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g e w as charged at the Chester Police Court with neglecting to support his children in the workhouse, and

... g e w as charged at the Chester Police Court with neglecting to support his children in the workhouse, and according to the report before us, the foregoing facts were given i a e vidence. The magistrate sentenced Moran to a month's hard labour. Did they ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1879
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

• For Sale: THE well-known BLACKSMITH SHOP and a WORKHOUSE, 105 Roebuck Street, containing 3,111 square Vet of ..

... • For Sale: THE well-known BLACKSMITH SHOP and a WORKHOUSE, 105 Roebuck Street, containing 3,111 square Vet of Land, formerly belouged to the late JOHN G. GRANT. Terms made easy to an approved purchaser Wither particulars, apply to THOS. WALTON, Harrison's ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1871
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Doctor's Princely Salary

... officer at the workhouse infirmary at a salary of £4O per annum, with board and apartments. He is to have the double qualification, and will be required, in addition to his work as doctor, to do all the dispensing required for the workhouse. The salaries ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1897
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Remarkable Incident

... incident that is probably unparalleled in Poor Law administration recently occurred at Newmarket. England The master of the workhouse has for several years been collecting funds to build a church for his inmates, and has been simultaneously studying for holy ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1897
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Nuns as Nurses

... pays a deservedly high tribute to the good work being performed by nuns as nurses in workhouses in Ireland. To see these devoted women in hospitals, asylums and workhouses the world over is a glorious spectacle, their presence being indeed the one bright ...

Published: Friday 17 September 1897
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WITH POSSIBLE AID FROM GUARDIANS

... paupers of suitable ago would be free to leave the workhouse and claim their pension but could not claim it while resident there. If they reinsio iii, or if after leaving they should return to the workhouse, their pension would pus to the Guardians in co ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1899
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Pauper's Gold

... case under consideration. A widow, who had been receiving pour relief for many years, and whose husband had died in the workhouse, had been in the habit of sleeping upon a bag of gold. Wheu poured out on a tea tray the bag was found to contain £l5O. The ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1899
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Survivors of the Balaclava Charge

... to the London press to say that some of the men are in very needy circumstances and two of them were brought out of the workhouse. He is anxious to raise such a fund as will provide them with, at least, food and shelter out of the Union for the rest of ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1897
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATION PUB, THE POOR

... making the labour of the poor remonerative, is worthy of consideration. The extrAct is as follows :— There is M. least one workhouse jut Eng!and at pre sent which is in a fair way to Leconte a commercial The poorhouse authorities of Spalcing purchase old ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1886
Newspaper: Barbados Herald
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TREATMEN2 OF THE POOH IN ENG. LAND

... THE POOH IN ENG. LAND. Wiselip the following from an English Newspaper The almost heroic attitmie of the poor toward the workhouse—their sufferings rather than enter it, and the misery they will -endure sooner than be beholden to it for any kind of re ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1881
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWS ITEMS

... nervous system. At an ordinary meeting of the Islington Board of Guardians it was stated that among the pauper inmates of the workhouse were three medical men and a dispenser. ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1886
Newspaper: Barbados Agricultural Reporter
County: Barbados, Barbados
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 5 | Tags: none