Tuam Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1852 - 1853
Includes:-
-Discharge of orphan boy, Patrick Flynn of Killensa, 8 years old, discussed (p11).
-Details of payment of salaries (p21).
-Inmate Mrs Ann Kyle (p44, see also p57).
-Mary Hughes, an orphan (p57).
-Details of new rates made (p73).
-Mary Long, former inmate, caught stealing (p135).
-Jean Mc Donnell, inmate (p199).
-Details of insurance cover for the workhouse premises (p203).
-Schedule of rates and arrears declared irrecoverable by the BG (7 Mar 1853).
-‘Resolved. That the PLC be requested to sanction the payment of the sum of £1.0.0 each to three paupers named Silk who have been in the workhouse for the last six years and are chargeable to the ClareTuam ED to enable them to emigrate to New York where their parents reside and who have paid their passage to America and that the above £3.0.0 be charged on the Clare Tuam ED’ (13 April 1853, see also 27 April and 4 May 1853).
-PL Inspector’s, Hall, report wherein he ‘estimates the resources of the Union to 29th September next at £4,385.12.11, and that he anticipated the requirements of the Union will be £8,056.3.9. The balance £3,670.10.10 is likely to be the amount of the net liability on the above date etc...
That the collection was in a backward state in all the districts of the union except that in which Mr Higgins is collector...’ (20 April 1853).
-Details of arrangements for ‘industrial training of the juvenile inmate of the workhouse’ ( 27 April 1853).
-Martin Fallon arrested for stealing workhouse clothes (4 May 1853).
-Proposal to assist two children named Mary and Catherine Shelly, inmates, to emigrate to America (11 May 1853).