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COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR WISBECH PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
John Brown esq. March
Robert Charles Catling ssq. Needham hall, Elm
The Rev. John Beauvoir Dalison, Upwell rectory
Henry Sharpe esq. Leverington
William Newsham esq. Wilcock, Wisbech St. Mary
Lancelot Reed esq. Elm
Clerk, Francis Jackson, Lower Hill street
Petty sessions are held at the Sessions House, South brink, every saturday at noon. The following places are included in the petty sessional division:--
Elm, Leverington, Parson Drove, Newton, Outwell, Tydd St. Giles, Upwell (Norfolk) [and Upwell (Cambridgeshire)]. Welney, Wisbech St, Mary
Borough Police Station, North brink, Wm. Sharpe, supt.
Burial Board, Francis Jackson, clerk, 18 Lower Hill street
Burial Ground, Mount Pleasant, Jabez Taylor, ground keeper
Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers (1st) E company;
orderly room, Great Church st.; George Carrick, captain
Castle Almshouses, Love lane
Cemetery, Leverington road, James Edward Pratt, sec.;
Robert Jay, ground keeper
County Court, held in the Sessions house, South brink
Edwin Plumer Price esq. Q.C. judge; Frank Metcalfe, registrat,
C. F. Nicole, high bailiff. The district comprises the following parishes, viz.: —Elm, Leveringon, Newton, Outwell, Parson Drove, Tidd St. Giles, Upwell [and Upwell (Norfolk), Walsoken, Walpole St. Peter, West Walton. Wisbech St. Mary & Wisbech St. Peter
Chamber of Agriculture, 1 Bridge street,
William Ludlan Ollard, president; George James Moore, sec.
Corn Exchange, Cornhill
Francis Jackson sec. to the Company; Henry Pratt, hall keeper
Custom House for Port of Wisbech, Albion terrace
Joseph Harvey Webb, superintendent of customs & mercantile marine & receiver of wreck; Robert Denver Morrison, second & acting examining officer; Charles Robinson, out-door officer; Fredk. H. Child, principal coast officer (Sutton Bridge)
Fever Hospital, Mount Pleasant, E. C. Bury M.D., physician; J. Hayes, secretary
Fire Brigade, Engine house, Lower bridge street.
James Archer, superintendent
Hawkin's & Kinh Jonh's Almshouses, Cemetery road
Inland Revenue Office, 36 Market place
John Liddy, officer of 1st ride; Edwin Wates, officer of 2nd ride
Mayr;s (Mrs.) Almshouses, Canal side
Museum & Literary Institution, Museum square
open from 11 to 4 win winter, & 11 to 5 sin summer; & on thursday evening, from 7 to 9; Algernon Peckover F.L.S. president; Alexander Peckover F.L.S., F.R.G.S., treasuer; George Oliver, curator & librarian
North Cambridgeshire Cottage Hospital, The Park,
E. C. Bury M.D. & Wm. Roy M.D. hon. medical offcers; William Shaples, house surgeon & secretary; Miss Elizabeth Deacon, matron
Public Hall, Upper Hill street,
James Edward Pratt, secretary, Mrs. S. Trolley, hall keeper
Sessions House, South brink; sessions are held in January & July
Sewerage Pumping Station, Tinker's drove, Lapouldro Palmer, engineer
Stamp Office, Market place, John Goward, jun. distributor
Stermyn's Almshouses, Church terrace
Wisbech & Walsoken Main Sewerage Board, 18 Lower Hill street,
Francis Jackson, clerk; Henry Pooler, surveyor; Stephen Sharpe & Tom Emmett Robbins, collectors
The Union comprises the following parishes, viz.:—
Transcription Copyright © E.C."Paddy" Apling, March, 2006 (union only), with county court information added, July, 2007.
In
Cambridgeshire: Elm, Leverington, Newton, , Parson Drove, Tidd Saint Giles, Upwell, Wisbech St. Mary & Wisbech St. Peter. In Norfolk: Clenchwarton, Emneth, Outwell, Terrington St.
Clement, Terrington St.
John, Tilney All
Saints, Tilney-cum-Islington,
Tilney St.
Lawrence, Upwell, Walpole St.
Andrew, Walpole St.
Peter, Walsoken & West Walton. The
population of the Union in 1881 was 32,438, rateable value £218,473
Board
day, thursday at 10 a.m. at the Workhouse, Lynn rd
Clerk to the
Guardians, George Carrick, 9 Crescent
Relieving & Vaccination
Officers, Wisbech St. Peer's Distract, Thomas Earby, 49 Marshland road,
New Walsoken & Churchyard, Wisbech; Marshland District,
Robert Falkner, 20 Church terrace
Medical Officers & Public
Vaccinators, Nos. 1, 2A, 8 & 10A, Districts, W. Groom, Wisbech;
No. 2B & 3 Districts, E. Welchman
L.R.C.P.Lond. Parson Drove; Nos. 4 & 5
Districts, J. T. Seccombe M.D. Terrington St. Clement;
No. 6 District, M. J. Egarr L.F.P.S.Glas.
Terrington St. Clement; No. 7 District, W. H. Copley, Wisbech;
No. 9 District, G. Mason, Wisbech; No. 10
District, J. W. Measures, Long Sutton; Nos. 11 & 12
Districts Walter Berry, Upwell
Superintendent Registrar,
William Goddard Jackson; Deputy, John R. Bambridge, South brink
Registrars of Births & Deaths.----No. 1 Leverington
Sub-District, John Foster, Wisbech St. Mary;
No. 2 Wisbech Sub-District, Wm. Adams 1 Ely place,
Wisbech; No. 3 Walpole St. Peter Sub-District, Wm. Winterton,
Walpole St. Peter; No. 4 Terrington St. Clement Sub-District,
T. J. Egarr, Terrington St. John; No. 5 Walsoken Sub-District,
Amos Hill, Emneth; No. 6 Upwell Sub-District, E. J. H.
Waudby, Upwell
Registrar of Marriages, William Adams, 1 Ely place;
Deputy, Stephen Sharpe, 4 Victoria road
Workhouse is extensive
& stands in spacious grounds on the Lynn road & is capable of
containing 445 inmates & averages 260 inmates:
Mr. Herring, master; Mrs. Herring, matron; Rev. John Scott M.A. chaplain; J. C. Bury, medical officer; George Lewis, schoolmaster; Mrs. Jemima Godfrey, schoolmistress
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