Memorandum book of Richard Tilburn and John Daniell

as overseers of the poor for the township of Doncaster. Includes day to day memoranda of events, lists of overseers, lists of payments to the wives of militia men, list of poor receiving monthly pay, list of poor receiving temporary relief, summary of accounts of overseers fo 1793-1794, and references to children made pauper apprentices at the cotton mill of Davison and Hawksley, Arnold, Notts

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Purchased from an antiquarian bookseller in 1959

Microfilm copy available in the reading room. For further information on Davison and Hawksley, see Stanley D Chapman, 'The Early Factory Masters' (1967), pp 178-196