Poor Law Records

Covering Quarter & Petty Sessions & Parish Records

Kesteven Quarter Sessions Poor Law Documents 1700-1847

Abstracts and transcriptions of Poor Law material from the Quarter Sessions for this Mid-Lincolnshire area, for the years 1700 to 1847. It includes Removal Orders, Settlement Certificates, Vagrancy Passes, Apprenticeship Indentures, Bastardy Documents, and provides information from many parishes for which there are no surviving Poor Law documents. In PDF format...

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Lincolnshire Bastardy Documents 1632-1901

Abstracts and some transcriptions of Bastardy Documents from 182 Lincolnshire Parishes. A list of the parishes included may be found here: https://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/index.php/publications . Also Petty Sessions material: Kesteven PS Information & Complaints and Examinations 1829-1835; Sleaford PS Bastardy Order Book 1824-1839, includes Bourne PS from 1833 (full transcription). Lindsey PS A...

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Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates 1688-1834

Most people wishing to move from one parish to another were obliged to take with them a "Settlement Certificate" that stated where their legal place of settlement was. Many of these certificates give the occupations of men, and the names & ages of children. Contains abstracts from certificates, by parish. In PDF format...

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Lincolnshire Settlement Examinations & Removal Orders (1688-1865)

From 184 parishes, over 10,000 documents. The Settlement Examinations are fully transcribed, and information from all Removal Orders has been abstracted, which includes details of baptisms, marriages and burials. The documents date from the late 17th century to 1865. All ancillary documents such as bills, letters, certificates of baptism, marriage or burial, Certificates of Chargeability, Notice...

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Lindsey & Sleaford Petty Sessions Settlement Examinations

Includes Lindsey Petty Sessions 1815-1848 (915 examinations) and Sleaford Petty Sessions 1829-1835 (325 examinations). All examinants were living within the area covered by these Petty Sessions Courts at the time they were examined, but many of them originally came from other parts of Lincolnshire, and from other counties. In PDF format...

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Lindsey Quarter Sessions Poor Law Papers 1702-1703 & 1730-1848 (Poor Law Index Part 13)

Full transcriptions of settlement examinations, abstracts of removal orders, vagrancy passes, bastardy documents, some settlement certificates, apprenticeship indentures, maintenance orders, and other miscellaneous Poor Law material found in the Lindsey Quarter Sessions files. In PDF format...

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