Name Index to some London Poor Law Records - ancestry

[kiterunner]

At last! Some of the records are searchable by name!

Settlement and removals in the unions of Bethnal Green, Hackney, Poplar, Shoreditch, and Stepney:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2651


These were indexed by the World Archives Project, so the index is free, but you can only view the images if you have a sub or use credits.

[Sue from Southend]

I've spent hours over that last few weeks trawling the recently updated Poor Law records with quite a lot of success. Some of the records I've found manually are not appearing on the search but others that I hadn't found have surfaced including my elusive 3x gt grandmother.

I knew my famliy were not wealthy but I am quite astonished at how many of them have appeared in these records.

[marquette]

Ooh, I have found a record of settlement for Bilby James Berry Farrow in Hackney Workhouse, which confirms what I knew. It fills in the picture for him a bit more.