All entries from Pontypool Board of Guardians minute book unless otherwise noted | |||||
Jones | James | a pauper | 1771 | bur St Peters | |
Lewis | Mary | wid a pauper | 1776 | bur St Peters | |
Frederick | Mary | the widow of Isaac Frederick a pauper | 1778 | bur St Peters | |
Brooke | Anne | a paper | 1779 | bur St Peters | |
Morgan | John | a pauper | 1779 | bur St Peters | |
Widow | Elizabeth | a pauper | 1779 | bur St Peters | |
Jenkins | Mary | widow of Walter Jenkins yeoman a pauper | 1780 | bur St Peters | |
Morgan | Mary | a pauper | 1781 | bur St Peters | |
Thomas Gilbert’s Act For the Better Relief and Employment of the Poor unions of parishes could set up a common workhouse although this was to be for the benefit only of the old, the sick and infirm, and orphan children | 1782 | ||||
Jenkins | Elizabeth | alias Gwylym a pauper | 1783 | bur St Peters | |
Jones | Catherine | a pauper | 1786 | bur St Peters | |
James | Ann | a pauper | 1790 | bur St Peters | |
Philips | blank | a pauper | 1790 | bur St Peters | |
Williams | John | s/o Richard Williams a pauper | 1790 | bur St Peters | |
Prosser | Walter | a pauper | 1791 | bur St Peters | |
blank | Ann | a pauper | 1791 | bur St Peters | |
Pound ?? | Ann | a pauper | 1792 | bur St Peters | |
Philip Watkin | Richard | a pauper | 1792 | bur St Peters | |
Samson | William | a pauper | 1792 | bur St Peters | |
Thomas | Elizabeth | a pauper | 1793 | bur St Peters | |
Sir William Young introduced An Act to Amend so much of an Act… as prevents the distributing occasional relief to poor persons in their own houses, under certain circumstances and in certain cases. (36 Geo. III c.23). | 1795 | ||||
Repealed some of the provisions of Knatchbull’s Act & gave greater powers to local magistrates to order outdoor relief. Not universally popular measure and may have encouraged some parishes to form Gilbert’s Unions which were exempt from such measures. | |||||
Paid to the workhouse £9.4.0 (overseers accounts restart) | 1800 | 71.18 | |||
Paid to the workhouse £8.0.0 Straw for the workhouse 2/- | 1801 | 71.18 pic 46 | |||
Allowed Walter Griffiths (he was overseer of the poor for that year) for the workhouse 14/- | 1802 | 71.18 pic 48 | |||
workhouse not mentioned | 1803 | 71.18 | |||
straw for the workhouse 4/- | 1804 | 71.18 pic 50 | |||
Thomas David’s overseer for 1805 – account missing | 1805 | 71.18 | |||
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse £6.10.0 shirt & trousers 8/11 | 1806 | 71.18 pic 54 | |
missing | 1807 | 71.18 | |||
Kittys | Nest | decision to build a house for Catherine Jenkins on a plot of land belonging to the parish at the expense of the parish | 1808 | 71.03 pic 3 | |
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse £6.10.0 jacket & trousers 13/- | 1808 | 71.18 pic 56 | |
Evan | Rcd Morgan | in the workhouse £3.18.0 a shirt 5/- breeches 9/- | 1808 | 71.18 pic 56 | |
Morgan | William | in the workhouse 27 weeks @ 1/6 removing to the workhouse 2/6 | 1808 | 71.18 pic 56 | |
for mending the workhouse windows 7/6 | 1808 | 71.18 pic 56 | |||
Williams | George | Pauper | 1808 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Lewis | Margaret | Pauper | 1808 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Lewis | Henry | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | ||
Williams | Mary | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | ||
Evan | Rcd Morgan | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | ||
Morgan | William | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | ||
additional rent for the workhouse for half a year 7/6 | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | |||
Straw for the workhouse 8/- | 1809 | 71.18 pic 58 | |||
1810 | 71.18 pic 58 | ||||
1811 | |||||
