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Includes nomination lists and voting returns for the election of Commissioners in all four wards (Monk, Walmgate, Micklegate and Bootham). Nomination lists may include the names of those qualified to vote for Commissioners as well as the names of individuals nominated for election.

Letters and associated papers concerning street and drainage improvements.

The notebooks contain information on water levels, soundsing and dredging the river around Naburn Lock.

Includes report of the Ouse Navigation Committee to York City Council, with a map of the river, September 1881; plan of the Ouse from York to Hull; report by Thoman Rhodes, C.E with map of River Ouse from Linton Lock to Selby, 1834; report by Thomas Rhode

Comprises returns of pauper lunatics. The returns include personal details of patients.

At present this series only includes a receipt for title deeds relating to a close at Holtby sold to Mr Brook by Mr Warburton. Please see item level description for more detailed information.

Registers of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Papers presented to the Manorial Court in Clifton, and dealt with by the court jurors. The records are organised into annual bundles.

Bank books for an account with the York City and County Banking Company.

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Includes inventory of and valuation of workhouse

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

Poor rate assessment books

All except CEM/5/2/12 are available on microfilm.

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).

Poor rate assessment books

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.

Cash books relating to the financial operations of York Cemetery. These volumes cover York Cemetery Company and later York Cemetery Trust following the Company's liquidation.

Available on microfilm. Volumes 1-6 have duplicate copies created at a later date, commissioned by the Cemetery to provide an additional copy to original records.

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)

Contains number of grave, name of purchaser and sum paid.

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 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.

Papers relating to the gas lighting of York's streets

Includes roll for 1839, and books for 1846-1851, 1852-1857, 1858-1863, 1864-1869, 1870-1873 and 1884-1893.

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Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books

Contains summary information for a small number of the complete volumes of Application and Report Books (see ref: PLU/3/1/1). Records details of individuals who applied for relief to the York Poor Law Union.

Includes name of applicant; age; reason for applying for relief; relief given and duration of relief. Also records decisions to send individuals to the workhouse or other institutions.

Includes copies of Canal Boat Acts, reports into the usage of British Waterways, Royal Commission reports and papers relating to companies who passed through Naburn Lock.

Operational records and photographs of York Public Library, including drawings, stock books, accessions registers and papers regarding the foundation of the library in 1892. Also includes papers regarding the new premises for the library in Museum Street.

Includes minutes of meetings of the Committee of York School of Art, covering issues of concern to the management of the school.

Draft and rough general accounts for the York Poor Law Union

Meeting minutes from the York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee

Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.

Includes a pamphlet 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee' (with covering letter), a flyer entitled 'Mr. George Leeman's Last Words to his Fellow Citizens, November 11th, 1881', one catalogue of books held in the library, a collection of newspaper articles collected by the York Free Library Committee, correspondence files and architectural drawings.

Papers concerning the widening of streets and construction of new streets in the Castlegate and Water Lanes area.

General correspondence files relating to the work of the School of Art.

Relief order books were kept by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union and later the Public Assistance Committee.

The books record orders for out-relief granted by the York Guardians/Public Assistance Committee in response to applications put forward by the Relieving Officer (see PLU/3/1 Application and Report books).

Details entered into the books include: name of applicant seeking relief, name of parish/relief district; quantity and description of relief; and how many weeks relief was granted.

Note that books were dated in quarterly periods. For example Mar 1910-Sep 1910 = quarter ending in March to quarter ending in September and would therefore cover the months Jan-Sep 1910.

Notices to individuals to quit properties and remove waste.

Financial ledgers recording balances of accounts for each parish within the York Poor Law Union.

Accounts are recorded in two half-yearly periods ending in March and September.

Comprises a list of names of York Streets and a public notice.

Poor rate assessment books

Town Clerk's correspondence concerning the accommodation and maintenance of pauper lunatics.

Includes burial certificate, probate of the will of Jane Lumley, expenses and receipts related to the proving of the will and codicil, Inland Revenue account and additional papers.

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

Documents relating to various financial and business matters of the York Penitentiray Society Ladies Committee.

Books detailing wages for various paid positions at the York Cemetery Company. Includes details of memebrs of staff and salaries paid for different roles.

Poor rate assessment books.

