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Coventry Liberal Association selection committee for Board of Guardians elections, 1890s. PA68/2.
Holy Trinity parish poor used Saint Nicholas' Hall, 1738. PA90/21.
Drapers' Company poor rate receipts, 1871 - 1909. PA99/9/4-5; PA99/11/8-14; PA99/12/6-8; PA99/13/6,7; PA99/14/8,9; PA99/15/5-8; PA99/16/7-10; PA99/17/5,6; PA99/18/4-6; PA99/19/8-11; PA99/20/7-98.
Poor rate receipts, Saint Michael's parish, 1806-11. PA101/1/25-33.
Mortgage of Foleshill Old Workhouse, 1754-65. PA101/4/11-18.
Bond for parish rate collection at Foleshill, 1841. PA101/4/117.
Bunney family owned ex-Saint Michael's parish workhouse, Hill Street, early nineteenth century. PA101/7/148.
Poor rate receipts for Robert Bunney's estate, 1852-54. PA101/7/173-175,203,204.
Note about poor-rate rise, 1883. PA101/7/562.
Extract from Foleshill Union Assessment Committee Valuation List, c,1867, PA101/8/128.
Bulkington, Warwickshire poor rate collector was a yeoman's executor, 1872. PA101/8/210.
James Moore of Foleshill (poor-rate collector) was named a farmer's executor, 1854. PA101/8/410.
William Tinsley of Foleshill, relieving-officer, was named a farmer's executor, 1890. PA101/8/411.
T.F. Tickner of Foleshill, relieving-officer, witnessed assignment of "Shoulder of Mutton" inn, Bell Green, 1866: PA101/8/585.
Clerk to directors of Coventry Poor Law Union was named a grocer's executor, 1862. PA101/9/68.
John Moore of Foleshill, rates-collector, was a widow's executor, 1858. PA101/9/150,151.
Poor rate receipts for Tamworth union (Wilnecote parish), 1869-70. PA101/10/91,92,97-99.
Poor and watch rates receipts, Coventry, 1889. PA101/11/158-159.
Exhall parish officers' enclosure-allotments, 1763. PA101/127.
Spratton, Northamptonshire land, 1784. PA101/147/6.
Holy Trinity parish officers had a Cook Street messuage, 1807. PA202/1/9.
Foleshill, Shilton and Ansty poor-law administration, early nineteenth century,. PA206/5/1-7.
Abstract of Coventry Poor Relief Bill, c.1800. PA219/18.
Meriden Union rate-receipt, 1887. PA242/9/39.
Extract from a Poor Law Act, c.1795. PA242/10/21..
Reference to "Workhouse Close", Kenilworth, 1807. PA242/11/14.
Commital to Warwick House of Correction for not working at Meriden Workhouse, 1821. PA295/14/1.
Lunatic too dangerous to keep at Meriden Workhouse, 1836. PA295/22/3,4.
Allesley overseers' papers, 1651 - 1859. PA295/24-65.
Distress-warrant for withholding poor-rate. 1829. PA295/25.
List of Allesley overseers, 1773 - 1862. PA295/28/3.
List of Allesley poor-levies, 1772ff. PA295/29/4.
List of Allesley overseers, 1757-85. PA295/29/5.
List of Meriden Union parishes, early nineteenth century. PA295/29/8.
Allesley overseers signed indemnity-bonds against paupers' becoming chargeable to that parish, 1677 - 173:. PA205/30 passim.
Overseers elsewhere signed settlement-certificates for people not settled at Allesley, 1675 - 1784. PA295/31 passim.
Settlement-certificates for people settled at Allesley, 1733-95. PA295/32.
Settlement-examinations (Allesley), 1736 - 1843. PA295/33.
Master of Warwick Union Workhouse gave evidence about settlement of Sarah Sparrow of Bubbenhall, Warwickshire, 1843. PA295/33/93.
Letters about settlement, 1730 - 1827. PA295/34.
Copy of letter to clerk to directors of the poor, Coventry, 1803. PA295/34/2.
Letter from Towns Office, Birmingham Workhouse, 1814. PA295/34/3.
Removal-orders which overseers signed, 1836-50. PA295/36-38.
Paupers' passes, 1774-95. PA295/39.
Removal orders (to Allesley), 1718 - 1859. PA295/40.
