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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**
Parish	Settlement Examinations	Bastardy Events	Removal Events	All Events	Earliest	Latest
Chelsea, St. Luke	1260	84	2107	3451	1733	1850
Ealing, St. Mary	186	59	52	297	1827	1846
Feltham, St. Dunstan	5	7	13	25	1715	1827
Fulham, All Saints	653	0	6	659	1706	1827
Hammersmith, St. Paul	11	0	109	120	1796	1833
New Brentford, St. Laurence	5	1	90	96	1792	1831
Shepperton, St. Nicholas	37	4	49	90	1714	1803
Staines, St. Mary	324	1	269	594	1699	1844
Stanwell, St. Mary	1	1	12	14	1752	1836
Uxbridge, St. Margaret	11	0	244	255	1716	1843
TOTAL ALL PARISHES	2493	157	2941	5591	1699	1850

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