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TitlePoor law: the case of Ellen Kirkham

Held atSenate House Library, University of London

Reference codeMS1299

Date1767-1789

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- Kirkham, Ellen (fl 1767-1789) parish apprenticeMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  Ellen Kirkham, daughter of Lydia Kirkham of Crowdecote, was baptised in 1767. She became a parish apprentice at the age of ten. Ellen's apprenticeship was bound up in the Poor Law and became the subject of a court dispute in 1789.

Scope and ContentPoor Law. Case relating to Ellen Kirkham, single woman aged 21, born out of wedlock (“born a bastard” in the terminology of the time) at Crowdecote, Derbyshire. Ellen was placed as a Parish Apprentice by the Overseer of the Poor to John Green, yeoman. She was now a pauper, removed from Fairfield Head to the Parish of Hartington.
Comprises: one page addressed to John Green giving him notice to produce at the Trial to be held in Stafford, the Indenture of Apprenticeship for Ellen, said to be dated 13th November 1776. Signed Goodwin, solicitor for Hartington Middle Quarter. Two pages setting out the case together with the opinion of William Beard of Newcastle, dated 4th October 1788. Folded folio sheet. A copy of the entry in the Church Register kept at Earl Sterndale stating that Ellen, the daughter of Lydia Kirkham of Crowdecote, was baptised 21st June 1767. Two page examination of Ellen regarding her place of settlement, taken before a justice of the peace of the County of Stafford, dated 24th June 1789, with the mark of Ellen Kirkham and sworn before John Sneyd on the 18th June. Docket title on the reverse. Folio.

NotesThis debate between overseers of Sheen, Middlesex and their peers in Hartington, Derbyshire became a dispute about Ellen Kirkham’s apprenticeship, which ended up in court. Part of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature.

Conditions governing accessOpen for research although at least 24 hours advance notice should be given.

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