Manchester, Lancashire Poor Law Union

History

For more information see The Workhouse, Manchester Poor Law Union

The union at formation had 12 constituent townships

Blackley,Manchester Poor Law Records, Lancashire England, Bradford Manchester, Lancashire, Poor Law Union Records,  Cheetham Manchester, Poor Law Records, Crumpsall Poor Law records,  Failsworth, Lancashire Poor Law Records, Harpurhey, Great Heaton, Little Heaton, Manchester , Moston (Manchester) Poor Law Records , Newton (Manchester) Poor Law Union Records ,  Prestwich Poor Law Records. 

The post 1850 Manchester Union had the following constituent parishes:

Ancoats St Andrew, Lancashire , Lancashire Beswick, Lancashire , Cheetham Hill St Mark, Lancashire , Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire
Manchester All Souls, Lancashire , Manchester St Ann, Lancashire ,
Manchester St Barnabas, Lancashire , Manchester St George, Lancashire
Manchester St James, Lancashire , Manchester St John, Lancashire ,
Manchester St Mary, Lancashire , Manchester St Matthew, Campfield, Lancashire ,
Manchester St Michael, Lancashire , Manchester St Paul, Lancashire ,
Manchester St Peter, Lancashire , Manchester St Peter, Oldham Road, Lancashire
Manchester St Philip, Lancashire ,Manchester St Philip, Bradford Road, Lancashire ,Newton All Saints, Lancashire

Records

• Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives), 56 Marshall Street, New Cross, Manchester, M4 5FU. The few surviving holdings include: Workhouse admissions and discharges (1841-5); Creed registers (1881-1914, with gaps); Lists of children sent to Swinton Industrial School (1846-64); etc.

Records of admissions for the New Bridge Street Workhouse, Manchester, 1880-1899 Microfilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England.
Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L 49/2/11/1-4, L 49/2/12/1-4.

Content	Film
Record of admissions, 1880-1887 (includes year of birth and religion of each person).	Record of admissions, 1880-1887 (includes year of birth and religion of each person).
Record of admissions, 1889-1899.	FS Library BRITISH Film 2355903 Items 1 - 12

Religious creed register, 1881-1914 Manchester Workhuse Microfilm of original records at Manchester Library. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949

Content	Film
Religious creed register 1881-1901	FS Library BRITISH Film 93981
Religious creed register 1901-1914	FS Library BRITISH Film 93982

• Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2RE. Swinton Industrial School admissions and discharges (1846-8, 1850-1934); indexes (1848-1935); etc.

Bibliography

• Provision for the Relief of the Poor in Manchester 1754-1826 Gordon Bradley Hindle Includes bibliography (p. 179-186) and index. Manchester : Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, c1975
  
• Workhouses and hospitals of North Manchester Includes lists of officials of the workshouses (p.71). Susan Hall Publication Radcliffe, Manchester : Neil Richardson, 2004
  71 p. : illustrations, facsimiles., maps, ports.
  ISBN/ISSN 1852161612
  
• The account book of Casey's charity : an indexed transcript 1794-1847 with an index of 13,000 names
  transcribed by Tony and Margaret Butler
  Author John Casey
  Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society
  
  
  

Websites

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ PeterHeginbotham's website has details of all Manchester workhouse locations