PRINTED AT THE PHOENIX PRESS, PARADE,
FOR M. A. MILLS,
1818.
[Price 2d. Manks, being one half the actual cost.]
March 12, 1818.
A GENERAL Meeting having been summoned for taking into consideration the Proceedings of the Committee appointed in September. 1817, Their Report was received, approved, and printed.
A New Committee was appointed, to consist of the Chaplains and Wardens of St. George's and St. Matthew's, for the time being, and the following Gentlemen :
COLONEL WILKS,
ROBERT STEWART,
JOHN McUTCHIN,
WILLIAM LEECE DRINKWATER,
PAUL BRIDSON,
THOMAS HARRISON, Junr,
LEWIS GENESTE,
FRANCIS MATTHEWS,
JOHN HEAD,
ROBERT CANNELL,
MATTHEW HARRISON,COLONEL WILKS, President,
JOHN HEAD,Treasurer,
The Rev. JOHN CHRISTIAN,Secretary
The Committee procecded to carry into effect the Plan proposed by the printed Report of the former Committee, and in order to ascertain the funds capable of being raised by district, applications and collections, obtained subscriptions to the amount of £185 for the half year.
The Committee further prosecuted their duty by receiving applications for relief; investigating each case from the best sources of inquiry they have been able to resort to, and appropriating to each applicant such relief as appears to them equitable and just, according to the extent of the funds placed in their hands.
The Committee are desirous in the commencement of their duties to explain to the subscribers the principal means, by which they propose to accomplish the objects committed to their trust. Subscriptions have been solicited and obtained on the principle distinctly avowed in the preparatory Report of a former Committee, 'that alms given without investigation, are bounties on idleness and fraud, and every shilling so received is a robbery from real distress'. It will accordingly be the leading object of the Committee, to diminish by every means in their power, the number of persons requiring alms in any form; by endeavouring to find employment for the industrious and by stigmatizing the idle and the profligate; and it is their ultimate hope to open to their successors the reasonable expectations of gradually restoring to the town of Douglas, the comfort which it once enjoyed, and other portions of, the Island still possess, of finding its ordinary funds, and the silent workings of spontaneous charity, sufficient to repress importunate street begging; and if the Committee should fail in making those first steps, which by due perserverance, and in due season, may accomplish this object, they must consider their labour and their time totally misapplied. But the Committee has neither deceived itself, nor desired to delude the public, by suppressing the unquestionable fact, that its success must mainly depend on the active support of the subscribers themselves. After a careful examination of various means of giving empployment to the Poor, the Committee is persuaded, that the attempt, under present circumstances, to establish a public workhouse, would only generate abuses, and terminate in failure; but it is their object and their hope to accomplish a better end by more salutary means; if the cordial aid of individual subscribers can be practically obtained. In the list of persons who receive assistance from this charity, many who may be unable to come into public competition for work, are yet capable, if liberally employed, of supporting themselves, or contributing in various degrees to their own support. Every Manks woman for example can spin, however incapable of more profitable labour; and one general channel is thereby opened, not only of giving employment to poor females, but of contributing to raise by internal means, an article which forms at present a large branch of importation; and even of restoring the ancient reputation of Manks linen as an article of export. It is not intended to suggest that the employment of poor females can of itself accomplish the commercial object; or even that it will in every case he very profitable to the employer: but it is certain that in every case it will be useful and charitable; and it 1s not unreasonable to hope, that it may give an impulse to the restoration of that national manufacture. To the names of the persons receiving aid from this charity, is annexed a notice of their usual occupation, or that for which they appear at present to be qualified ; and. it is earnestly recommended to every subscriber, to give employment to at least one male or female individual on the list, paying them for the actual value of their labour, and making it known to the Committee, the amount of their earnings; and it is most particularly requested, that subscribers do communicate the names of such persons as decline employment when offered, or attempt fraud or dishonesty regarding the materials delivered to them or otherwise. These simple and universally intelligible means, will certainly enable the Committee to realize their hopes; and they desire explicitly to declare their conviction, that without this co-operation their efforts will fail The Committee have under consideration the expediency of importing flax, and other raw materials, to be delivered at prime cost to the subscribers, for the purposes described ; but they hesitate at any measure which may be deemed an interference with the fair trader, and they invite the early communications of such dealers, as are interested in the probable consequences of such a plan. In the meanwhile they repeat their earnest recommendation to subscribers, to lose no time in affording to the poor such work, as the means of the employer, and the ability of the employed shall render most eligible.