Jane | Higgins | 27 Dec parishioners of Clytha indemnify Goytre against expense of child about to be born in workhouse. bap Goy 12 Jan 1812 Mary d/o William Powell and Jane Higgins | 1811 | 020 | |
Leek | Charles | Pauper | 1812 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Jenkins | Catherine | Pauper | 1812 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Candia Morgan @ 1/6 week £3.18.0 | 1813 | ||||
Morgan | Candia | 42 weeks @ 1/6 £3.3.0 Funeral £1.1.0 not buried Goytre | 1814 | ||
Lewis | Henry | £8.4.5 | 1814 | pg 67 | |
Evan | Rcd Morgan | 46 weeks & Funeral £5.0.10 | 1814 | pg 67 | |
straw for the workhouse 10/- | 1814 | pg 67 | |||
Evans | Richard | Work House 61 | 1814 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Saunders | Samuel | Work House 40 | 1814 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Peter | Edward | Work House 32 | 1814 | Bur reg St Peters | |
Jones | Daniel | with his sister £7.18.7 Irish cloth | 1815 | p 69 | |
On account of enlarging the cottage called Cathy’s Nest £7.1.8 | 1815 | ||||
enlarging Cathy’s nest above the estimate | 1815 | pic 75a | |||
Straw & coal £1.6.6 | 1815 | p 69 | |||
Corn Law prohibited the importation of corn into Britain until the home price reached 80 shillings per quarter. The cost of a four pound loaf of bread in London averaged over one shilling between 1816 and 1818. See 1846 | 1815 | ||||
The result was that ordinary workers could not afford to buy bacon eggs, cheese, milk etc. as well as bread at these times. Rise in relief | 1815 | ||||
Poor Law Act extended the power to give outdoor relief. | 1815 | ||||
Lewis | Henry | £6.14.3 | 1816 | 75 | |
Jones | Daniel | £7.8.7 | 1816 | 75 | |
Jones | David | Journey to the doctor and Pontypool to bring him to the workhouse in a cart £5.0.4 | 1816 | 75 | |
straw for the workhouse 10/- bed cord 2/6 and coal 7/- | 1816 | ||||
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse £6.10.0 shirts trousers £7.9 | 1817 | pg 77 | |
Prichard | Elizabeth | workhouse, clothing & shoes £7.17.6 | 1817 | pg 77 | |
straw 3/- coal 8/- mending the windows 2/8 | 1817 | pg 77 | |||
Ann Nicholas with William Jones 37 weeks @ 2/6 and William Rosser 15 weeks 2/3 | 1818 | 71.18 | |||
John Prosser with Mary Francis £7.2.6 | 1818 | 71.18 | |||
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse £6.10.0 shirt, shoes, jacket, breeches £7.4.0 | 1818 | 71.18 | |
Prichard | Elizabeth | in workhouse and lodging £6.10 stockings 1/2 £6.11.2 | 1818 | 71.18 | |
Yorath | Mary | 37 weeks @ 3/- £5.11.0 | 1818 | 71.18 | |
Watkins | Margaret | workhouse 32 weeks 4/- £6.8.0 | 1818 | 71.18 | |
Ann Nicholas with William Rosser 52 @ 2/- Clothing 7/2 £5.11.0 | 1819 | p 82 | |||
Francis | Mary | John Prosser with Mary Francis 48 weeks @ 2/6 4 @ 2/- £6.8.0 | 1819 | p 82 | |
Lewis | Henry | workhouse 2/6 week smock frock 4/- 2 pairs of breeches 9/6 £7.3.6 | 1819 | p 82 | |
Prichard | Eliz | in workhouse 26 weeks @ 2/6 26 weeks @ 2/- shoes 5/- handkerchief 1/3 caps 1/6 smock 3/- mending her bedgown 2/3 £6.9.9 | 1819 | p 82 | |
Watkins | Margaret | in workhouse 12 weeks @ 4/-smock 3/- coffin 17/- shroud, laying her out 5/- Parson 1/6 clerk 2/6 Beer 5/- My journey for the shroud 2/6 £4.13.6 | 1819 | p 82 | |
Watkins | Margaret | Poor House 90 | 1819 | Bur St Pet | |
Jenkin Rosser a premium with David Nicholas £6 | 1819 | p 82 | 89 | ||
Mary Morgan for Daniel Jones £2..2.0 | 1819 | p 82 | |||
Straw 8/- coal 9/- | 71.18 | ||||
Nicholas | Ann | Wm Rosser with Ann Nicholas | 1820 | p 84 | |
Lewis | Harry | 2/6 per week , shirt, smock & trousers £7.7.7 | 1820 | p 84 | |
Prichard | Eliz | 2/- per week clothing 10/7 £5.14.7 | 1820 | p 84 | |
straw and coal 16/5 | 1820 | p 84 | |||
Lewis | Harry | 1821 | p 86 | ||
Prichard | Eliz | Jenkin Rosser house rent | 1821 | p 86 | |
James | Margaret | 1821 | p 86 | ||
