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Collapse D442 - Chapel-en-le-Frith Poor Law Union and Board of Guardians - 1837-1958

D442 - Chapel-en-le-Frith Poor Law Union and Board of Guardians - 1837-1958

Collapse W - Workhouse records - 1837-1958

W - Workhouse records - 1837-1958

Expand 1 - Clerk to the Guardians: Board of Guardians minute books - 1918-1930

1 - Clerk to the Guardians: Board of Guardians minute books - 1918-1930

Collapse 2 - Clerk's loose papers - 1837-1928

2 - Clerk's loose papers - 1837-1928

1 - Order of the Poor Law Commissioners establishing the Chapel en le Frith Union, Nov - 1837

2 - Order of the Poor Law Commissioners approving the purchase of the parish poorhouse and the adjoining land, Parsons meadow (1¼ acre) owned by Peter Booth, surgeon, for the building of a new workhouse, Jun. - 1839

3 - Application by the Board to the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation for a loan of £2000 towards the purchase of land and building of a workhouse, Oct. - 1839

4 - Mortgage (parties as in D442 C/W 2/3), security for the repayment of £2000 by charge on the rates, Dec. - 1839

5 - Letter from the manager of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank at Stockport, authorising the payment of £2000 to the Union's bankers, Messrs Smith, Payne and Smith of London, Dec. - 1839

6 - Order approving the sale of 490 square yards of land, part of the workhouse premises, on the south side of the Manchester to Sheffield turnpike road, Jul. - 1840

7 - Order of the Poor Law Commissioners authorising an additional loan of £1000 for expenditure on building the workhouse, Oct - 1841

8 - As D442 C/W 3, for an additional loan of £1000, Nov. - 1841

9 - Certificate of the Poor Law Commissioners, authorising the additional loan as in D442 C/W2/7, Nov. - 1841

10 - As D442 C/W2/4 for the additional payment of £1000. Dec. - 1841

11 - As D442 C/W2/5, authorising the additional payment of £1000, Dec. - 1841

12 - Deed to extend the repayment period of the loans D442 C/W2/4 and D442 C/W2/10, Jan. - 1842

13 - Order of the Poor Law Commissioner, authorising the building of an infirmary at the workhouse - the cost not to exceed £750, Sep. - 1869

14 - Mortgage by the Board of Guardians to Anthony Bellot Jackson of Rye Flatt, Combs Edge, gent, Robert Hill Hyde of Chapel, butcher, and Miles Bramwell of Chapel, innkeeper to raise £750 [for D442 C/W2/13 to be repaid over 30 years, Nov 1869. Also contains a transfer of mortgage by RH Hyde to other trustees of the Loyal Protestant Beneficial Association at Chapel. - 1886

15 - Declaration that money lent in D442 C/W2/14 belonged to the Chapel en le Frith Protestant Association and was lent by the individuals as trustees, Nov. - 1869

16 - Copy loan sanction by the Ministry of Health - £1000 to purchase Cromwell House, Chapel, Oct. - 1919

17 - Rules for nurses and assistant nurses in the infirmary, approved at a Board meeting, Dec. - 1928

18 - Plan of the workhouse buildings by Charles Flint, architect and surveyor, Buxton. - [c. early 20th century]

Expand 3 - Contracts - 1930

3 - Contracts - 1930

Expand 4 - Register of births - 1914-1948

4 - Register of births - 1914-1948

Expand 5 - Register of deaths - 1914-1943

5 - Register of deaths - 1914-1943

Expand 6 - Creed registers - 1902-1925

6 - Creed registers - 1902-1925

Expand 7 - Visiting committee - 1927-1942

7 - Visiting committee - 1927-1942

Expand 8 - Tobacco and snuff accounts - 1925-1939

8 - Tobacco and snuff accounts - 1925-1939

Expand 9 - Garden and pig accounts - 1925-1958

9 - Garden and pig accounts - 1925-1958

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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