Records of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union

The following parishes comprised the 1836 union:

Bawdeswell

Beeston

Beetley

Billingford

Bilney, East

Bintry

Brisley

Bylaugh

Colkirk

Cranworth

Dereham, East

Dunham, Great

Dunham, Little

Elmham, North

Elsing

Foxley

Fransham, Great

Fransham, Little

Garvestone

Gately

Gressenhall

Guist

Hardingham

Hockering

Hoe

Horningtoft

Kempstone

Letton

Lexham, East

Lexham, West

Litcham

Longham

Lyng

Mattishall

Mattishall Burgh

Mileham

Oxwick with Pattesley

Reymerstone

Rougham

Scarning

Shipdham

Southburgh

Sparham

Stanfield

Swanton Morley

Thuxton

Tittleshall

Tuddenham, East

Tuddenham, North

Twyford

Weasenham All Saints

Weasenham St. Peter

Wellingham

Wendling

Westfield

Whinburgh

Whissonsett

Wood Rising

Worthing

Yaxham

<span class="wrapper"><p>Road Order box 1 no. 14a dated 1777 is connected with the Gressenhall workhouse</p> <p>For records of Guardians Committee No 10 (including administration of Gressenhall Public Assistance Institution and children's home) see C/GC 10</p> <p>Some pre - 1930 records are also listed there, especially: Workhouse and Institution register of inmates, 1926-1943</p> <p>(C/GC 10/9)</p> <p>Workhouse and Institution religious creed register, 1918-1939</p> <p>(C/GC 10/10)</p> <p>Workhouse and Institution religious creed register, 1921-1947</p> <p>(C/GC 10/11)</p> <p>Workhouse and Institution register of births, 1914-1951</p> <p>(C/GC 10/15)</p> <p>Workhouse and Institution register of deaths, 1914-1945</p> <p>(C/GC 10/16)</p></span>

Records received by the Norfolk Record Office on unknown dates, 6 June 1979 (C/GP 14/1a [part]), 3 February 1984 (C/GP 14/136 and 21 July 1989 (C/GP 14/137), 18 May 1976 (C/GP 14/47-49, 82, 101, 104 110-113), 18 March 1976 (C/GP 14/105), 15 August 1978 (C/GP 14/135

All fifty parishes of Mitford and Launditch Hundreds were incorporated in 1775 under the terms of An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, 15 Geo. III, cap. 59. In 1801 the parish of East Dereham separated from the Incorporation, but in 1836 all fifty original parishes plus ten from Eynesford Hundred joined together in a new union. The House of Industry belonging to the old incorporation, built at Gressenhall in 1776-1777, was repaired and altered in 1836 to become the new Union Workhouse.

Mitford and Launditch Union Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 10 in 1930.

C/GP 14/1a, 2-9, 10 (Part only), 102-103, 137 are available on microform.