Includes plans and associated correspondence papers relating to sewage systems in York.

Ledgers for the York Cemetery including name of deceased and amounts paid for various different services such as public graves and stonework.

Various documents relating to the York Society for the Prevention of Youthful Depravity, including a minute book and a printed tract and poster.

Papers relating to the widening and improvement of Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place).

Poor rate assessment books

Includes receipts, invoices and cheque stubs arranged chronologically. Incomplete series. The collection is not thought to represent all the financial transactions accrued by the Company during this period. Some later files also include correspondence and press cuttings.

Please note that receipt stubs are usually contained in five year bundles, but filed with the records of the first year concerned. The records up until 1890 correspond with the entries in BUT/2/1. These files were originally contained in a metal deed box. See BUT/4 for the deed box itself, which has also been retained.

Accounts kept by the Relieving officer of the York Poor Law Union (prior to 1894) and the York Out-Relief Union (post 1894) and the Public Assistance Committee (post 1930).

Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer of the Poor Law Union, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.

Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume. Only records names of inidividuals in relation to fees incurred for examinations to determine settlement status.

Includes records for the rural and city districts 1862-1897 and records for the city district only post 1897. See PLU/3/5/2-4 for records of the rural district post 1897 .

Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.

Overview account books for Blacksmiths and Masons' associated with York Cemetery.

Research notes using Acomb Manor Court Rolls held at York City Archives (Now Explore York Libraries and Archives) and the Borthwick Institute. Also includes a complete database based on the Acomb Manor Court Rolls.

Poor rate assessment books

Notebooks kept by the recorder of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, detailing particular cases heard by the court.

Papers of the Local Board of Health regarding an enquiry into the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes initial enquiry and replies from other local authorities; list of complaints against private slaughterhouses in York; particulars of animals slaughtered in York; reports of the Sub-Committee on Slaughterhouses; and a petition from butchers in York against the erection of a public slaughterhouse.

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

Conracts for building work at the Workhouse

For work carried out at York Workhouse

Bills of costs for building work at York Workhouse

Includes a letter sent to Mrs Simpson from Jules le Messurier, sent by balloon during a siege, as well as lecture notes regarding French history, newspaper cuttings and published booklets.

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Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books

Extensive notes about performances of plays, mostly at the Theatre Royal, York. Information includes the title of the play, the theatre company performing it, the theatre where it was performed, dates of performances, a brief summary of the run of the production elsewhere, character lists, lists of other performers taking part in the production (e.g. chorus singers), summaries of the plays act by act, and personal observations on performances.

Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officers) of the York Poor Law Union.

Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination or whether vaccination was not carried.

Volumes PLU/8/1/1/18 -PLU/8/1/1/27 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination should be delayed or is not necessary.

NOTE: volumes 8-18 are MISSING as at Nov 2016

Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officer) of the York Poor Law Union.

Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination and whether it was successful.

Volumes PLU/8/1/2/17-PLU/8/1/2/26 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination is delayed or not necessary.

Alphabetical lists of theatre actors and the roles they played in various productions. Also includes three sheets of notes dating from the early 20th century about the contents of the dictionaries themselves.

Poor rate assessment books

Contain summary accounts for the York Rural Sanitary Authority.

Financial ledgers recording half-yearly balances of accounts for each parish covered by the Rural Sanitary Authority.

Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books

Poor rate assessment books

Contains information on owners, rivers the boats used, cargo, size and subsequent owners.

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Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of the York Workhouse and successor institutions.
Includes name; age; occupation; religion; parish/ward; date of admission and discharge; and other observations.

Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks

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Accounts include cash book journals, balance sheet books, receipt books, auditors accounts and loss book.

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Letter to the Municipal electors of Bootham Ward from Ralph Davison and Robert Marchant

Incomplete set of annual diaries with handwritten notes by Frederick Adolphus Camidge.

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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.

Papers relating to the death and estate of Eliza Mary Croft, including letters of administration.

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Series contains minutes of the York Central Conservative Club.. This is in the forms of minute books, sub committee books and minute papers.

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Reports on typhoid fever outbreaks in York.

Certificates and licences issued to Frederick Adolphus Camidge, primarily as part of his civic life and role as a solicitor in York.

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