Examination of master of Foleshill Workhouse over a pauper's removal, 1843. PA295/40/83.
Copy of certificate of chargeability for Meriden Board of Guardians, 1845. PA295/40/87.
Removal orders (from Allesley), 1701 - 1850. PA295/41.
Removal order (not Allesley), 1830. PA295/42.
Confirmations of removal orders, 1691 - 1740. PA295/43.
Partial confirmation of removal order, 1772. PA295/44.
Quashings of removal orders, 1730-58. PA295/45.
Settlement bills, 1784 - 1844. PA295/46.
Allesley parish apprenticeship register, 1805-32. PA295/47.
Allesley parish apprenticeship indentures, 1651 - 1859. PA295/48.
List of apprenticeship subscribers [,1859]. PA295/49.
Notices of intention to apprentice paupers, 1823-32. PA295/50.
Notice of intention to apprentice paupers, with memorandum of service by governor of Meriden House of Industry, 1823: PA295/50/1.
Certificates as to potential masters' suitability to take pauper apprentices, 1823-27. PA295/51.
Allesley parish officers' indemnity-bonds for apprentices, 1707-31. PA295/52.
Allesley parish collection (militia), 1782. PA295/53.
Allesley affiliation-order book, 1809-39. PA295/54.
Allesley bastardy examinations, 1750 - 1825. PA295/55.
Birth of bastard at Meriden Workhouse, 1817. PA295/55/11.
Affiliation orders (Allesley), 1780 - 1832. PA295/56.
Opinion about jurisdiction of affiliation-order, 1822. PA295/57.
Confirmations of affiliation-orders, 1822-23. PA295/58.
Allesley bastardy-bonds, 1702 - 1823. PA295/59.
Allesley maintenance documents, 1706 - 1832. PA295/60.
Miscellaneous overseers' items, 1700 - 1835. PA295/61-65.
Poor Law Union documents for Allesley, 1836-47. PA295/66-69.
Foleshill Guardians' poor-rate returns, 1920-34. PA321.
Son of keeper of Coventry House of Industry was apprenticed to silkmen, 1811. PA324/26.
Katherine Bayley's School poor rate receipts, 1853-88. PA368/55/7-8; PA368/56/9-10; PA368/57/6-7; PA368/58/8-9; PA368/59/5-7; PA368/60/5-6; PA368/61/6-8; PA368/62/9-10; PA368/63/7-8; PA368/64/12; PA368/65/8-10; PA368/66/7; PA368/67/7-8; PA368/68/10-12; PA368/69/6-7; PA368/70/7-8; PA368/71/3; PA368/762/5-6; PA368/73/5-7; PA369/74/5; PA368/75/5-6; PA368/76/4-5; PA368/77/5-6; PA368/78/4-5; PA368/79/5-6; PA368/80/5-6; PA368/80/5-6; PA368/81/5-6; PA3678/82/5-6; PA368/83/5-6; PA368/84/4-5; PA368/85/4; PA368/86/4-5; PA368/87/4-5.
Foleshill Union Workhouse Punishment Book, 1864 - 1900. PA380/1.
Apprenticeship indenture for Stoke pauper, 1794. PA382/14.
Clerk to the Coventry Guardians had Stoke land, 1904-11. PA242/3/14.IX,XII,XIIII.
Clerk to the Coventry Guardians was a Freemen's trustee, 1907ff. PA242/3/29.X.
Stoke Vestry Minute Book, 1820-35. PA133/1.
Saint Michael's Parish Poor Law Rate Books, etc., 1732 - 1830. PA143/1-48.
Minutes of the Guardians and Directors of the Poor for the United Parishes of Saint Michael and Holy Trinity, 1801-61: PA144/1.
Directions about removal of paupers from Coventry to Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, mid eighteenth century. PA146/1.
Autobiography of E.J. Pollard, late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. PA182.
Conveyance of Hill Street workhouse, 1753. PA183/2.
Justices' of the Peace apprenticing and assignment of pauper to a weaver, 1828-43. PA196/1,2.
Notes on local history from newspaper, 1869. PA919/36/10.
Holy Trinity overseers were involved with parish workhouse (site-deeds), 1726-97. PA173/1-11.
Subsequent history of workhouse building, and copy of Coventry United Parishes Act (1801) to 1869. PA173/122-33.
