Poor relief – poor registers (1845-1865)

Each civil parish had a poor roll, revised annually and available for public inspection. Paupers could only be admitted to the roll by order of the parochial board. The registers of poor, normally bound volumes of printed forms, contained the basic information about applicants admitted to the poor roll in this way. For each individual the register gives the name, address, marital status, age, birthplace, occupation, whether disabled and if so how, financial circumstances, and a record of the decision by the parochial board as to how the case was to be dealt with.