Project ID: 960
| Description | Some Outdoor Poor Relief records for Warrington from the late 18th Century have been digitised by the Transcription Group attached to Warrington u3a Family History Group. |
| Topics | Social history Genealogy |
| Type | U3A-led research (SLP) |
| U3A | Warrington U3A |
| Organization/partner | Culture Warrington Museum |
| Year started | 2020 |
| Source of reference | Hand-written ledgers |
| Output | A searchable database on the museum's website is being produced. |
| Notes | The Transcription Group transcribed the handwritten ledgers covering the years 1798 to 1810 and 1826 to 1830. (The museum has no records for the intervening years.) The pages are copied by the Museum and sent to the group electronically. The earlier ledger contained only the names & addresses of the recipients, the amounts they received, and occasionally some other pieces of information; The later one had more information:- the names and ages of the family members, their occupations and earnings, details of illnesses or disabilities if they were unable to work, the amount of rent they paid, and the amount of relief they received. This obviously made it more interesting to work on and will be of more use to future family historians. As with our other projects, all the spreadsheets were collated onto a master database on the Museum's website which can be searched by members of the public. |