POOR LAW UNIONS

The records of each Union have been arranged under the headings and in order shown below:-

Superseded authorities

Primary minutes

Secondary minutes

Rating records

Financial and statistical records

Correspondence, circulars, reports and orders

Pauper case records

In-door and out-door poor relief records

Workhouse admission, discharge, birth, baptism and death records

Miscellaneous workhouse records

Miscellaneous Union records

To find out in which Union a particular parish was located please refer to the Parish Information Lists in the search room at WSRO

The surviving records of the Wiltshire Unions have been arranged within the catalogue in the following order:-

Alderbury Union

Amesbury Union

Bradford-on-Avon Union

Calne Union

Chippenham Union

Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Union

Devizes Union

Highworth and Swindon Union

Malmesbury Union

Marlborough Union

Melksham Union

Mere Union

Pewsey Union

Salisbury Union - see Alderbury Union

Tisbury Union

Warminster Union

Westbury and Whorwellsdown Union

Wilton Union

Miscellaneous Union

The Wiltshire Joint Poor law Establishment Committee

<span class="wrapper"><p>For post 1930 records see Catalogue Number F13</p> <p>The records of the Hungerford and Ramsbury Union are deposited with the Berkshire Record Office, and a detailed catalogue of these records is available for inspection in the Wiltshire Record Office.</p> <p>Please ask for 'Outside List' number 71.</p></span>

Unions overlapping from one county to another

A number of Wiltshire parishes, located principally along the eastern and southern borders of the county, came within Unions based in adjoining counties. Correspondingly, a number of Wiltshire Unions included a small number of parishes situated in adjoining counties.

The details of these overlapping Unions are given below:-

Andover Union; 4 parishes in Wiltshire, 28 parishes in Hampshire,

Bradford-on-Avon Union; 7 parishes in Wiltshire, 1 parish in Somerset,

Cirencester Union; 5 parishes in Wiltshire, 34 parishes in Gloucestershire,

Faringdon Union; Part of the parish of Coleshill; other part of Berkshire, 25 parishes in Berks 1 parish in Gloucestershire,

Fordingbridge Union; 4 parishes in Wiltshire, 8 parishes in Hampshire,

Hungerford and Ramsbury Union; 12 parishes in Wiltshire, 1 parish in Hampshire,

Mere Union; 9 parishes in Wiltshire, 2 parishes in Dorset 2 parishes in Somerset,

New Forest Union; 1 parish in Wiltshire, 8 parishes in Hampshire,

Romsey Union; 3 parishes in Wiltshire, 11 parishes in Hampshire,

Stockbridge Union; Part of the parish of West dean; other part of Hampshire, 18 parishes in Hampshire,

Tetbury Union; 2 parishes in Wiltshire, 11 parishes in Gloucestershire.