Content: Folios 412-413. Letter from G Brown, [George Brown] to the Poor Law Board, relating …

Description: Content: Folios 412-413. Letter from G Brown, [George Brown] to the Poor Law Board, relating to the case of the widow Ballam. She was a native of Lymington but has lived in Southampton for the last eleven years. She supported herself as a nurse until age and infirmity disabled her. Until the previous May the Southampton Incorporation partially relieved her, but in that month they discontinued her relief on the grounds that the Lymington Poor Law Union was responsible for her relief. In a letter from A J Brine, the secretary of the Lymington Union, they declined any responsibility for her. Mr Brown then wrote to the Southampton guardians asking them to resume paying her partial out relief. The guardians declined and instead offered her a place in the workhouse. Widow Ballam did not want to go to the workhouse. She felt she could support herself with out relief together with the small earnings which she still made as a nurse. Moreover, she felt her age of 67 entitled her to out relief. Also includes a letter from Brown, to the Southampton Board of Guardians, dated 27 November 1851, relating to the case of the widow Mary Ballam. He asks them to resume paying out-relief to Mary Ballam as she is only being saved from starvation by the kindness of friends. Paper Number: 48256/1851. Poor Law Union Number 407. Counties: Hampshire.

Date: 02/12/1851

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