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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/RG
TitleQuarter Sessions (registration): Poor rate returns
Date1801-1817
DescriptionComprising:
Q/RG/1/1 Summary returns of sums spent on poor relief, early 19th cent
Q/RG/2/1-6 Files of returns by hundred, early 19th cent
Q/RG/3/1-6 Parish returns by hundred, early 19th cent
Analytical returns relating to sums spent on the relief and maintenance of the poor 1800-1817. All the documents listed include the following headings: amount of poor rate, legal expenses incurred [? including expense incurred in removal of paupers]; charges arising from rate for work on county gaols and bridges; payments to militia men's families, bounties paid to substitutes; relief paid to persons travelling with passes, expense of conveying them; fines paid for road indictments; highway rate, church and constables' rate; expenses and salaries of overseers; other expenses; nett amount paid for support and relief of the poor.
For year ending Easter 1801 to year ending Easter 1817
LevelSubFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
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