The Committee cannot avoid stating in their Report, that in tracing the causes of pauperism in the town, they have deeply to lament, and observe upon two points of serious moment, requiring earnest attention and early remedy. Cases, of marriage, and illegitimacy among paupers. In the investigation of the applications for relief, it appeared, that marriages have taken place where the parties have not been in a state of mind to contract; and there is now one case upon the list of paupers, of a family of four children by a man incapacitated from supporting his offspring by mental weakness, and his wife now in a forward state of pregnancy. The Committee cannot presume to point out the remedy for so serious an evil, and which appears to arise from want of due precaution - but they feel it their duty to state the fact, with a view to consideration, and an adequate remedy.
In the cases of illegitimate children, there does not appear to be any security taken from the parties for the support of the children, whereby the public are loaded with the expence of orphans, by the desertion of their parents, This is also a subject upon which the Committee feel them- selves unauthorized to observe as to remedy, but consider a point for serious consideration as affecting the public.
Although the Committee have given every attention in their power to an examination of the cases before them, they feel there may be many which from absence of accurate information, have been acted upon under error; some, where unworthy objects may possibly have imposed ; others, where adequate relief may not have been afforded, or entirely withheld. They trust, therefore, where such cases occur, the circumstance will be ascribed alone to want of due information. It is at the same time to be observed, that the conduct of the Committee has, and must be regulated by a COMPARISON OF CASES, as the funds are not sufficiently extensive to meet the demands upon them.
In order to assist the Committee in their labours, they earnestly repeat a request to the subscribers, individually to make an attentive examination of the lists, and to communicate such information as they may be able to afford, and assist the Committee in, correcting such errors as may have occurred.
Subscribers are also requested to obtain as much previous information of the history and characters of the paupers they recommend in future as possible, and to transmit a note thereof to the Committee, and to report the names of all children begging at their doors, whose patents are upon the list.
The Officers for receiving applications and investigating cases, attend every Monday at the Poor House, from Eleven until One o'clock ; and a General Meeting of the Committee is held every Thursday at Twelve, to receive all communications from subscribers, and for the general purposes of the Institution.
The Committee, anxious to limit the expences of the Institution as much as possible, and in order to avoid the heavy charge of printing a full statement of every case, have been under the necessity of abridging their original intention in that respect in the schedule to this Report, and have therefore confined themselves to a mere statement of the names, age, and residence, referring the subscribers to the Books of the Institution at the Poor House for further information: where, by the number attached to each name, the particulars may be found. Where the subjects are capable of work, the employment for which they are suited is annexed to their names, and in every case of a pensioner being supplied with work, it is earnestly requested that notice thereof may be sent to the Committee.
