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RefNoKAR60/3
AltRefNoR60/3
TitlePrivate practice records of the clerk to a Poor Law Union
DescriptionIt is not clear which union clerk was responsible for these papers. It may have been J. Deacon Fetch, clerk to the Cambridge Union, or more likely Frederick Barlow, clerk to the Chesterton Union. See individual series for location or transfer of records to other classes. The many numerational gaps in R60/3 are mostly explained by records being removed from the sequence for recataloguing under the Official Records scheme for Boards of Guardians (Poor Law Unions). The whole of R60/3 was artificially split between records begun before 1930 and those begun after that date, and the pre-1930 records were recatalogued using the class prefix G/. It was clearly intended at the time of this recataloguing to describe the post-1930 i.e. Public Assistance records in a new class C/Pa: this can be seen in both the accession register and the annotated list. No recataloguing or further full description of records in this class in fact took place. Records of the Cambridge Manure Company, the Cambridge Vagrancy Committee, some 'uncatalogued' boxes &c. were reallocated into the Unofficial Records scheme reference 253/. A partial draft list was compiled for these but is substandard. Some other papers were physically moved to County Council records, Hospital records etc. and these are included in this list.
(As of June 2011, /55 and /57 moved to G/Ch as likely records of a clerk to Chesterton Poor Law Union, these being in Room B9, the office library and possibly some in Room B4. The ex-Room B26 records have been retained in the 1960 accessions under KAR60)
Date1834-1939
CreatorNameRecords of Clerk to Poor Law Unions
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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