Royal Bounty for Triplets.....

[DavidWW]

Anyone ever come across this ?

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-750

David

[emanday]

Don't quote me on this, but isn't there one on display along with some other old documents somewhere in Glasgow?

I'm sure I have seen something like that way back, but it was filled in with the details.

My Dad was always taking me to places like the Art Galleries, Peoples Palace, Provands Lordship and the like.

[DavidWW]

Aye weel, - I guess that that I should have followed my frequent, previous advice of always having a richt guid Google in such a situation.

Hence the following.........

QUOTE
The Queen’s Bounty for Multiple Births A463,
1962/4485
Recorded by: 1956– Prime Minister’s Department (CA 12)
This file contains applications from members of the public requesting to be considered for payment of the Queen’s Bounty.

It also contains a letter from the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace to the Governor-General detailing the scheme:

When the Bounty was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1849, the grant was designed ‘to enable the parents to meet the sudden expenses thrown upon them’ by the birth of triplets, and was conditional upon the parents being ‘in necessitous circumstances’.

In 1938, this condition was abolished, and the Bounty was then recognised as having become not so much a payment of money to help the parents meet the expense, but as an honour which they were privileged to receive from the Sovereign.

Now, more than ever, in view of changes which have occurred and of the fact that the true financial value of the Bounty has so greatly declined, the Queen has decided that the money payment shall cease, but that instead, a message of congratulations shall be sent from Her Majesty to the parents in recognition of the occasion. The rules which will apply as a qualification for the despatch of a congratulatory message from Her Majesty are as follows:

Infants must be born alive
An assurance has to be obtained of the ‘Reputable character’ of the parents.
Both parents must be British subjects or naturalised British subjects
Notification must be made within twelve months of the birth of the children.
The congratulatory message should take the following form, and I should be grateful if you would send, in future, such a message to parents who qualify under the above rules:

‘In accordance with the Queen’s commands, the Governor-General is desired to convey Her Majesty’s congratulations to Mr and Mrs (Name in full) on the occasion of the birth of their (triplets/quadruplets).’

When it is known that all the children are still alive, the following words may be added to the message: ‘and her good wishes for the future welfare of the children.’
ENDQUOTE

So there you have it

David

[Russell]

Haw David

That's mean isn't it?
The governor General signs the wee note no Her Majesterial Self. Hardly worth putting that bit o paper in the Family Tree is it?

Russell

[emanday]

Aye weel, - I guess that that I should have followed my frequent, previous advice of always having a richt guid Google in such a situation

Which only goes to show that fountains of knowledge, like yourself, only stay that way by continually learning.

Now I know something I didn't know before about when the bounty started and by whom.

New question Is there an archive of all the ones that were awarded?

[Russell]

Yes Mary
Its in triplicate

Russell

[emanday]

Aaw don't you get me goin as well. I'm already fallin of my chair in hysterics from the comments in Lesley's post about the forum layout changes.

p.s. the comments are totally unrelated to the changes - wee side natter goin on.

[mallog]

Yes Mary
Its in triplicate

Russell

Russell, Russell, Russell !!

What would we be like if there were three of you ???

[wini]

Yer a wee comic Russel, should be oan at the Metropole with Jimmy Logan

wini

[DavidWW]

....snipped........

New question Is there an archive of all the ones that were awarded?

I'd assume that the Buck House archives, - at Windsor?, - will have any extant records.

David