] £100; Invoices – Troup £6, Ralph junior £16 10s 3d, Ralph senior £20 11s 10d, Cunnack £11 6s 4d; Common Charges – Williams £1 2s 2d. Messrs Hosken and Sons tender for flour until midsummer accepted at Fine Bag at 50s a sack of 280lbs and seconds at 40s sack of 280lbs. Messrs Williams and Sons tender for supplying Infirmary with grates provisionally accepted. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/8 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 21-22 Date of Meeting 1 Feb 1868 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including Non Residential Relief. Clerk to visit Mrs Pascoe of Sithney and Mr Medlyn at Trevenen Mine to take evidence about Ann Edmonds birth at Sithney and alleged settlement at Plymouth by renting and rating. Thanks to Clerk for 'excellent form into which he has thrown the Pauper List' Clerk to 'draw up case about Sarah Walters Settlement for Counsels opinion'. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/9 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 23-25 Date of Meeting 15 Feb 1868 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid. Cheque to Mr Pethybridge for Lunatics – £259 15s 4d. Counsel's opinion not to appeal in Walters’ case. Respondents informed that Appeal abandoned. Guardians of Wendron had made enquiry into settlement of someone calling herself Elizabeth Shea, though they doubted the Christian name – seems she is a Wendron pauper. Clerk to check the Christian name. Clerk also to find more information on the settlement of Simon Hocking in Truro. His son is pauper in Falmouth Union and claims a settlement in Helston by birth. Clerk also to send a copy of John Francis Leyman's examination as to his Settlement to the Exeter Incorporation and to ask them to take his wife and children without an Order. Clerk to call on Jenkin of Sithney Trough and discover what he knows of Ann Edmonds having gained a Settlement by 'hiring and service' in Penzance. Suggestion to Penzance Union to send one of their Relieving Officers to make further enquiries into Jane Bartle's Settlement. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/10 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 26-28 Date of Meeting 29 Feb 1868 Description Guardians present listed Accounts including Registration. Mary Jenkin examined on alleged Settlement of Ann Edmonds by hiring and service, but she could not say with whom or where this happened. Portsea Solicitors enquired of pauper who denies the claim. Elizabeth Williams to be accepted from Truro without an Order. Also Elizabeth Shea and George Pascoe from Redruth to be accepted without an Order. John Perry did not gain Settlement in Penzance by renting tenement of the value of £10. Further enquiries about Hocking's Settlement in Truro as to whether he gained it by marriage. William Pascoe's tender for shoe repairs accepted at 50s a quarter. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/11 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 29-31 Date of Meeting 14 Mar1868 Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including Non Resident Relief. Mrs Rowe to be asked whether her brother Simon Hocking had gained Settlement by hiring and service and if not to inform Falmouth Union they would take Rosina Hocking without an Order. Mary Wakefield to be put under Order of Removal from Portsea. Relieving Officer Moyle to visit Ann Edmonds in Portsea, now under Order of Removal and take with him the examination of parties – now read to Board – and discover pauper's recollection of the facts therein as to her service with Richards of Trethogga in Penzance Union and if necessary Moyle is to call in the assistance of Messrs Ford. Tenders invited for enlargement of Workhouse Wash Kitchen. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/12 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 32-34 Date of Meeting 14 Apr 1868 [sic, actually 28 Mar 1868 and that date written in margin.] Description Guardians present listed. Accounts paid including medical and vaccination fees, also Non Resident Relief. Henry Allen's tender to build the Children's Wash Kitchen according to plan and specification for £24 accepted. Books examined, provisions ordered and usual payments to Relieving Officers. Reference PUHEL/4/13 Title Minutes of the Board of Guardians, volume 4, pages 35-42 Date of Meeting 11 Apr 1868 Description Guardians present listed.