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- The Criminal Trial
- Punishment
- Houses of Correction
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Poor Law and Charity
- Overview
- Parish Relief
- Parish Nurses
- Workhouses
- Settlement
- Vagrancy
- Associational Charities
- Parliamentary Reform
- The Parish Poor
Guilds and Hospitals
Research Guides and Resources
Documents
- Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor Account Books (AC)
- Miscellaneous Parish Account Books (AO)
- Regular Parish Payments to Paupers (AP)
- Books of Clothing Provided by the Parish (BC)
- Enfield Books: Registers of Parish Children put out to Nurse (BE)
- Parish Clothing Books, with Names of Children at Nurse (BN)
- Criminal Registers of Prisoners in Middlesex and the City (CR)
- Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Examinations (EP)
- General Orders of the Court (GO)
- Apprenticeship Indentures and Disciplinary Cases (IA)
- Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths (IC)
- Workhouse Inquest (Visitation) Minute Books, St Dionis Backchurch (IW)
- Out-Letter Books: Copies of Correspondence Sent from St Thomas's Hospital (LB)
- Lists of Paupers Receiving Parish Relief (LP)
- Lists of Governor Takers-In of Patients to St Thomas's (LT)
- List of Inmates of St Clement Danes Workhouse in 1785 (LW)
- Minute Books of the General Prison Committee of Bridewell (MB)
- Minute Books of Hospital/Guild Courts and Committees (MC)
- Minute Books of the Court of Governors of Bridewell/St Thomas's (MG)
- Minute Books of Parish Vestry Sub-Committees (MO)
- Minutes of Parish Vestries (MV)
- Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts (OA)
- Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials (OBP)
- Overseer's Order Books: Goods Ordered by Workhouse Master (OO)
- Parish Apprenticeship Indentures and Registers (PA)
- Miscellaneous Parish and Bridewell Papers (PM)
- Churchwardens' Vouchers/Receipts from St Dionis Backchurch (PP)
- Letters to Parish Officials Seeking Poor Relief (PR)
- Sessions Papers: Justices' Working Documents (PS)
- Registers of Pauper and Bridewell Apprentices (RA)
- Registers of Poor Children under Fourteen years in Parish Care (RC)
- Register of Pauper Settlement and Bastardy Examinations (RD)
- St Thomas's Admission and Discharge Registers (RH)
- Register of Poor Infants under Four Years in Parish Care (RI)
- Registers of Fortnightly/Monthly Parish Pensioners in 1733 (RP)
- List of Securities for the Maintenance of Bastard Children (RR)
- Register of Paupers Removed from the Parish (RV)
- Register of Paupers Admitted to the Workhouse (RW)
- Bastardy Bonds: Securities for the Maintenance of Bastard Children (WB)
Additional Datasets
- Boys Recruited into the Marine Society, 1770-75, 1780-83, 1792-93, 1800-04 (MAR)
- British East India Company: Salaries Paid to 'Clerks', 1760-1820 (EIC)
- Fire Insurance Policy Registers, 1777- 1786 (FIR)
- Four Shillings in the Pound Aid 1693/4 for the City of London, City of Westminster and Metropolitan Middlesex (FSP)
- Income Tax Payments, 1799-1802 (ITP)
- Marriage Duty Assessments for St Botolph Aldgate, 1695 (MDA)
- Old Bailey Associated Records (ASS)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills (PCC)
- St Botolph Aldgate Parish Registers, 1681-1709 (PAR)
- St Botolph Aldgate Poll Tax Assessments, 1690-98 (POL)
- St Martin in the Fields Settlement Examinations, 1725-93 (SET)
- St Martin in the Fields Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1725-1819 (SWR)
- The London and Westminster Directory, 1774 (DIR)
- The St Luke Chelsea, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1743-1769 and 1782-1799 (WHR)
- The Westminster Historical Database (WHD)
Project
Lives
- Robert Abel, b. 1767
- Parmenas Adcock, b. 1774
- Percy Allen, fl. 1720-1723
- Quilt Arnold, 1687-c.1726
- Roderick Awdry, c. 1698-1714
- Samuel Badham, 1692-1740
- Michael Baker, b. 1682
- George Barrington 1755-1804
- Mary Bell, b. 1774
- John Bevan, fl. 1763-1784
- William Blewit d. 1726
- Sarah Bowyer, fl.1766-1783
- Elizabeth Bridgen, fl. 1750-1773
- Edward Burnworth alias Frazier, d. 1726
- James Carse, b. 1758
- James Cluff, c. 1698-1729
- George Cock, b. 1720
- John Conway, fl. 1775-1786
- Isabella Cousins, b. 1765
- Peter De Lafontaine, fl. 1746-1762
- Charlotte Dionis, b. 1761
- Timothy Dionis, 1704-1765
- Mary Ellenor, 1684-1708
- Sarah Gale, b. 1767
- John Gower, c. 1658-1684
- Joseph Guyant, c. 1738-72
- Shadrach Guy, c. 1693-1715
- Mary Harvey, fl. 1727-1733
- Nathaniel Hawes, c. 1701-1721
- Repentance Hedges, d. 1730
- Richard Hedges, d. 1716
- Rachel Herbert, b. c. 1716
- Joyce Hodgkins, c. 1672-1714
- Louis Houssart, c. 1684-1724
- Mabel Hughes c.1678-1755
- Ann Hurlock, 1736-1760
- William Jobbins, 1769-1790
- Catherine Jones, fl. 1757-1783
- Paul Patrick Kearney, fl.1727-1771
- Edward Kirk, fl. 1684
- Mary Knight, c.1685-1716
- Margaret Larney, c. 1724-1758
- Garret Lawler, 1725-1751
- Christopher Leonard, fl. 1721-1726
- George Lovell, alias Gypsy George, c. 1742-1772
- Priscilla Mahon alias Trilcourt, c. 1716-1741
- Sarah Malcolm, 1710-1733
- William Marjoram, fl. 1726
- Philip James May, fl. 1762-1788
- Mary Nichols, alias Trolly Lolly, c. 1685-1715
- John Page fl. 1742-1757
- Sarah Parker, fl. 1748-1769
- Sophia Pringle, c.1767-1787
- John Rann, d. 1774
- Alexander Scott, b. 1747
- John Simpson, fl. 1748-1754
- Francis David Stirn, 1735-1760
- Mary Talbot, c. 1766-1791
- William Tidd, c. 1729-50
- John Trantum or Trantrum, 1701-1721
- Richard Trantum or Trantham, 1698-1723
- William Udall, 1716-1739
- Daniel Vaughan, c. 1692-1716
- Jane Vobe, b. 1775
- Thomas Vobe, b. 1767
- Charlotte Walker, c. 1754-1806