Jones | Christopher | 1821 | p 86 | ||
straw and coal 18/ – | 1821 | p 86 | |||
Thomas Jenkins with William Jeremiah 4 weeks and Wm Moses 48 weeks | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |||
John Prosser with Wm Lewis 52 weeks | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |||
Lewis | Herny | £7.7.2 | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |
Prichard | Eliz | £5/8 | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |
James | Margaret | in workhouse 39 weeks @ 2/- Charity 6/- Smock 2/- Stockings 1/8 Coffin 17/- etc £5.16.0 | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |
James | Margaret | Poor House 84 | 1822 | Bur St Pet | |
Jones | Christopher | 9 days 15/- lodging 2/- Charity £2.9 Bed & Bed clothes £1.3.11 £4.19.11 | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |
Jones | John | Tailor and wife in the workhouse 9 weeks @ 4/- Charity 10/- Warrant, Journey to Llandilio 2/6 Bed & Bedclothes £1.2.0 £3.12.6 | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |
straw and coal 18/ – | 1822 | 28 Mar 1823 p93 | |||
Lewis | Herny | £7.1.6 | 1823 | p 97 | |
Prichard | Eliz | £5.7.0 | 1823 | p 97 | |
Jones | John | tailor and wife in the workhouse £9.16.0 28 weeks in 28 weeks out. | 1823 | p 97 | |
straw and coal 18/ – | 1823 | p 97 | |||
Lewis | Herny | £7.1.4 | 1824 | p 102 | |
Prichard | Eliz | £5.18.9 | 1824 | p 102 | |
Morgan | Margaret | and son in workhouse warant on John Morgan £4.10.6 | 1824 | p 102 | |
Lewis | Herny | in the workhouse 2/6 Clothing £1.2.7 £7.12.7 | 1825 | 1825 – 26 p 106 | |
Prichard | Eliz | 2/- clothing 4/6 £5.8.6 | 1825 | 1825 – 26 p 106 | |
straw, coal and sheeting £1.7.2 | 1825 | 1825 – 26 p 106 | |||
Jones | Joshua | Work House in Goytre 89 | 1825 | Bur St Pet | |
Bevan | Elizabeth | in Goy workhouse she and her child will be chargeable to LK. bap Goytre 29 July 1825 Thomas ill son Thomas Prichard Lab and Eliz Bevan
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1825 | 027 | |
Phillips | Francis | Work-house 82 | 1826 | Bur St Pet | |
Lewis | Herny | 2/6 per week | 182? | p 110 | |
Prichard | Eliz | 2/- per week Apron 1/8 Handkerchief 9d Serge 1/3 Calico 6/- Stockings 1/6 mending her clothes 1/-, making her a bedgown, apron and hemming a handkerchief 1/- £5.12.2 | 182? | p 110 | |
Williams | Thomas | 3 days 1/- | 182? | p 110 | |
Williams | David | Work House 75 | 1827 | Bur St Pet | |
coal and straw 20/- | 182? | p 110 | |||
Phillips | Mary | 51 weeks @ 2/6 Bacon 1/- Removing her to the workhouse 2/- shoes 6/- stockings 1/4 Petticoat, smock, apron, caps, handkerchief £6.17.10 | 1828 | Apr 28 – Mar 29 p146 | |
Lewis | Herny | in the workhouse 2/6 blanket & jacket, trousers, one shirt pair of stockings £6.10.0 | 1828 | Apr 28 – Mar 29 p146 | |
Prichard | Eliz | in workhouse 2/6 smock, handkerchief, caps, stockings £5.4.0 | 1828 | Apr 28 – Mar 29 p146 | |
Change of clothing for the workhouse paupers £2.11.2 | 1828 | Apr 28 – Mar 29 p146 | |||
Morgan | John | wife and child in the workhouse 33 weeks 3 days@5/2 £8.13.0 rest of family with Philip Vallant | 1828 | Apr 28 – Mar 29 p146 | |
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse 2/6 week £6.10 shirt 3/6 tot £6.13.6 | 1829 | Mar 29 – Mar 30 p 149 | |
Prichard | Eliz | 2/- a week £5.4.0 | 1829 | Mar 29 – Mar 30 p 149 | |
Phillips | Mary | in workhouse 2 weeks 2/6 week Coffin 17/- shroud 6/6 laying out 2/6 drink funeral 5/- journey for shroud 2/6 Parson 1/6 Sexton 2/6 £2.2.6 | 1829 | Mar 29 – Mar 30 p 149 | |
Straw for the workhouse coals 0.18.0 | 1829 | Mar 29 – Mar 30 p 151b | |||
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse 26 weeks @ 2/6 £3.5.0, a shirt 2/9, Trousers 6/7 | 1830 | Mar – Sep | |
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse 2/6 £3.5.0 | 1830 | Mar – Sep p 155 | |
