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BORN IN WORKHOUSE

... BORN IN WORKHOUSE SON WINS CLAIM TO i 15,000 ESTATE A reserved judgment was given In the Probate Court yesterdav by Mr. Justice Langton. granting the petition under the Legitimacy Act of 1926 by Mr. Arthur (or Robert) Henrv Davev, commercial traveller ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1934
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DIED IN WORKHOUSE

... DIED IN WORKHOUSE. A bank-book showing a credit of £3,400 was found under the mattress in the room in which William Richardson, aged 60. nau lived alene in apparent poverty at 47 Commercial Road, South Shields, and a further sum amounting to about £l4O ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1931
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE PORTER

... WORKHOUSE PORTER OBJECTION BY MINISTRY. GUARDIANS DISPLEASED. Ballymena Board of Guardians met on Saturday, Mr. Samuel Watson. Co.C. (chairman), presiding. Also present were —Miss M'Cutcheon, J.P.; and Messrs. Bernard O’Neill, J.P.; Thos. Bankhead, Alexander ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARMAGH WORKHOUSE

... ARMAGH WORKHOUSE Guardians Search for Alternative Name Several suggestions were made Armagh Board Guardians yesterday for suitable alternative name for the workhouse. Mr. Elliott suggested Eden Homo of Best,” while Mr. Corkey agreed that the present name ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1934
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CORNISH WORKHOUSES

... CORNISH WORKHOUSES. 4 I.OSINO OF CASUAL WARD. At tan Of WOAr it tee. at Falmouth. on di wit le ti,oln in regard Fen rani, and Hrtatun r• Mt 1111•1 that tin. a a tit. at Pros-tare ohould la. •Mardi a ail Ilehitun rat* am et ruiald to the nucleus for the ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1931
Newspaper: Cornish Post and Mining News
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE RECONSTRUCTION

... WORKHOUSE RECONSTRUCTION. The Clerk read a letter from the Ministry intimating their approval the new or amended plans for the conversion the Lurgan Workhouse into a District Hospital. Mr. M'Alinden asked what was the next procedure. Tho Clerk said to ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1932
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRISON OR WORKHOUSE!

... PRISON OR WORKHOUSE! DERRY MAN PREFERS CELL. A defendant in a committal pocess 38 Derry Recorder’s Court, which arose out of & decree for £lO for the poisoning of nmybmnd,uidifivuuand“ going to the workhouse or to prison. The Recorder—You can make your ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1930
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRINCE IN WORKHOUSE

... PRINCE IN WORKHOUSE Prince Portia, last of a line of Hungarian anstCKiats. has application the B- pest inagistiate for plate the city’s workhouse, accord- to the “Neue Preie Prease.” quoted bv Reuter The Prince who once extremely rich, lost millions in ...

Pensioners in Workhouses

... Pensioners in Workhouses The controversy between the Ministry of Home Affairs and Dungannon Board of Guardians about the Guardians’ right to claim old-age pensions towards the cost of maintenance of pensioners in Dungannon Hospital was settled at Thursday’s ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1935
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE WINDFALL

... WORKHOUSE WINDFALL GUARDIANS TO TAKE £425 FROM £1,025 PAID TO INMATE Barnstaple Guardians’ Committee decided yesterday deduct from £1,025 receivedby John James Latham, inmate of Barnstaple Poor-law Institution, for work done him in America twenty-four ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1932
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Avoiding the Workhouse

... Avoiding the Workhouse. “ It is one of the results of the old-age pension,” he said. keep out the workhouse and draw the old-age pension they will get any sort of cherp house to live in, and they have in many cases in Bradford and elsewhere found tiheir ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1930
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STRUGGLE AT WORKHOUSE

... STRUGGLE WORKHOUSE. A dispute about a Knife at Otley Work house had a sequel at Otley court to-day ‘ when Samuel Bates (36). miner, a native of County Durham, was sent to prison for 14 Gays for assaulting an officer at the Insti. tution. Walter John Reedy ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1935
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 7 | Tags: none