1 Catharine Quay, aged 50, idiot,
2 Betty Quay, aged 25, ditto,
3 Ann Kelly, aged 23, ditto, and cripple,
4 Susan Christian, aged 84, infirmity,
5 John Kelly, aged 80, ditto,
6 Jane Kelly, his wife,
7 Ann Shimmin, aged 60, sick,
8 Athur Cowle, aged 75, infirmity,
9 William Nicoll, his family to remove him in May;
10 Thomas Collister, aged 74, insanity,
11 Charles Moore, aged 9, illegitimate, his mother incapable of supporting him,
12 James Tear, an orphan,
13 Harriet Wake, ditto,
14 Solomon Gibson, ditto,
15 Lob. Quayle, infirmity.
1 William Cretney, Big Garden, has his food at the Poor House,
2 Betty Grimes, sent to Liverpool Infirmary,
3 Elizabeth Killey, aged 35, Sand Street, rejected,
4 Margt. Taggart ,aged 40, Cattle Market Street, rejected,
5 John Quayle, aged 40, Sand Street, during illness, 2s. 6d. per week,
6 Margaret Christian, aged 36, Cattle Market, spins, 1s.6d. per week,
7 John Kneal, aged 78, Big Garden, makes nets, wife spins, 1s. 6d per week,
8 Jane Kegg, aged 35, Coulthard's Yard, can spin, capable of any other work,
Is. per week,
9 Mary Quailley, aged 70, Sena, 1s. per week,
10 Mary Radcliffe, aged 72, Cowley's, near Mr, Harris's, charwoman, 1s. per
week,
11 Ann Goldie, aged 68, Sand Street, 2s. per month,
12 Thomas Cretney, aged 80, Big Garden, 1s. per week,
13 Catharine Brown, aged 77, Great Nelson Street, spins, 1s. per week,
14 Elizabeth Quirk, aged 88, Drumgold Street, spins, 1s. 6d. per week,
15 Betty Mylrea, alias Craine, aged 72, Coulthard's Yard, spins, 1s. per week,
.