Prichard | Mary | 24 weeks @ 2/- £2.8.0 Coffin 17/- Shroud 3/8 laying out 2/6 Parson 1/6 Sexton 2/6 Beer 5/- journey for the shroud 2/6 new suit of clothes 10/6 £4.19.2 | 1830 | Sep – marp 155 | |
Pritchard | Elizabeth | Workhouse 63 | 1831 | Bur St Pet | |
Valuation of Goytrey taken by ? Davis of Usk taken March & April | 1831 | Mar p 160 | |||
Lewis | Henry | £3.5.0 Coal & Straw 17/- | 1831 | Mar 28th p 159 | |
Lewis | Henry | in the workhouse 2/6 week £6.10 shirt etc tot £6.17.11 | 1831 | Mar 1831 – 32 p 169 | |
Williams | Thomas | workhouse 36 weeks flour leather shoproom and lodgings summons 2/- £6.10.4 | 1831 | Mar 1831 – 32 p 169 | |
Davies | John | 1 week in workhouse wife 2 weeks paid 7/- to go away £0.17.6 | 1831 | Mar 1831 – 32 p 169 | |
Prosser | James | paid interest on £20 | 1831 | Mar 1831 – 32 p 171 | |
paid 16/- for coal and straw for the workhouse | 1831 | Mar 1831 – 32 p 171 | |||
Harris | John | agreed to pay John Harris 1/6 a week for the maintenance of Margaret Morgan (Margarets father Francis died 1827 poss Wern Verrig) | 1832 | Sep 12 p 22 | |
Paid Phillip Vallants salary £2.0.0 Churchwardens accounts | 1832 | p 124 allowed Apr 11 1833 | |||
Lewis | Henry | Henry Lewis 52 weeks 2/6 wk £6.10 7 yds blanketing for smock & trousers tot £7.4.2 | 1832 | Mar 26 175 | |
Jones | William | 52 weeks 2/- relief shirt £5.11.3 | 1832 | Mar 26 175 | |
Edwards | Thos | 32 weeks £4.6.10 | 1832 | Mar 26 175 | |
Vallant | Walter | 8 weeks in workhouse etc £3.6.0 | 1832 | Mar 26 175 | |
Margaret Morgan 2 weeks at 3/- John Harris & witnesses going to Usk to consult with Mr McDonnnell respecting her New Inn expenses warrant constables witnesses £0.15.0 | 1832 | Apr 16 177 | |||
Lewis | William | William Lewis Poor House Penpelleni 75 | 1833 | June 18 | |
Henry Lewis £7.15.9 William Jones £5.15.9 Walter Vallant £5.6.0 in the workhouse | 1834 | Apr 1 p 179 | |||
Elizabeth Plaisted 85 died at Goytre Workhouse buried Llanover | 1835 | Feb 1 | |||
Ann Morgan 82 died workhouse bur Goytre | 1835 | Feb 1 | |||
Henry Leiws £6.10.0, William Jones £5.5.3 and Walter Vallant £6.11.0 | 1835 | Mar 30 | |||
Henry Lewis, William Jones and Walter Vallant in the workhouse as usual | 1835 | Apr 16 | |||
Thomas Barram 67 died workhouse Goytre | 1835 | Apr 26 | |||
agreed by the overseer to allow all necessary clothes for the parish beds in the workhouse. | 1835 | Overseers 18 | |||
Richard Jones takes a cottage called Catty’s Nest at a rent of £2 paid quarterly | 1835 | Sep 25 D Pa 71.18 photo 31 | |||
Kittys | Nest | Repairs done to Cathy’s nest Thatcher, Straw £1.4.3 | 1836 | D pa 71.18 pic 189 | |
Morgan | Margaret | paid 52 wks at 2/- a wk £6.4.0 Henry Lewis, £7.18.11 William Jones £5.17.5 Walter Vallant £6 | 1836 | to March p 189 | |
First entry of Board of Guardians Pontypool Chas Thos Edwards clerk £75 | 1836 | May 24 | |||
resolved unanimously that the weekly meeting of the guardians be held alternatively on Saturdays and Thursday in vestry room Pontypool | 1836 | May 24 | |||
resolved that the several parishes in the union shall be divided into 3 districts and that they will have relieving officers (Goytre in Llangibby district) | 1836 | May 24 | |||
write a report on necessity of erecting a poor house etc | 1836 | May 24 | |||
resolved that all relief hereafter be regarded as given weekly. | 1836 | May 24 | |||
That the clerk be directed to write to the overseers of the Union stating that from and after the first day of July next, all relief will be discontinued unless due cause for its continuance be shown. | 1836 | May 24 | |||
That each non resident pauper do send a certificate accompanying each application for relief signed by the clergyman or two respectable householders of same parish stating her or him to be a fit object for such relief. | 1836 | May 24 | |||
