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This record is about the Boards of Guardians Records dating from 1703-1977.

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Reference: PU
Title: Boards of Guardians Records
Date: 1703-1977
Description: Poor Law Boards 1834-1930: Ashton-under-Lyne PUA Will be transferred to Tameside; Barton-upon-Irwell PUE Will be transferred to Salford; Blackburn PUK; Bolton PUD Transferred to Bolton Archives; Burnley PUZ; Bury PUB Will be transferred to Bury; Chorley PUX; Clitheroe PUC; Fylde PUF; Garstang PUY; Haslingden PUH; Lancaster PUL; Leigh PUM Transferred to Wigan RO; Lunesdale PUN; Manchester PUJ, PUG Will be transferred to Manchester; Oldham PUO Will be transferred to Oldham; Ormskirk PUS; Prescot PUP; Preston PUT; Rochdale PUR; Ulverston PUU Transferred to Borrow RO; Warrington PUV Will be transferred to Warrington; West Derby PUQ Will be transferred to Liverpool; Wigan PUW Transferred to Wigan RO. Other Poor Law records:: Swinton Industrial Schools PUG; Turton workhouse rules UDTU 19; North-Western Poor Law Conference, Ulverston, 1908 DDX 524/4.
Held by: Lancashire Archives
Language: English
Access conditions: Some records are subject to closure.
Immediate source of acquisition: Records from the Poor Law Unions of Burnley, Oldham, Preston, Warrington and Wigan were deposited by their respective county boroughs.
Unpublished finding aids: <p>A plan of Poor Law Union boundaries in 1926 is available in the searchroom: please ask at the enquiries desk.</p>
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/3dc594f2-d782-43bd-9e22-9d6229f2fa21/