16 Philip Quayle, Preaching House Lane, 2s. per week, during sickness,
17 Widow Abby Quayle, aged 70, next door to Mr, Edward Forbes, 2s. per month,
18 John Cannell, aged 37, Sand Street, rejected,
19 Mary Fitzsimmons, aged 56, Cattle Market, can spin,rejected,
20 Esther Christian, aged 58, Church Street, 2s. per month, if discovered to
have property to be discontinued,
21 Willian Quinney, aged 70, Coulthard's buildings, 1s,per week,
22 Catharine Tear, aged 58, Great Nelson Street, blind, 1s. 6d. per week,
23 Jane Gelling, aged 83, Preahing House Lane,knits and spins, 1s. per week,
24 Ann Eager, aged 47, Atholl Street, spins and sews,2s, per month,
25 Mary Cross, aged 68, Sand Side, 1s. per week,
26 Widow Marsh, aged 80, Old Poor House, 1s. per week
27 Bella Cannell, aged 67, Coulthard's Buildings, infirm, 1s. per week, since
dead,
28 Ann James, aged 60, Old Poor House, knits, 1s. per week,
29 Widow Bridson, aged 64, Church Street, knits, 1s. per week,
30 Margaret Clark, aged 70, Drumgold Street, spins, 3s. per month,
31 Lob. Quayle, taken into the House,
32 Jane Moore, aged 62, Fancy Street, knits, 1s. per week,
33 Margaret Clark, aged 60, knits and spins, 1s. per week,
34. Daniel Cowen, aged 60, Coulthard's Yard, 1s. per week,
35 Catharine Quayle, alias Collister, aged 40, Great Nelson Street, spins and
washes well, 2s. per month,
36 Mary Shimmin, aged 60, at J. Cottier's, mason, spins, 1s. 6d. per month,
37 Widow Darcy, aged 80, Preaching House Lane, 1s. 6d. per week,
38 Jane Hogan, aged 42, Drumgold St. 1s. 6d. per month,
39 Betty Taggart, aged 53, Cattle Market, spins, rejected,
40 Elizabeth Quayle, aged 81, 1s. per week,
41 Elizabeth M'Kissack, aged 41, near Mr. Harris's, 1s. 6d. per week,
42 Margaret Nicholson, aged 60, Mrs. Harvey's, Sand Side, rejected, 58
43 Wm. Curphey, aged 40, near Mr. Kennaugh's, cooper, 1s. per week,
44 Ellen Craine, aged 84, at Cross's, Sand St. 1s. per week,
45 Widow Kennaugh, aged 75, Cattle Market, 1s. per week,
46 Betty Karran, aged 41, near Dugdale's, Sand Street, rejected,
47 Ann Harvey, aged 39, Sand Street, spins, 2s per month, discontinued, she
having permitted her children to beg,
48 Ann Christian aged 72, Drumgold Street, 1s. per week
49 Philip Crellin, aged 50, case referred to Fitzsimmons, the gaoler,
50 Margaret Nowell, aged 70, Old Poor House, can spin, case to be considered,
51 Catharine Callow, aged 72, Drumgold Street, knits, 1s per week,
52. Thos. Kelly, aged 80, at Paul Cannel's, Church Street, 1s 6d. per week,
53 Thomas Quirk, aged 30, Looneys, Sand Street, 1s. 6d. during illness,
54 Catharine Clague, aged 84, Barrack Street,
55 Margaret Clague, aged 81, ditto, Sisters, 1s. 6d. per week for both,
56 Jane Nelson, aged 73, Bigwell Street, rejected,
57 Catharine Quayle, aged 50, Preaching House Lane, spins, 1s. 6d. per month,
58 Margaret Alexander, aged 60, washer-woman, 1s. 6d. per month,
59 Judy Kewley, aged 57, Pump Street, 1s. 6d. per week,
60 Christian Stole, alias Gale, 2s. per month,
61 Ann Connell, aged 55, Preaching House Lane, case to be considered,
62 Ann Gelling, aged 73, Bigwell Street, 2s. 6d. per month,
63 Sarah Quilliam, Sand Street, rejected,
64 Margt. Clague, aged 40, Cattle Market, spins, works in the herrings, 1s.
per week, reduced to 1s. 6d. per month,
65. Betty Roper, rejected,
66 Elizabeth Morrison, aged 94,Sand Street, 1s. 6d. per week,
67 Thomas Tear, aged 45,
68 John Camash, aged 91, referred to his daughter for support,
69 Margaret Gale, aged 72, Atholl Street, to be considered,
70 Ann Starkinson, aged 59, near Mr. Kennaugh's, cooper, wash and spin, 2s.
per month,
71 William Tear, aged 47, Big Garden, 1s. 6d. per week,
72 Catharine Kewley, aged 63, Drumgold Street, spins, 1s. 6d. per month,
73 Ann Casement, aged 55, Sand Street, 1s. per week,
74 Eleanor Taggart, aged 40, Cattle Market, spins, 3s. per month,
75 Ann Karruin, aged 65, Drumgold Street, spins 2s. per month,
76 Margaret Corlett aged 59, Pump Street, 2s. per month,
77 Catharine Cretney, aged 60, Great Nelson Street, 1s. per week,
78 Margaret Clague, aged 66, Sand Street, to be considered,
79 Elizabeth Karran, aged 70, Bigwell Street, spins, 2s, per month,
