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Accounts for the farming of pigs

Comprises accounts, inventories, registers of artices required by the Master; and register of visitors.

Includes admission and discharge books for the inmates of the York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange); admission and discharge books for the casual (wandering) poor; and porters' admission and discharge books.

Admission and discharge books kept by the Porters' of The Grange.
Includes name; age; occupation; religion; residence; name and address of nearest relative; date of admission and discharge; and how discharged.

Includes records relating to governance of the Union; indoor relief (workhouse relief); outdoor relief; the collection of relief; settlement and removal; child welfare; hospitals and asylums; public health; assessment and rating; civil registration; the general administration of the Union (including staffing); financial records; legal case paper and summonses; and records relating to properties and buildings owned or tenanted by the Union.

Many of the records relating to indoor relief and outdoor relief contain information on individuals.

Includes records of the York Public Assistance Committee, which was responsible for the administration of the Poor Law from 1930-1948.

Comprises minutes of committee meetings of the York Poor Law Union (including the York Out-Relief Union, the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, the Flaxton Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union); and from 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Also includes the minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority; and minutes of organisations administered by the York Poor Law Union including the York Charities Register Committee and Hodgson's Charity Committee.

Comprises records relating to the admission, discharge and maintenance of inmates of the York Workhouse, which was later known at the City Institution and then The Grange). Relief granted within the workhouse was termed 'indoor relief' as opposed to 'outdoor relief' which was granted to the poor in their own homes (i.e.outside the Workhouse).

Also includes records relating to the staffing and administration of the Workhouse.

Comprises records relating to the maintenance of pauper patients in hospitals and asylums.

Includes records relating to the City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge; the York City Mental Hospital at Naburn; and Grove House, a private asylum at Acomb.

Comprises records relating to the preventative public health measures administered by the York Poor Law Union.

Includes vaccination registers; register of tuberculosis notifications; and correspondence of the York Rural Sanitary Authority.

Comprises records concerning the welfare of children who came into the care of the York Poor Law Union and later the Pubic Assistance Committee.

Includes records relating to apprenticeships; registers of children boarded out and in farm service; register for enforcing school attendance; and correspondence concerning the boarding out of children.

Comprises records relating to the administration of the poor rate. The poor rate was a local tax on the yearly value of a property, levied by the parish. The money collected from poor rates was used to help finance relief for the poor as well as the infrastructure of administering that relief.

From 1837 to 1925 the York Poor Law Union was responsible for administering the poor rate, and from time to time other rates (such as the lighting rate).

Comprises records relating to the civil registration of births, deaths and marriages. Poor law unions were used as registration districts from 1837, when civil registration was introduced.

Includes the outgoing letterbooks of the Superintendent Registrar; and correspondence between the Superintendent Registrar of York and the Registrar General, London.

Comprises records relating to legal cases pursued by or involving the York Poor Law Union.

Includes legal case papers, summonses, warrants, orders and inquests.

Comprises records relating to the administration of relief granted to the poor in their own home (i.e. outside the Workhouse, hence the term 'outdoor relief').

Includes application and report books, weekly outdoor relief lists, relief order books, relief granted on loan, relieving officers' receipt and expenditure books, relief in kind books and records relating to medical relief.

Comprises records relating to the collection of relief from liable individuals.

The York Poor Law Union (and later the Public Assistance Committee) attempted to recover money spent on relief that had been granted to the poor. They ordered individuals - usually liable relatives - to contribute towards the cost of maintaining those in receipt of poor relief. The collection of relief was administered by the Collecting Committee.

Includes order books, notices to contribute, payment ledgers, receipt and payment books, registers of insurance benefits and adjourned cases, claim made to the Ministry of Health, and Collectors' accounts and correspondence.

See also PLU/13/1 for legal cases relating to recovery of relief.

Comprises records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Includes correspondence; statistics and returns; staffing records; government orders; and publications and other printed material.

Comprises financial records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Includes financial statements; general ledgers; parochial ledgers; treasurers' ledgers; treasurers' receipt and payment books; invoices; petty cash books; receipts; and other account books.

For financial records relating specifically to outdoor relief see PLU/3/5

For financial records relating specifically to the collection of relief see PLU/5/10

Includes details of poor persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Note, this volume contains only three entries.

Includes application form; and letter from applicant

Includes correspondence and circulars relating to the implementation of the Act.

This volume records only a list of numbers (probably case numbers) and a small number of names. The register appears to be a draft version or incomplete working record.

Includes loose rough list of names from page 2

Comprises contracts for tradesmen; certificates of amounts due from tradesmen; bills of costs from tradesmen; account of bills; cash paid and total costs of buildings.

Messuage in Finkle Street or Lendal, over against Mint Yard, late in the tenure of Madam Grace Carnaby.
Signed and sealed by Tim and Philadelphia Stevenson and Thomas Pickering, Mayor. Seal wanting.
Consideration: £70

Messuage in Blake Street, formerly in tenure of John Wilkinson, shoemaker, and now of William Huntley, and another messuage in Lendall Street formerly in tenure of Mary Lund, widow and now of Robert Nesome, subject to mortgage.

Consideration: £200

Signed and sealed by Darcy Dalton

Consideration - £1340
George Gibson, Evan Richard Gerard, Haighton, Lancaster, esquire, heir of Richard Farrer, John Ringrose, York, innholder. Messuage of Blake Street and Finkel Street

Application form only

Application form and reference

Application form only

Ministry of Health Publication

Messuage in Blake Street, and a messuage in Lendall Street, and reciting lease and release, 1698. Signed and sealed by Charles Dalton and Darcy Dalton

Consideration: £100.

This volume contains a list of names only. Includes an invoice for stationery from Mary Moxon Stationers to Mr Leafe the Relieving Officer (insert in second opening of record)

Register of income and expenditure recurring on a monthly basis for the York Poor Law Union.

Includes loose bundle of rough notes from inside the front cover of volume.

Includes application form; service certificate; letter from applicant; and newspaper advertisement of vacancy

Includes application form; medical certificate; newspaper advertisement for the position; and two letters from applicant seeking increase in salary

Inventories of furniture

Inventories of furniture

Rough listing of admissions indexed by surname. Includes name and ward only.

Ministry of Health Publication

Consideration: £100 lent by Henry Cowpland, gentleman, deceased, late of Hawkswell and formerly of Cowton Hall near Smeaton, to Thomas Dalton and John Dalton, and which was still owing to Darcy Dalton as executor of Henry Cowpland and a further £80 paid by Darcy Dalton.

James Dalton, Lieutenant in Brigadier James Dormer's Regiment of Foot, son and heir of John Dalton, late of Beedale, gentleman, deceased who was son and heir of Thomas Dalton of Beedall, esquire, deceased to Reverend Darcy Dalton of Aston, County of Yorkshire, Clerk.
Messuage in Blake Street, now in the tenure of William Huntley and that in Lendall Street now in the tenure of William Nesome. Signed and sealed by James Dalton

Inventories of furniture

Includes application form and copy of vacancy advertisement

Includes application form; service certificate; and newspaper advertisement of the vacancy

Includes application form; and medical certificate

Application form only

Application form only

Application form only