✨Wiki Wednesday✨ - Using Poor Law Records for Research

LGPreston

England's poor law records can be a goldmine for those of us tracing our English ancestors. They date from 1600 right up to 1948! Some records are statistical, but some contain names, dates, ages and places.

Why not take a look at the link below and see if there are any online records in your area of research? You never know what you may discover!

England Poor Law

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Poor_Law

English poor law resulted from a gradual development of a poor relief or welfare system dating to medieval times[1]. The first laws enacted for dealing with poverty, vagrancy, and economic distress were the Statutes of Labourers of 1349-1351.[2]