Poor Law Records Content

The survival of Poor Law records for the West Middlesex area is very patchy. For most of our parishes none survive at all up to 1834. The great majority of the content listed below has been digitised from typed documents made by society members long ago, in the 1980s. This work is complete. There remain a similar number of Poor Law records which require visits to the London Metropolitan Archives, or other local archive, for these records also to be digitised.



Poor Law Summary of record types by Parish
ParishSettlement ExaminationsBastardy EventsRemoval EventsAll EventsEarliestLatest
Chelsea, St. Luke 1260842107345117331850
Ealing, St. Mary 186595229718271846
Feltham, St. Dunstan 57132517151827
Fulham, All Saints 6530665917061827
Hammersmith, St. Paul 11010912017961833
New Brentford, St. Laurence 51909617921831
Shepperton, St. Nicholas 374499017141803
Staines, St. Mary 324126959416991844
Stanwell, St. Mary 11121417521836
Uxbridge, St. Margaret 11024425517161843
TOTAL ALL PARISHES 24931572941559116991850



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