Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
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__________________________________________________________________________<strong>Lancashire</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>Office</strong>: What’s in it for <strong>Blackburn</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Darwen</strong>?Poor Law <strong>Record</strong>sThe 'Old Poor Law', dating from the Elizabethan period established the principle oflocal responsibility for poor relief and a distinction between the deserving andundeserving poor - the latter category including vagrants, beggars and those whorefused to work.The legislation was administered by overseers of the poor appointed by the justicesof the peace. <strong>Record</strong>s relating to poor law administration, including accounts, ratebooks, payments, affiliation papers and apprenticeship indentures, can often befound among parish church archives and parish council records, as well as in theseries of <strong>Lancashire</strong> Quarter Sessions petitions.OurReference Place DescriptionUDTU 9 Belmont • Poor rates 1914PR1560 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Settlement certificates 1699-1802PR 1559 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Removal orders 1706-1806; vagrant passes1729 -1802PR 1561 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Poor Law papers 1694-1751; subscriptions forworkhouse 1764PR 1558 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Apprenticeship indentures 1708-1805; bastardybonds 1690-1798; filiation and maintenanceorders 1751-1803PR 3073/7/1 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Overseers of the poor accounts 1749-1754PR1559/1 <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Orders for relief of militiamen's families 1793-1801UDTU Edgworth • Overseers of the poor receipt and paymentbooks 1866-1912; poor rates 1914PR 843 Little Harwood • Poor rate book 1834CTL7/14 Over <strong>Darwen</strong> • Overseers accounts 1811PR2653 Pleasington • Apprenticeship indentures 1731-1829PR2654 Pleasington • Bastardy papers 1769-1830PR2655 Pleasington • Poor law papers 1738-1829PR 2761 Tockholes • Settlement certificates 1677-1830; settlementdepositions 1800-1826; removal orders 1693-1852; appointments of overseers and guardiansof the poor 1802-1854; militia compensationpapers 1803-1815; warrants for distress of rates1811-1820; rate books 1838-1849;apprenticeship indentures 1730-1815; bastardybonds 1704-1777UDTU 19 Turton • Goose Cote Hill Workhouse and poor accounts1794- 1853UDTU 18 Turton • Overseers receipt and payment books 1859-1902; poor rate account 1824-1829; poor rates191440
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