| Description | Includes:
a) Certificate of Goole Guardians dated 8 May 1861
Name: Betsey Ann Woodward
Age: 25
Residence: Snaith and Cowick
Other particulars: chargeable to Snaith and Cowick
b) Account dated 15 May 1861
Name: G England to churchwardens and overseers of Snaith
Other particulars: expenses
c) Examination and draft dated 15 May 1861
Name: Jonathan Wright
Status/occupation: auctioneer and appraiser
Residence: Snaith
Other particulars: uncle by marriage to Betsey Ann Woodward, aged 25. Her father Edward Woodward was a tailor and draper of Green Acre Hill, Oldham. Died when Betsey 5 or 6 and she came to live with Jonathan Wright and wife. She was sent to Wakefield Asylum for short time about 3 years. previously. She visited relatives in Oldham and Manchester and was employed in Oldham for a short period. Returned to Snaith. Eventually went to Goole Union Workhouse.
d) Complaint, draft and copy dated 15 May 1861
Name: Goole Guardians
Other particulars: concerning Betsy Ann Woodward, a lunatic confined at Wakefield Asylum. Settlement adjudged to be Oldham, Lancs.
e) Order for the reception of a pauper patient dated 23 Mar 1861
Name: Betsy Ann Woodward
Age: 25
Status/occupation: single, domestic servant
Residence: Snaith
Other particulars: Wesleyan. Details of symptoms.
f) Letter dated 21 May 1861 from Henry Heworth
Residence: Goole
Other particulars: order for Betsey Woodward. Settlement in Oldham.
g) Letter dated 7 Oct 1861
Name: William Bailey, West Riding Asylum, Wakefield to Thomas Wilson, esq., Clerk to Goole Guardians
Other particulars: costs.
h) Notice of chargeability and statement of grounds for removal and draft annotated copy, 1861, from the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of Snaith and Cowick to the churchwardens, overseers of the poor and Guardians of Oldham
Other particulars: concerning the removal of Betsey Ann Woodward confined to the Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield. In 1836 her father, Edward Woodward, rented from Mr. Schofield a house and shop. Father died Sep 1841 and his widow, Hannah, occupied house for a year afterwards. |