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Case 1399

1. Application to the Waifs and Strays' Society 18 May 1888

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Application number 2617
Accepted number 1399
Name P
Age 8
Present address [Hul] Rd Hampstead
Legitimate? no
Baptised? yes
Mother alive? no
Father alive? no
Sisters (how many?) none
Brothers (how many?) one
Medical Certificate? none
Free or part payment Free
Decision of Committee Recommend Executive to accept as a free case (see case agenda 20/4/88)
Recommendation adopted
28/5/88

Wrote to Rev Bullock 29/8/88

12 June 1888
Boarded out with Mr. A [first] Waldingfield under [ltr] Care of Rev F Braithwaite Waldingfield Rectory

4/6 per week paid foster mother
[?] of The Wakes Delbourne Alton Hants sent on May 15/88 £6 for the case of Sydney Howman [that] case having been withdrawn he on June 15th consented to it being transferred to this boy [?]. On May 17/88 [?] wrote I cannot promise to continue my contribution longer than for one year [but] I will do so if other calls on me permit

Apl. 25/89 Miss Keeling of 3 [Epex] Villas [Kem] writes I am quite willing that the payment hitherto made for J shall be transferred in future to the case of P

25 May 1893
Transferred to Jersey Working Boys Home 107 Hamford Street Blackfriars

15 August 1893 left the Jersey Working Boys Home & gone to live with his grandmother

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