Foxton, Cambrigeshire: overseers' accounts and additional material

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.3297
  • Dates of Creation
      1770-1835
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume paper paper

Scope and Content

Covering dates Easter 1770-Easter 1795. Includes further material: (fo. 84) copy returns of population at Foxton, 27 May 1811; (fo. 85) adjudication of JPs in case of Eliza Barns, pauper, 4 Oct. 1828; (fo. 86) letter from Edward Hawke Ness to Swan Hurrell, 21 May 1834; (fo. 88) letter from Phelips Hanham to Rachel Allen, 28 Aug. 1834; (fo. 90) copy letter from Allen Hurrell to unidentified, 9 Sep. 1834; (fo. 92) Swan Hurrell, accounts re illegitimate child of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 1833-5; (fo. 93) draft letter from overseers of Foxton to overseers of Walthamstow, Essex, 15 Mar. 1835; (fo. 95) letter from Phelips Hanham to Allen Hurrell, 23 Apr. 1835, with copy of letter from Hurrell to Hanham, 29 Apr. 1835. Pasted inside front cover: note in hand of Allen Hurrell, 23 Apr. 1870.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from Messrs Bull and Auvache, 12 Oct. 1894.

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