• PARISH RECORDS
• 1 - Overseers' accounts
• 2 - Vestry minutes
• 3 - Bastardy, settlement, apprenticeship
• 10 - Parish registers
• POOR LAW UNION
• 4 - Relieving officer's records
• 5 - Guardians' minutes
• 6 - Correspondence
• 7 - General ledger
• 8 - Rate books
• REGISTRAR GENERAL
• 9 - Census records
• METHODOLOGY
• Nominal record linkage



~ Paupers of the Cleobury Mortimer Union ~

What is a prosopography?	Map of the Union parishes	Record sources	Treatment of records	Query the database

OVERSEERS' ACCOUNTS

Work has not yet started on this dataset

There are only eight parishes for which accounts have survived. Analysis will be necessary to determine whether or not they are sufficiently similar in the way relief was applied to draw any conclusions about how generally representative they are, but it will not be possible to draw any firm conclusions on the application of relief in those ‘missing’ parishes without some corroborating information.

In the main, these contain short, line by line entries recording the amount of relief given to an individual. Typically, they contain name, date and amount with perhaps some form of descriptor applied to the individual, or to their state. There are well over 30,000 lines which makes for a challengin addition to a prosopgraphy, but one which should provide very rich data.

The overseers were responsible for paying medical expenses. These were highlighted, so it should be possible to build a picture of medical relief.

SOURCE SET 1
OVERSEERS' ACCOUNTS
Type: Structured / semi-structured	Period: Old Poor Law
ASTON BOTTERELL	1787-1837	234pp
CLEOBURY MORTIMER	1770-1821	1096pp
CORELEY	1797-1826	374pp
HIGHLEY	1769-1802	146pp
HOPTON WAFERS	1816-1838	282pp
NEEN SAVAGE	1770-1837	476pp
ROCK	1770-1774, 1804-1835
WHEATHILL	1786-1837	150pp