such certificate to be renewed every two months . That each non resident pauper be directed to name a person residing in his parish to receive his or her relief. | 1836 | May 24 | |||
resolved that the parish of Goytrey be added to the Usk district for surgeons. Mr Davies Medical officer for Usk | 1836 | June 4 | |||
Clerk to advertise for bread and flour to be supplied by tender | 1836 | June 4 | |||
Warrants issued to the overseers for payment to the clerk one twelth part of the rates of the respective parishes on or before the 23rd | 1836 | June 4 | |||
General poor house imperitively called for and donation of land by Capel Leigh for building. Goytrey added to Usk District of relieving officer | 1836 | June 9 | |||
Directed to apply for the specification of the erection of the Poor House according to the plans contained in the report of the Poor Law Commissioners. | 1836 | June 9 | |||
Resolved that Goytrey be added to the Usk Division of Receiving Officers | 1836 | June 9 | |||
Resolve that the clerk cause 200 letters with a requisite certificate be printed and forwarded to the several outpaupers | 1836 | June 18 | |||
Upon inquiry it appears inexpedient to contract for either bread or flour at the prices contained in the several tenders. | 1836 | June 23 pg 7 | |||
At a meeting held the 9th day of June it was agreed by the major part of the parishioners to present a petition to the Board of Guardians of the Pontypool Union that they wish to withdraw from said Union … | 1836 | June 9 Overseer 18 | |||
Several parishes including Goytrey settled as to weekly pay | 1836 | June 23 | |||
Many parishes paid their contributions. Resolved that the clerk apply to the overseers apply to the parishes Tev, Usk Glas Gwerl Upp Llanfrech & Goytrey for the immediate payment to the treasurer for their contribution. | 1836 | July 2 | |||
Resolved that the time for the outpaupers being struck off unless proper certificates be sent in is extended to the first day of August. | 1836 | July 2 | |||
Resolved that until a general workhouse for the union be ready for the reception of Paupers that such house or houses be prepared for the reception of children and such other paupers as may from time to time be deemed necessary. | 1836 | July 2 | |||
Margaret Morgan 14 @ 2/- £1.8 Henry Lewis to Jun 1 £1.12.6 Wm Jones £1.6 Walter Vallant £1.6 A thrave of straw, (24 sheaves) additional allowance for the workhouse £0.17.6 | 1836 | Mar – 4 July | |||
agreed to present a petition to the Booard of Guardians that Mr Bowyer be instituted relieving officer instead of James Blythe | 1836 | July 7 Overseers 18 | |||
Resolved that poor house should be erected to hold 150 paupers and easily enlarged to 200. Plans to be prepared. | 1836 | July 7 pg 13 | |||
Francis Morgan buried Goytre died Goytre Workhouse | 1836 | July 11 | |||
A letter having been addressed to the Board of Guardians from Mr John Lawrence of the overseers of Usk dated 15th instant referring to some private arrangements | 1836 | July 16 p 13 | |||
by which he accounts for the non payment of the account named in the warrant directed to the Overseers of the Parish. | July 16 p 13 | ||||
It is resolved that the clerk write to inform him that the distrct cannot recognise any private arrangement between the overseers. | 1836 | July 16 p 13 | |||
and that he had been instructed to take any necessary steps to enforce payment unless the same be made before Thursday next. Resolved that the same will be adopted towards all other parishes in default. | 1836 | July 16 p 14 | |||
Arnold | John | 62 Monkswood wife and two children 11 & 9 to received temp relief | 1836 | July 16 p 15 | |
Application from the keeper of the Goytrey workhouse for 50/- quarters bill for maintenance of poor – to be considered at next meeting. | 1836 | July 16 p 15 | |||
