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Case 2258

1. Application to Waifs and Strays' Society 23 October 1889

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Application number 3797
Accepted number 2258
Name E
Age 6
Present address Beccles Suffolk
Legitimate? no
Baptised? yes
Mother alive? yes
Father alive?
Sisters (how many?)
Brothers (how many?) one
Medical Certificate? none
Free or part payment Free
Decision of Committee defer to ascertain why the child cannot be committed under the Act see case agenda Nov. 7/[?] Wrote to Rev. R 12/4/89

Accept as a [2.6 for 1.0] see case agenda 21 [?] 89

Wrote to Rev. R. 26/8/89

30 December 1889
Boarded out with Mrs. P Carelton Road Attlborough Norfolk under the Sups of

23 Sept. 1892
Restored to his mother

1 March 1893
Received again by the Society [?] ltr above date

The Revd. [Hallowse] of Attleboro. called June 1/94 & reported that this boy was now earning 2/6 a wk. & that after July it will not be necessary to [claim] further for his maintence Hon. F. June 1/97

Miss [?] Carleton Rock Alleborough
9 August 1897 Paid for up to this date from our books [MV]

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