Breaking News - Great Great Grandfather, John Inglis, Applies for Relief Under the Poor Law

Life before the welfare state.  On the 13th January 1910, Great, Great Grandfather John Inglis is granted 5 shillings a week poor relief at Bothwell Lanarkshire.   John's reason was that he was paralysed, unable to work so was destitute. He continued to receive poor relief until he died in 1812.

The poor relief records are a great genealogist's resource as the give details of the current state of all the applicants immediate family members.

However I find it hard to be too sympathetic with John because it took a court order before he acknowledged his parentage of my Great Grandmother Jane McLellan.

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