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Actions	Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, Mar - Oct 1851 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, Mar - Oct 1851 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceG01/12/11 Date31 March 1851 to 20 October 1851 Scope and Content Includes - ‘Resolved that the Commissioners be requested too get Aid from the Treasury to Emigrate some of the unmarried females now in this workhouse to Van Dieman’s land’ (p13) - The Medical Officer’s report ‘The mortality he regrets was heavier than usual last week there being 12 deaths in the Infirmary, 3 in the nursery, and 3 in the Fever Hospital; the majority being children whose previous constitutional debility, and general decline rendered them unable to bear up against the effects of disease’ (p23). - The Medical Officer’s reported ‘that the coffins supplied are of a most shameful description, and the shrouding a mere delusion’ (p39). - ‘Ordered that the Master get eighteen iron rakes for the purpose of making the land fine for sowing flax’ (p43). - Tenders requested for ‘Plans and estimates for providing, and erecting steaming apparatus capable of cooking for 3,500 persons on the Workhouse premises’ (p91). - ‘Resolved that the Commissioners be informed….on the chargeability of a foundling found in the Gort electoral Division that the majority of the Board were of opinion that said foundling should be charged to Gort…’(p137) - ‘Resolved that arrangements be entered into with as little delay as possible to remove the weaving establishment and all others in which the males are employed to Fairy Hill, and that the departments of the House at present occupied by these be fitted up for the reception of females while the pressure is on the House’ (p219). Extent473pp LanguageEnglish SubjectEmigration Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Levelfile Hierarchy browser G01/12 Gort Poor Law Union, 1844-1921 1844 - 1921fonds contains 7 parts G01/12/1-103 Gort Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes Books, 1844-1921 1844-1921series contains 98 parts G01/12/11 Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, Mar - Oct 1851 31 March 1851 to 20 October 1851file

TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, Mar - Oct 1851

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG01/12/11

Date31 March 1851 to 20 October 1851

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- ‘Resolved that the Commissioners be requested too get Aid from the Treasury to Emigrate some of the unmarried females now in this workhouse to Van Dieman’s land’ (p13)

- The Medical Officer’s report ‘The mortality he regrets was heavier than usual last week there being 12 deaths in the Infirmary, 3 in the nursery, and 3 in the Fever Hospital; the majority being children whose previous constitutional debility, and general decline rendered them unable to bear up against the effects of disease’ (p23).

- The Medical Officer’s reported ‘that the coffins supplied are of a most shameful description, and the shrouding a mere delusion’ (p39).

- ‘Ordered that the Master get eighteen iron rakes for the purpose of making the land fine for sowing flax’ (p43).

- Tenders requested for ‘Plans and estimates for providing, and erecting steaming apparatus capable of cooking for 3,500 persons on the Workhouse premises’ (p91).

- ‘Resolved that the Commissioners be informed….on the chargeability of a foundling found in the Gort electoral Division that the majority of the Board were of opinion that said foundling should be charged to Gort…’(p137)

- ‘Resolved that arrangements be entered into with as little delay as possible to remove the weaving establishment and all others in which the males are employed to Fairy Hill, and that the departments of the House at present occupied by these be fitted up for the reception of females while the pressure is on the House’ (p219).

Extent473pp

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEmigration

Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives.

Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

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