Clifden Poor Law Union archive collection, Descriptive List, GPL3.pdf

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- Various entries relating to the administration of vaccines under the compulsory vaccine
scheme, such as f55.
- „The Medical Officer desires to bring under the notice of the Board the state of the sewage of
the workhouse. Some of drains have become choked and would require to be opened and
cleaned out. This is necessary for the sanitary state of the House and should be immediately
attended to‟ (f124).
- „Pat Conneely 107 who was taken here by the Mission agents wishes to become a R Catholic.
He refused to go out with the parties who took him here. His father called here on yesterday
and desired to have the boy‟s religious denomination changed from Protestant to Roman
Catholic.
Ordered. That the putative father be prosecuted‟ (f134, see also f145 &, f155).
34. 24 January 1866 – 5 September 1866 Includes:-
- Notice of Motion to „...request that the Commissioners be requested to remove from the
Clifden Dispensary District the Island of Bofin and have it formed into a separate district or
otherwise have it annexed to the Renvyle Dispensary District. the said Island of Bofin having
no claim whatever on the Clifden District, it being a portion of the County of Mayo‟ (f165).
- „An illegitimate child named Peter Jennings born in the workhouse (now three and a half years
old) and then charged to the Electoral Division to which the mother belonged, the mother and
child frequently left the House and returned again, but are said to be 30 months in the House
out of the three and a half years.
The child has been now admitted on its own account as deserted. It was never in the Division
to which the mother belonged.
The Board requests the Commissioners will be good enough to say whether the child is now
chargeable to the Union at large or to the electoral division to which the mother was
chargeable when in the house‟ (f175, see also f185).
- „Ordered That Honor Conneely be discharged for refusing to swear information against the
father of her illegitimate child and prosecuted for destroying the Union property‟ (f176).
- Minutes relating to the absence of the inmate Margaret Mulkerrins (f236).
35. 26 September 1866 – 15 May 1867 Includes:
- „Ordered That Rose Martin, being able-bodied and plenty of work going on outside the
workhouse at present, be discharged‟ (f114, see also f214).
- Transcript of letter from Dr Browne MD, County Infirmary, Surgeon, Professor Queen‟s
College, Galway, regarding the medical condition of Dr Suffield, Medical Officer for Clifden
Dispensary District (f126, see also ff196-197, see also ff256-257 and GPL3/36, f5, f15, f75,
f85, and GPL3/37, f195 & f225, GPL3/38, ff65-67).
107 Born in the workhouse to Kate Davin on 11 Jan 1858, baptized a RC.
Cartlann Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe „…cuimhne dhoiciméadach Chontae na Gaillimhe a shealbhú, a chaomhnú agus a dhéanamh inrochtana’
Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
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