Building report accepted site still to be approved | 1836 | July 21 pg 18 | |||
weekly meeting now held on Thursdays. A order from Mr J H poole for 6 double bedsteads 6′ x 3’6″ at 17/6 each and also that he order the necessary articles of straw mattresses & bedclothes fitting the same | 1836 | July 21 pg 18 | |||
Arnold | John | Monkswood applied for relief – ordered that the relieving officer take possession of his machinery and that he be allowed 2/6 weekly | 1836 | July 21 pg 18 | |
Jeremiah | Ann | Goytrey to be allowed 2/- instead of 1/3 weekly | 1836 | July 21 pg 18 | |
Lewis | Rachel | Goytrey 25 applied for relief – she is very ill having been confined 5 weeks of a bastard child – to be allowed 1/6. Ordered that the clerk apply to George Appleton Garndiffaith miner who is the reputed father of the child | 1836 | July 21 pg 18 | |
Holmes | Rachel | Removed from Bettws Newydd to Goytrey to be allowed out relief not exceeding 2/- a week | 1836 | July 22 pg12 Aber | |
Resolved that the clerk write to Mr Poole for six iron bedsteads which are not to be painted – the same are to be forwarded by Manchester boat to Newport and thence by canal to Pontypool. | 1836 | July 30 pg 21 | |||
Daniel | Ann | the woman who keeps the Panteg Poor House at 9/- a quarter from 5 parishes | 1836 | July 30 pg 21 | |
Resolved that the several parishes of Panteg, Llanfrechfa, upper & lower Glascoed and Llan Pontymoil be directed immediately to dissolve any contract may exist between them and (blank) Daniel in consequence of the conduct of Ann Daniel matron thereof | 1836 | July 30 pg 22 | |||
James | Rachel | resided at Pontypool an outpauper from Goytrey to be continued 1/- weekly | 1836 | Aug 4 pg 23 | |
Mr Bowyer is directed to apply to Elizabeth Morgan Llanfrechva Lower to offer her the situation of matron to the Panteg Workhouse. | 1836 | Aug 4 pg 24 | |||
Mr Bowyer having inquired into the fitness of Elizabeth Morgan to Superintend the Panteg workhouse reports that her heart is not sufficiently good for such a situation. | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 24 | |||
Resolved that warrants be issued to the overseers for the payment to the treasurer of the twelth part of the rates of the respective parishes on or before the 26th instant. | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 25 | |||
Gwillim | Richard | Monkswood – an outpauper at Goytrey having applied to Mr Bowyer for further relief to be allowed 6d weekly in advance | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 25 | |
Prosser | Philip | Mamhilad a shoemaker aged 58 years – has a wife – outpauper at Goytrey to be allowed 1/- weekly | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 25 | |
Resolved that a return be made at the next meeting by the respective relieving officers of the several workhouses in each of their districts and the amount of rent paid for these houses | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 26 | |||
Resolved that Mr Bowyer be directed to take possession of the Panteg workhouse and manage the same until further arrangements be made. | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 26 | |||
Appleton | George | Varteg the reputed father of a bastard child of the body of Rachel Lewis – Goytrey -The relieving officer is directed to obtain a warrant against him to an order at the next sessions | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 26 | |
The clerk is ordered to get the bedsteads painted black and forward them to the workhouse | 1836 | Aug 13 pg 27 | |||
The relieving officers not having had sufficient time to make a return of the several workhouses in each of their districts and the amount of rent paid for such houses resolved that they be directed to do so on Saturday 27th instant | 1836 | Aug 18 pg 28 | |||
