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Comprises records relating to property and buildings owned or tenanted by the York Poor Law Union.

Includes records concerning the sale and purchase of properties; the erection, development and maintenance of buildings; and the financing of building projects.

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.

Historic title deeds for Etridge's Royal Hotel

Hotel offered for sale following a case in Chancery [Wilkinson versus Wilkinson]. The Guardians purchased the hotel for the purpose of erecting new poor law offices.

Comprises correspondence; papers relating to sale and purchase; and historic title deeds s for Etridge's Royal Hotel.

Messuage in Blake Street in tenure of John Wilkinson, shoemaker, and messuage in Lendall Street in tenure of Mary Lund, widow.
Principal: £100; £3 to be repaid on 30 Nov next and £103 on 01 Jun 1699

Signed and sealed by Thomas and John Dalton

Messuage in the street formerly called Footless Lane, now Finkle Street, and sometime Lendall Street over against the Mint Yard, in the tenure of George Gibson and adjoining a messuage lately in the possession of Mr Thomas Leppington and now Mr Neesome on
east and a messuage of William Alderson on west, and all other tenements in York whereof Margaret Hawkesworth, widow died, seised, made in pursuance of the award of John Mays and Peter Johnson, esquires, of 28 April last according to bonds of submission of Nicholas Suger, George Gibson and John Simpson. Signed and sealed by Nicholas Suger and George Gibson

Consideration: 5 shillings

Made in performance of the award of John Mayes and Peter Johnson, esquires, dated 28 April last and according to bonds of submission of Nicholas Sugar, John Simpson and George Gibson of a bond dated 10 November 1720, from Philipp Langdale, esquire to Nicholas Suger as executor for Margaret Hawkesworth in £500 for payment of £260 as therein mentioned:

Of another bond from Marmaduke Langdale and Jordan Langdale for payment of the same sum (the first bond being for additional security) and of a third bond dated 9 November last from Thomas Hunt to Nicholas Suger in £20 for payment of £10 and interest, on all which bonds £149 10s and some interest remained due; and appointment by Nicholas Suger of George Gibson as his attorney as executor of Margaret Hawkesworth and John Simpson.

Term: 7 years from 25 March last.
Rent £10. The lessor to have the right of re-entry if the rent was 20 days in arrears. George Gibson was to maintain the premises (main timber, walls and slates or tiles excepted). Signed and sealed by John Simpson.

Principal: £50, repayable with interest on 02 April next.

A messuage , lately in the tenure of Margaret Hawkesworth, widow, grandmother of John Simpson and now in the tenure of George Gibson, his father in law. Signed and sealed by John Simpson

Signed and sealed by John Simpson
Consideration: £221.

Bequeathing to his grandfather, Henry Simpson, £20; to his brother in law George Gibson, £20; and to John Gibson 40 shillings

Appointment of his father in law, George Gibson as his executor. Witnesses: John Coulton, Robert Kitchin, Catherine Kitchin.

Proved in the Prerogative Court of York

Piece of ground in Finkell Street in the tenure of Mr Neesham, fronting the south side of George Gibson's house and containing in length 24 feet, 1 inch, and in depth adjoining Mr Wakefield's house, 18 feet 6 ins, according to the measurement lately taken by Mr William Etty and Mr William Mudd, carpenters. Signed and sealed by Darcy Dalton

Consideration: £10

As to the conveyance by George Gibson to the Directors of a house and ground for £230, taking the materials of the house at £60 in part payment, and clearing the ground of all rubbish, and having power to build upon a wall or pillars to be erected to the level of Mr Gibson's first floor at the expense of the Proprietors of the Assemby Rooms, with certain reservations as to lights. Signed Reuben Terry

A passage to the Assembly Rooms, the ground floor to the use of the Assembly Room and the residue of the property upwards to the use of George Gibson. Extracted from Drake's History of York.

Consideration: £200

1. George Gibson, York, innholder and George Gibson Junior, son and heir apparent.
2. Richard Farrer, upholsterer, and John Ellis, Clifton, gentleman
3. Elizabeth Dixon, widow
4. Ann Napier, one of the daughters of John Napier, merchant

House in Finkell Street of Little Lendal now in the possession of George Gibson, the father, subject to yearly rent charges of £20 to George Gibson and £12 to Elizabeth Dixon

Robert Halliday, Darlington, grocer to The Directors of the Assemby Rooms

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

1. Deed to lead the uses of a fine:
   Consideration: £1250
   George Gibson, York, mercer and Mary, his wife
   Richard Farrer, York, esquire
   Several messuages in Lendal Street and Blake Street, York, now in the occupation of William Bluitt, innholder

2. Fine
   Richard Farrer, plaintiff
   George Gibson and Mary his wife, deforciants
   Property in York (2 copies)

George Gibson to Richard Farrer for performance of covenants of the same date

Consideration £1257 6s
Elizabeth Gibson, Abberford, spinster, Joseph Hodskinson, Middlesex, grocer, George Gibson, York, mercer.

