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Dover parish overseers

Also called the overseers · the Dover parish · the parish

The overseers of the poor for the Dover parish, who relieve over four hundred people in an ordinary quarter under the settlement law and bury paupers in a parish ground full for a generation.

Named with it

  • Parish Overseer Nathaniel Selling · keeps the overseers' book
  • Overseer Ralph Elham

Ties

  • works alongside the quay mission

At the table

Quietly relieve the uncounted and foreigners without admitting a settlement, and never write it down. Estimate three to five hundred uncounted people in the town. Have used removal orders on foreigners four times in eleven years.