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Desperate times: The Workhouse

Section of the Atcham Poor Law Union Minute book, from 1851
An opportunity for Sarah Oliver [Shropshire Archive reference: PL1/2/2/3]

On the report of the clerk that he knew of a situation in which Sarah Oliver would probably be engaged if she applied for the place ordered that she be discharged from the workhouse.The clerk to have discretionary power to give readmission if she is not engaged on trial.

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