All rights in several messuages in Lendal Street and Blake Street, York, then in the occupation of William Bluitt, innholder, and part whereof stood over the pillars of the servants hall adjoining the Assembly Rooms.

John Ringrose to George Gibson

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

Thomas Etridge to John Ringrose

Consideration: £98 18s 6.
George Gibson, Manchester, manufacturer, executor of the late George Gibson, mercer, his father. Thomas Etridge, John Wallis, York, esquire.

No apparent connection with the property of its owners

Consideration: £1000
Thomas Etridge, John Mason, York, tea dealer
Edward Branton, York, tea dealer
James Barber, York, jeweller.

The above freehold property, and a leasehold messuage and garth in Blake Street, whereupon a billiard room has recently been erected, lately in the occupation of Tristam Hood and now of Thomas Etridge, which is subject to a rent charge of £6 3s 10d for the poor of St Wilfred's parish, York.

Thomas Etridge to John Mason, James Barber and Edward Branton

Includes correspondence from the Poor Law Commissioners and 1818 report of the Workhouse sub-committee regarding possible classification of paupers.

Includes correspondence, draft and copy conveyances, inventory, valuation, and other papers

Includes clerks fees; evidence regarding occupation of houses; receipts for expenses, correspondence, conditions of sale; and draft conveyances.

From St Lawrence, York to Wheldrake

Handwritten minutes. Includes monthly note of number of persons in the 'House' (Workhouse) at Marygate and amount of money spent on relief. Also numbers of vagrants relieved.

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

Approved, bound minutes of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.

The Guardians met weekly or fortnightly to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.

The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case before the Guardians .

Some volumes are indexed or partially indexed

Includes inventory of and valuation of workhouse

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment book

Records details of individuals who applied for relief (welfare) through the Relieving Officer of the York Poor Law Union and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Comprises application and report books; abstracts of application and report books; and application, report and transitional payments determination lists (Public Assistance Committee).

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.

Poor rate assessment books

Comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Commitee.

Comprises general ledgers for the York Poor Law Union; York Out-Relief Union; Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union .

Ledgers containing summary accounts for the York Poor Law Union.

Includes accounts from individual officers (Treasurer, Vaccination Officer, Relieving Officers and other officials) as well as general accounts relating to the administration of the Union.

Volumes prior to 1849 include summary parochial accounts which record amounts spent on relief in each parish. Parochial accounts from 1849 onwards are recorded in separate parochial ledgers (see PLU/12/3/1).

Comprises poor rate books for parishes within the city area of the York Poor Law Union. Also includes some lighting rate books.

Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.

Note that earlier rate books may not include a street address for the property.

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment books

Comprises receipt and payment books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee; the York Out-Relief Union; the Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions; and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.

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 application and report books, which record details of individuals who applied for out- relief from the York Poor Law Union. The records were kept by the Relieving Officer.

Information recorded may include: name of applicant; age; address; occupation (if any); marital status; if a child whether orphaned, deserted or illegitimate; the presence of disability or illness; reason for applying for relief; and details of relief granted. Also includes decisions to send individuals to the workhouse or other institutions. From the 1840s to the 1860s non-settled poor and Common Charges (irremovable poor and vagrants) are recorded in the back of books, where relevant.

Application details were recorded by the Relieving Officers of the York Poor Law Union. Books are divided into quarterly periods (March, June, September and December). Please note, not all records survive.

The majority of surviving records are for the City District of York, although three volumes survive for the Rural District for 1879, 1880 and 1884 (see PLU/3/1/1/94-95 and PLU/3/1/1/97)

Comprises general correspondence sent by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union, and, from 1930, the Public Assistance Officer of the Public Assistance Committee.

The correspondence concerns the general administration and application of the New Poor Law by the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee. Included in this correspondence are letters concerning individuals who applied for, or were receiving relief.

The letters are handwritten up to 1903, and typed from 1903 onwards.

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment book

Comprises minutes of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union (also known as Union minutes); and from 1929 the minutes of the Public Assistance Committee.

See also Flaxton Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/12; and York Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/13

Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books
See also PLU/9/1/31/1 for joint rate book of Minster Yard with Bedern, Mint Yard and St Michael-le-Belfrey

Comprises handwritten copies of letters.

The majority of this volume is for the period 1837-1843 with one copy of a letter from 1849. Indexed

Handwritten minutes. Indexed

Prepared by John Harper, architect. Signed by William Snarr, bricklayer, Thomas Robinson, joiner, and T & W Hodgson, plumbers.

Comprises 2 volumes for Dec 1837 quarter

Poor rate assessment book

Comprises receipts and registers of relief granted on loan to individuals by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment book

Includes name of individual receiving the loan from the York Poor Law Union and amount loaned.

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment book

Poor rate assessment books

Handwritten minutes. Indexed

Comprises notices of deaths and one notice of admission directed to the Clerk to Visitors, Lunatic Asylums
Grove House Acomb was a private asylum.

Poor rate assessment book