80 Betty Harraty, aged 60, at Clucas's, shoemaker, 1s, 6d, per month,
81 Christian Laing, aged 66, Old Poor House, to continue there rent free,
82 Rose Curphey, aged 88, Church Street, referred to her daughter, Mrs. Richard
Scott,
83 Margaret Thompson, aged 36, Cattle Market, rejected,
84 Robert Campbell, aged 20, Sand Street, 1s. per week, during his wife's illness,
discontinued,
85 Judy Kelly, aged 76, at Quayle's, Bigwell Street, 1s. 6d. per month,
86 Margaret Sherlock, aged 54, Sand Street, spins, 2s, per month,
87 Catharine Lawson, aged 60, at Bella Cannel's, Sand Street, spins and knits,
1s. 6d. per month,
88 Jane Quirk, aged 66, Sand Street, spins, 2s. 6d. per month,
89 Margaret Cringal, aged 50, Preaching House Lane, spins, 1s. per week,
90 Augusta Gelling, aged 10, Sand Street, 1s, per week, an orphan,
91 Margaret Sharp, aged 47, Preaching House Lane, spins, harvest work, 1s. 6d.
per month, discontinued next month,
92 Margaret Gordon, aged 67, Great Nelson Street, spins, 2s. 6d. per month,
93 Jane Quiggan, aged 67, underneath Billiard Room, 1s. 6d. per week,
94 Alice Kelly, aged 71, Bigwell Street, 1s. per week,
95 Robert Quirk, aged 39, rejected, ;
96 Jane Mylrea, aged 68, Sand Street, spins and knits, 2s. per month,
97 Robert Cottier, aged 68, Sand Street, 1s. 6d. per month,
98 John Cain, aged 56, Sand Street, 1s. 6d, per month,
99 Catharine Conolly, Sand Street, spins, 1s. 0d. per month
100 Christian Kelly, aged 84, near Mr, William Banks's, spins, 1s. per week,
101 Jane Livingston, aged 64, Sand Street, 28. per month,
102 Margaret Goldie, aged 69, Sand Street, spins, 2s. per month,
103 Mary Connor, rejected,
104 Elizabeth Kewley, aged 91, Sena,
105 Robert McBride, aged 54, periodical insanity, Cattle Market, 2s. per month,
106 Elizabeth Kinley, aged 48, Sand Street, 1s. per week,
107 Jane Quine, aged 43, near Killey's tan yard, spins, 1s. per week, reduced
to 2s. per month,
108 Betty Quinney aged 64, Bigwell Street, washes, spins, and knits, 1s. 6d.
per month,
109 Elizabeth Corkhill, aged 69, near Mr. Buck's garden, can sew, 1s. per week,
110 Elizabeth Corlett, aged 74, Bigwell Street, 1s. 6d, per month,
111 Mary Looney, aged 70, Sand Street, 18. per week,
112 Eleanor Kewley, aged 48, near Killey's tan yard, 1s. 6d. per month, discontinued,
113 Elizabeth Sayle, aged 68, Great Nelson Street, spins, 1s. 6d. per month,
114 Eleanor Creer, aged 81, near Mr. Kennaugh's, cooper, spins, 1s. per week,
115 Catharine Bridson, aged 79, Bigwell Street, 1s. per week
116 Catharine Craine, aged 30, Pump Strect, 2s. per month,
117 Betty Carr, aged 68, Drumgold Street, 2s. per month,
118 Catharine Cannell, aged 66, at Farragher's, Bigwell Street, 2s. per month,
119 Catharine Lively, aged 70, Cattle Market Street, spins, case to be considered,
120 Jane Nelson, aged 65, Sand Street, 2s. 6d. per month,
121 Ellen Kelly, aged 60, Pump Street, 2s. 6d. per month,
122 William Kelly, aged 72, Sand Street, 1s. 6d. per month,
123 Ann Kneen aged 40, back of Sand Street, 2s. 6d. per month,
124 Catharine Cowne, aged 25, Bigwell Street, 1s 6d, per week,
125 Mary Riggs, aged 66, Moore Place, 1s. 6d. per week,
126 Dolly Clucas, aged 76, Muckle's Gate,
127 Esther Stole, aged 55, Killey's tan yard,
128 Catharine Caley, aged 23, ditto, Mother and Daughter, 1s. 6d. per week,
129 Paul Quine, aged 85, Cattle Market, 1s. per week,
130 James Collister, aged 53, near the Barracks, 1s. 6d.
131 Catharine Colvin, aged 55, New Factory Lane, rejected,
132 Betty Lary, aged 40, Water Lane, spins, daughter can spin, 2s. per month,
133 Elizabeth Corkhill, aged 80, Sand Street, case to be considered,
134 John Lewin, aged 20, during fever 2s. per week,
135 William Lewin, aged 91, 1s. 6d. per week,
136 Ann Brown, aged 70, King Street, 1s. 6d. per week,
137 James Garret, Sand Street, on account of a cripple child, 1s, per week,
138 Margaret Rowland, aged 74, Coulthard's Yard, 1s. per week,
139 Mary Sheridan, to be sent off the country, 1s. per week in the mean time,
140 Wm. Collister, aged 45, Bigwell Street, 2s. per week during illness,
141 Charles Radcliif, aged 72, King Street, 1s. 6d. per week,
142 John Allen, aged 56, Shaw's Brow, 1s. per week for a month, ,
