• 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 ~

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GENERAL LEDGER

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The general ledgers for the period are recorded in 15 weighty tomes. They do not, or should not, contain any individual pauper information and although they do show the amounts disbursed by the relieving officers, there is no guarantee that those total amounts were made up solely of relief to paupers. There would be great benefit in scanning through the pages, looking for unusual items and recording those with a view to additional research.

SOURCE SET 7
GENERAL LEDGER
Type: Semi-structured	Period: Poor Law Union
Poor Law Union – General Ledger	1836 – 1870	15 books