Folder Title
Extracts from an old overseers’ account book of the parish of Stapleford
Dates covered by subject material
1754-58, 1769, 1795-98
Size of Folder
16 sheets
Content contains Originals / Photocopies / Transcripts / Notes
Photocopies of a transcript made in 1876 of sections from the account book of the parish overseers of the poor
Where originals are if not included
Cambridgeshire Archives: P144/12/6
Subject Material
Records of payments and support in kind to Stapleford residents for various purposes: for the poor, payments of rent, for clothes, for coal; to various people for killing vermin; to the parish constables and the overseers for their expenses; also calculations relating to overall budget and to levying of rates to meet needs
References to Names
Many beneficiaries named; also successive constables, overseers, and others occasionally involved such as doctors
References to Places
Some references to visits to Cambridge, and to nearby villages, in connection with these responsibilities.