143 Philip Cowley, aged 40, fever, 2s. 6d. per week during illness,
144 Catharine Quilliam, aged 75, Society Lane, 1s. per week,
145 Dolly Killey aged 60, Sand Street, capable of work, rejected,
146 Elizabeth Kneen, aged 57, Society Lane, on account of Mother, aged 84, 1s.
per week,
147 Eleanor Rippingham, aged 40, Hanover Street, 2s. per week for a month,
148 Jane Creer, Sand Street, 1s. 6d. per week,
149 Alice Cavanagh, aged 86, New Factory Lane, spins, rejected,
150 Robert Campbell, sent off the country,
151 Elizabeth Creer, aged 59, near Mr. Kennaugh's, cooper, referred to
her friends,
152 Daniel Quirk, aged 63, Sand Street, rejected,
153 Phoebe Rook, aged 55, King Street, rejected,
154 Margaret Karran, aged 30, near Dixons, lives by spinning, to be sent to
Liverpool Infirmary,
155 Ann Quayle, alias Gamble rejected,
156 Judy Wilson, aged 36, Croughan's Sand Street, spins,country work, rejected,
157 Mary McMurray aged 53, near Mr Heywood's Stables, 1s per week,
158 Eleanir Cowen, aged 76, Bigwell Street, 2s. per month,
159 Jane Quirk, aged 31, Sand Street, widow, 2s. per month, capable of a servant's
place if free of her children, discontinued,
160 Jane Quayle, aged 60, Cattle Market, can sew, 1s. 6d. per month,
161 Michael Kneen, aged 75, rejected,
162 William Corlett, aged 45, near Cowley's, Clerk of St, George's, 2s. 6d.
per week during illness,
163 Catharine Gelling, alias Harvey, aged 56, Drumgold Street, rejected, ,
164 Isabella Cain, aged 40, Cattle Market, 1s. 6d. per month,
165 Widow Mariner, aged 63, Big Garden, to be considered,
166 Mary Collister, aged 50, spins, can do country work, 1s. 6d. per month,
167 John Lewin, aged 65, mason, Atholl Street, 2s. 6d. week during illness,
168 Catharine Kewley, near Mrs. W. Stowel's, a sister and son both blind, 1s.
6d. per week,
169 Jane Clucas, aged 60, Cattle Market, spins, char woman, 1s. 6d. per month,
170 Margaret Cannell, aged 46, Sand Street, rejected,
171 Ann Bell, aged 10, New Factory Lane, rejected,
172 Ann Ball, rejected,
173 Ellen Curphey, aged 68, Sand Street, spins, rejected,
174 James Fell, aged 38, rejected,
175 Catharine McGuinness, aged 41, Bigwell Street, to be assisted in remoyal
to Ireland,
176 Jane McEwen, aged 82, Big Garden, needle work and tambour to be continued
for one month, at 1s. 6d. per week,
177 Elizabeth Corkhill, aged 36, Sand Street, referred to her own parish,
178 Eleanor Murray, aged 50, at George Adams's, needle work, 1s. per week,
179 Rose M'Cauley, Big Garden, to, be sent to Ireland,
180 Wife of Thomas Shimmin, aged 45, Bigwell Street, 5s. donation to assist
in following her husband to Liverpool,
181 Wiilliam Lewin aged 59, Bigwell Street, 1s. per week
182 Eliz. Murray, aged 94, Sand Street, 1s. 6d. per week
183 Charles Moore, aged 35, Bigwell Street, 1s. per week,
184 Thomas Cartwright, aged 10, referred to his reputed father
185 Catharine Quailly, aged 87, Sena, rejected,
186 Matthew Quirk, aged 60, Sena, rejected,
187 John Quayle, aged 61, near Mo Hasting's brewery, 1s. 6d per week for
a month,
188 William Mylrea, further consideration,
189 Charles Stubbs, aged 5, rejected,
190 Margaret Tear, aged 44, sent to Whitehaven to her husband,
191 Esther Cretney, aged 35, Back Street, sews, 2s, per month,
192 Thos. Quirk, aged 30, 1s. 6d. per week, during illness,
193 Catharine Calvert, aged 30, at Thos. Kewley' 8, James Street, rejected,
194 Widow Beatty, 1s, Gd. per week,
195 Wife of William Creer aged 44, How Side, 1s, 6d.per week for a month,
196 Margaret Kelly, aged 44, Sand Street, 1s, 6d. per week for a month,
197 Thomas Cannell, aged 60, Back Street, 5s. donation,
198 Catharine Croghan, aged 80, at Mrs, Clemenson's, 2s,per month,
199 Margaret Christian, aged 65, Water Lane, 1s, 6d. per week,
200 Eleanor Cretney, aged 85, near Lancasterian School, 1s. 6d per week,
201 Ann Lawson, aged 66, Drumgold Street, 1s, 6d. per week until an order of
the ecclesiastical Court in her favour be enforced
202 John Crane, aged 69, at Cain's Sand Street rejected, able to work,
203 Charles Quayle, aged 56, Bigwell Street, ditto, ditto,
204 Margaret Clague, aged 67, Sand Street, 2s. per month.
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