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A Short Explanation of the Poor Law

Alcester Union and Guardians Part 2: The Workhouse

Ancestry.com - Search Schools, Directories & Church Histories

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service: Bedfordshire: Poor Law Union Records

United Kingdom.

Cambridgeshire Poor Law Papers Index

England. Searchable online database from Cambridgeshire Family History Society.

Care Of The Poor

Wales. From the Powys Digital History Project.

Database of Poor Law records for West Sussex

Transcriptions of over 8,000 records from documents of Settlement and Removal 1662-1835. Organized by surnames, order types, year & parish. From the Sussex Record Society

FDCA Poor Indexes - Index of Poor Registers

Dundee, Scotland. From the Friends of Dundee City Archives. Online index of Liff & Benvie Register of Poor (1854-1865) and Dundee East Poorhouse Register (1856-1878).

Floor Plan of Blackburn Union Workhouse

England.

Headington Union Workhouse Formerly on London Road

Oxfordshire, England.

History of the Workhouse

Excellent site full of information on the UK workhouse system. Includes information on the Poor Laws, maps of the Poor Law Unions, scans of original records on diet, instruction, and rules, and more.

How It Was: Conditions in the Workhouse

Article by Dr. Marjie Bloy.

Index to Paupers in Workhouses 1861 (10% sample)

This lists adult paupers in workhouses in England and Wales.

Leitrim Poor Law Union Map

Ireland.

National Archives of Scotland Fact Sheets - The Poor

Poor Children of Elham

Late 19th to early 20th century names of interest for people who think they had descendants in Elham, Kent, England.
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Poor Law

United Kingdom.

Poor Law Index

Angmering, Sussex.

Poor Law Union Map of Ireland

Marking workhouses both before and after 1849.

Poor Law Union Records

England. From the Northamptonshire Record Office.