Phillips | Ann | 89 to be paid 2/6 weekly as long as a certain arrangement may exist between her son and the parish of Goytrey for the occupation of a house and land in the said parish be which he will bind himself to pay them £5 yearly | 1836 | Aug 18 pg 28 | |
Lewis | Rachel | Goytrey – has a bastard child. She states that George Appleton is the father – he told her his name was George Morgan but she was living with her mother – resolved that she be allowed 1/6 a week as usual. | 1836 | Aug 18 pg 29 | |
Francis | Susan | Goytrey she now lived with Mr Williams Ternewidd at £4.10.0 a year. She has a bastard child. It is proposed to pay 6d weekly and she to provide child with clothes. The child to be allowed 2/- weekly | 1836 | Aug 18 pg 29 | |
Resolved that Mr Edward Bowyer is appointed governor of the Panteg workhouse at an additional salary of £20 a year to commence from the time of his taking the management | 1836 | Aug 18 pg 33 | |||
It appearing by the treasurers account that the following parishes have paid their contributions on the 26th August last (Goytre paid £13.10.0) | Sep 1 pg 34 | ||||
Resolved that the several Overseers of the Poor of each Parish will be directed to apprentice such children that will be chargeable to the Parishes respectively as they will attain the proper ages. | Sep 1 pg 37 | ||||
relieving officers are directed to deliver at the next meeting a list of such persons who are fit objects in the several parishes to be placed in the workhouse or be reduced in their pay. | Sep 1 pg 37 | ||||
Henry Lewis, Wm Jones and Walter Vallant & Quarterly allowance to the workhouse 12/6 | Sep 1 1836 p197a | ||||
Ordered Mary Morgan, William Williams and William Daniel of Llanwenarth now at Goytrey be sent to Bedwelty House. | 1836 | Sep 1 Abergavenny | |||
Ordered that the medical officer be requested to furnish James Cobner Llanarth with a double truss. | 1836 | Sep 8 Abergavenny | |||
Ordered that William Jones in Goytrey Workhouse and belonging to Llanvair be removed to Abergavenny House. | 1836 | Sep 8 Abergavenny | |||
Poor Law Commissioners to sanction Mr Bowyer as Gov of Panteg temp Poor House | Sep 24 pg 43 | ||||
resolved that notice be given by handbills requiring tenders for supplying the several workhouses in the union as well as the poor in the different parishes | Oct 8 | ||||
with bread and the necessaries and that such tenders be delivered to the clerk on or before the 21st | Oct 8 | ||||
Orders were accordingly signed directing the parish officers of the several parishes to pay the following sums namely Goytre £13.10.0 | Oct 8 | ||||
Prosser | Philip | Mamhilad – living at Goytre his pay to be increased by the relieving officer until the next meeting | Oct 8 | ||
Prosser | Margt | widow of Phillip Prosser Mamhilad (60) applied for relief. Allowed 2/- | Oct 22 | ||
Daniel | Mary | now in the Panteg workhouse applied to be discharged from the workhouse and to have an allowance of weekly pay – her child is 2 years old. Refused but is to be allowed a pair of shoes for the child not exceeding 2/6 | Oct 22 | ||
Jenkins | Mary | daughter fo Charles Jenkins residing at Mamhilad. She has bastard child 5 weeks old. Thomas Stephens of Goytre is the child. | Oct 22 | ||
Charles Jenkins lived with the late Mr Philip Rees of Usk from whence he was married and resided ever since in Croesynypant at the yearly rental of £4.0.0 his daughter never gained a settlement in her own right. | Oct 22 | ||||
The tender of Charles James Phillips for bread being the lowest, resolved that it be accepted for the workhouse of Pontypool and Panteg until the 21st day of Dav | Oct 22 | ||||
Resolved that the tender of Mr William Herbert for supplying the workhouses with shop goods (bread excepted) and ordered that the contract and receipts be forthwith entered in | Oct 22 | ||||
