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Case 4255

1. Application to Waifs and Strays' Society April 1894

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Oxford
Application Number
Accepted Number 4255
Name W.
Age 11. 9 months
Address on application Oxford
Legitimate? yes
Baptized? yes
Mother alive? no
Father alive? yes
Sisters (how many?)
Brothers (how many?)
Medical Certificate? none
Free or part payment
Decision of Committee Accept for Ashdon Home by special arrangement made with Miss [?] Cooke of Beckley Grove, Oxford who will be responsible for £13 a year [?] letter from Miss Cooke [?] Apl. 6/94

Red. into Ashdon Home, May 16/94
signature

2nd January 1896 Admitted into Home Boy Brigade [?] Marylebone Road [W.W.]
Wrote Miss Cook [12 Feb. 95]


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