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Incoming and outgoing correspondence

Includes elevation, section and floor plans. Architect: Edward Taylor, 7 Stonegate York. Plan approved by the Poor Law Board 04 June 1867.

Includes name of staff member, number of days work, amount of pay and signature of staff member

Includes name of staff member, office held, salary details, and signature of staff member

Includes name of staff member, office held, salary details, and signature of staff member

Includes name of staff member, office held, salary details, and signature of staff member

Handwritten minutes

Wet copy letter book comprising handwritten, outgoing copies of correspondence.

Correspondence relates primarily to administrative matters of the Rural Sanitary Authority.

Note that many of the letters in this book are extremely difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Includes index.

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Registers of staff service compiled principally to record superannuation payments. Includes name of staff member, office/position held, salary, dates of commencement and termination of service. May also include particulars of previous service.

Note: these volumes are dated according to the commencement date of staff, however there appear to be a small number of entries outside the covering dates. All volumes are indexed by surname of staff member.

See also PLU/11/3/3/5 York Poor Law Union Superannuation Registers

Register of staff service and superannuation payments. Indexed.

Register of staff service and superannuation payments. Indexed.

Register of staff service and superannuation payments. Indexed.

Register of staff service and superannuation payments. Indexed.

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.

Published year books of the York Poor Law Union.

Information within the year books varies from year to year but may include: general regulations and standing orders governing the union; committees serving the Union and Out-Relief Unions; lists of elected Guardians and other officers including length of service; committees; lists of parishes within the Union; and workhouse dietaries.

Includes minutes of all committees connected to the administration and maintenance of the York Union Workhouse (later the City Institution and then The Grange)

Includes approved and draft minutes

Includes approved minutes and draft minutes of the York Out-Relief Union Boards of Guardians and Relief Committees Nos 1,2, and 3.

See PLU/1/3/4-5 for combined mintues of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Finance Committee minutes; and PLU/1/4/1-8 for combined minutes of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Collecting Committee.

Includes some minutes and agendas

Handwritten minutes of the York Charities Register Committee.

Includes one small bundle of loose inserts from front of volume comprising general correspondence; an agenda; printed Abstract of Accounts for the Micklegate Freemen's Trust, 1938-1939; and signatures of those attending the meeting of 03 Jan 1911.

Guardians signed declarations on acceptance of office. Includes name of guardian, signature and date of declaration

Handwritten minutes

Approved bound minutes. Most volumes are indexed

Bequeaths the residue of his estate to his son George Gibson and appoints him executor

Bequeaths the house in which he lives with his wife Ann to her for her life and then to his son.

Bequeaths all rights in the Mint Yard property held of the Mayor and Commonalty to her son, George Gibson

Comprises weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief; also monthly summary relief statistics; and weekly returns from the various relief districts to the Public Assistance Committee.

Comprises weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief.

Weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief.

Records total numbers of men, women and children in institutions for the period Apr 1942-June 1948. Records total numbers in receipt of out-relief for the period Apr 1942-Jul 1943.

Includes relief lists of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Information recorded varied over time. Name of pauper and amount of relief received each week are always recorded; age and residence of pauper were also included at various periods. A statistical portion recording the classification of paupers appears in books from Sep 1848. Non-settled poor and Common Charges (irremovable poor and vagrants) are recorded in the back of books where relevant. Children boarded-out are also recorded for a short time in the early twentieth century. In some instances entries may indicate if an individual was sent to an institution (for example, the workhouse or the asylum).

From 1837 to 1848 records were divided into quarterly periods (March, June, September and December); from 1849 to 1948 they were divided into half-yearly periods. Please note that not all records survive.

Between 1898 and Mar 1904 the York City District was divided into City District 1 and City District 2; between 1905 and 1935 the City District was organised into East, West and North Districts; and from 1936 to 1948 it was organised into East, West, North and Central districts.

Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847

Relief lists record the amounts of out-relief (i.e. welfare payments in money or in kind) granted to individiuals on a weekly basis. Lists were kept by the Relieving Officers of the York Poor Law Union. Note that these lists record payments to individuals who were not in the workhouse.

Comprises weekly outdoor relief lists; abstracts of outdoor relief lists; and index of persons appearing in outdoor relief lists.