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The Poor Law Union Database lists all Church of England parishes and many additional places and gives the name of the Union that place belonged to and an indication of which Record Office holds the records for that Union.

Select a letter of the alphabet for the place your are interested in.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

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The database contains over 12,000 entries so there are bound to be errors or omissions. I have done my best to identify the correct Union for all places, but some of them had to be best guesses based on the relative location of the place in question.

The Record Offices listed may not hold all the records, for the Union concerned. The Record Office will be able to advise you as to what records there are and where they are held.

The “Poor Law Union Records” books by Jeremy Gibson published by the Federation of Family History Societies give lists of the type of records which have survived and the period they cover. These books should be available in larger libraries.

All Unions have some records at the National Archives (formerly The Public record Office), Kew. Where the PRO is the stated Record Office this indicates that there are no locally held records surviving.

I have used many sources in compiling this database but principally I have used· The Parish Locator Database available on the web at http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gdlawson/parfind.htm

• The compilers of Parish Locator kindly gave me permission to use their database as the basis for this work.
• Poor Law Union Records Volumes 1-4 by Jeremy Gibson & others, Published by the Federation of Family History Societies.
• The Atlas & Index of Parish Registers, edited by CR Humphrey-Smith, published by Phillimore.
• Crockfords Clerical Directory—1955-56, published annually by the Oxford University Press
• Index to Parishes, Townships, Hamlets & Places In County Court Districts, compiled by the Lord Chancellors Dept, published by HMSO, 1938
• AA Road Atlas of the British Isles 2000, published by the AA
• Bartholomews Gazeteer of Places in Britain, 1986, published by John Bartholomew & Co.

If you find any errors or omissions or have any comments,

please e-mail me.

The database is Copyright: Fourbears Research 2001 and may not be reproduced without permission.