An evil that ought to be stopped!!

[Dowdy]

Hi All..

I have a document from an old Derbyshire newspaper regarding my GGG grandparents.

It states that they allowed their children to sell matches in the Corn Market in Derby after 9pm and as a result they were jailed  as it "was the first case taken under the new Act"

Does anyone know if there are any other snippets of info I could source or the name of this new Act?

The news report from the Derby Mercury is dated December 1894.

All info gratefully received.

Dowdy

[philipsearching]

This is most probably the Prevention Of Cruelty To Children Act 1894.

I haven't seen the text of this Act so am not sure how much it was an extension of the Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act 1889 which was a particularly important piece of social legislation.

[Guy Etchells]

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[Ray T]

It was a bit earlier than that - did it take nearly 5 years to bring a case? ... personally, I never take anything I read in a newspaper at face value.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1889/44/enacted

[philipsearching]

It was a bit earlier than that - did it take nearly 5 years to bring a case? ... personally, I never take anything I read in a newspaper at face value.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1889/44/enacted

Ray T, - the source you refer to does not include legislation which was repealed or subsumed into other acts.  Your link is to the 1889 Act I mentioned in my original post.