Thomas | Margaret | 25 Trevethin her settlement at Goytre – she is confined and has 2 children. The relieving officer is directed inquire if the parish of Goytre will accept her as a pauper. | Oct 22 | ||
Ordered that the paupers with the Goytrey workhouse be forthwith removed to the Panteg workhouse. | 1836 | Oct 27 | |||
For a cart removing 3 paupers to the workhouse | 1836 | Oct 31 | |||
Mr Bowyer is directed to report at the next meeting what clothing will be required for the two workhouses | 1836 | Nov 3 p 201 | |||
Mr Bowyer reports that the following clothing is requisite namely for Panteg workhouse | 1836 | Nov 10 | |||
Jones | William | 83 requires one flannel shirt, one short flannel smock frock, one flannel trousers and one pair of stockings. | 1836 | Nov 10 | |
Prosser | James | 79 requires one shirt, one short flannel smock frock | 1836 | Nov 10 | |
Lewis | Henry | Goytrey 79 requires the same as William Jones | 1836 | Nov 10 | |
James | Rachel | Goytrey residing at pontypool to be allowed 2/- temporary relief. | 1836 | Nov 10 | |
Thomas | Margaret | 25 Trevethin it is ordered that proposals be made to the parish of Goytre that the expense of enquiring into the settlement of the pauper should be borne equally between Goytre | 1836 | Mov 19 | |
Nov 23rd paid £13.10 to the treasurer of the Union | Mov 19 | ||||
Mr C J Phiilips was paid £7.18.4 for bread supplied to the Panteg workhouse and the Pontypool district | 1836 | Nov 24 | |||
Rowllins | Joseph | 24 who died with his father at Monkswood his wife in with her father at Goytrey he was a farmers servant – applied for medical relief – his child’s head being bad he gets 5/- a week and his board | Dec 3 pg 78 | ||
James | Rachel | To be allowed 1/6 weekly instead of 1/- for the present | Dec 8 | ||
Edwards | Elizabeth | 85 Goytrey to be allowed 2/6 weekly instead of 2/- | Dec 8 | ||
Jones | Mary | (Rydy lloyfen) Goytrey her pay to be stopped she has a property in which she resides | Dec 8 | ||
Morgan | William | (Little Skirrid) Goytre to appear | Dec 17 | ||
Mr Bowyer is directed to purchase calico and worsted for the use of the Panteg workhouse | Dec 17 | ||||
Morgan | William | (Little Skirrid) Goytrey to appear at the next meeting and bring a certificate | Dec 22 | ||
Morgan | William | Goytrey residing at Llantillio Pertholey – a certificate from the clergyman of the parish and also a letter from a clerk of the Abergavenny Union were read. The Board considers that the present payment of 3/- should not be disturbed | Jan 5 | ||
Jones | Mary | The fact of her having property not being correct it is ordered that her pay of 1/- weekly be reinstated | Jan 5 | ||
Jenkins | Mary | Usk living with her father in Mamhilad has a bastard child Thomas Stephen – woodcutter of Goytrey is the father. Mary Brooks lives at Mamhilad she knowing Mary Jenkins as well as Thomas Stephens – | Jan 5 | ||
Jenkins | Mary | she has heard Thos Stephens say that Mary Jenkins was in the family way by him and that he intends to marry her – 1/6 weekly | Jan 5 | ||
Wilks | John | Glascoed A bastard son of Hannah Waters who on the 11th January 1836 was married to john Jenkins at LO church. – | 1837 | Jan 14 | |
Wilks | ordered that the clerk write to Mrs Wilks Goytrey Wharf stating that if the child is not maintained by his friends an application will be made to John Jenkins immediately | Jan 14 | |||
Cheque on Treasurer a loan to John Morgan £3.1.0 | 1837 | Sept 2 A/cs | |||
To the treasurer £32.8.0 | 1837 | Sep 16 | |||
To the treasurer £56.12.11 | 1838 | ||||
Jones | William | Penpellenni 92 | 1840 | Bur St Pet | |
Prosser | James | Goytrey 82 | 1851 | Bur St Pet | |
Lewis | Henry | Goytre 86? yrs (81 from bap) | 1854 |