Settlement-certificate of Frances Eborn of Berkswell, Warwickshire, 1699. PA5/1.
Letter about directors' rating-petition, 1817. PA14/5/11.
Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) affected justices' clerks' fees. PA14/6/148.
Smallwood's trial, 1834. PA14/6/149.
Elizabethan poor law usage, 1818. PA14/6/155.
New valuations mentioned, 1837. PA14/7/1.
Leet Book extract about poor strangers' finding securities (1588), c.1840. PA21/2/11.
Bastardy bond for Thomas Jones of Coventry, 1672. PA17/44.
Settlement order for Benjamin Bosnell of Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire, 1731. PA17/45.
Stoke pauper's house transferred to parish, 1726. PA17/46.
Kenilworth pauper's apprenticeship indenture (1792) and discharge (1795). PA17/47/1,2.
Pauper apprenticed to a confectioner, 1805ff. PA17/49.
Indemnity bonds, 1639-75. PA17/79/1-6.
Removal of paupers, etc., 1740 (voucher). PA17/80/2.
Coventry corporation appeal against Saint Michael's and Saint John's parishes' poor-rate assessment, 1804: PA17/81/1.
Rating assessments, 1819-35. PA17/81/3.
Holy Trinity parish guardians, 1807. PA17/98.
Duplicate statement for overseers of Irby-Hopkins estate, Foleshill, 1896. PA279/4/5.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Allesley parish, 1881 - 1925. PA279/17/16-21; PA279/18/54,55; PA279/19/114; PA279/30/35; PA279/21/36,37; PA279/22/30-32; PA279/24/43; PA279/25/65,66; PA279/26/71,72; PA279/27/39,40; PA279/28/46,47; PA279/29/53,54; PA279/30/52,53; PA279/31/46,47; PA279/32/35,36; PA279/33/41,42; PA279/34/44,45; PA279/35/51,52; PA279/36/44,45; PA279/37/43,44; PA279/38/33; PA279/39/29,30; PA279/40/35,36; PA279/41/7; PA279/42/32,33; PA279/44/1326, 1330, 1341, 1524, 1614, 1723, 3266, 3268, 3688, 3690, 4028, 4031, 4373, 4381, 4422, 4654, 5863, 5866, 7087, 7697, 7699, 7825, 7987, 8199, 8202, 8322, 8326, 8614, 8835, 8841, 9097, 9100, 9324, 9463, 9795.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Bradnocks Marsh, Berkswell parish, Warwickshire, 1890 - 1925. PA279/18/80; PA279/19/85,86; PA279/30/33,34; PA279/21/32-34,68; PA279/22/29; PA279/23/34; PA279/24/41,42; PA279/25/63,64; PA279/26/69,70; PA279/27/37,38; PA279/28/44,45; PA2798/29/51,52; PA279/30/50,51; PA279/31/44,45; PA279/32/33,34; PA279/33/39,40; PA279/34/42,43; PA279/35/49,50; PA279/36/42,43; PA279/37/45,46; PA279/38/37; PA279/39/34,35; PA279/40/37,38; PA279/41/8. PA279/42/34,35; PA279/44/4425,4681,4981,5214,5224,5653,12470.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Bishopgate Green (Holy Trinity parish) (general), 1868 - 1925. PA279/19/75,120; PA279/20/32; PA279/24/36,37; PA279/25/61,62; PA279/26/65,66; PA279/27/32,41; PA279/28/38,39; PA279/29/46,47; PA279/30/46,47; PA279/31/39,48,49; PA279/32/37,38; PA279/33/43,44; PA279/34/46; PA279/35/53,54; PA279/40/32; PA279/41/6; PA279/42/28-31; PA279/44/98, 140, 207, 214, 261, 308, 310, 347, 406, 408, 438, 439, 469, 505, 576, 631, 634, 691, 780, 786, 822, 823, 847, 882, 890.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Foleshill (general), 1882 - 1909. PA279/44/1619,1723,4069,4741,6205,6247,9466.
Irby-Hopkins eatate: Foleshill - poor-rate return of tenants, 1893. PA279/10/563.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Shortley (general), 1868 - 1923. PA279/17/22; PA279/18/67; PA279/19/70,71; PA279/20/31; PA279/21/42-44; PA279/22/35,36; PA279/24/36,38; PA279/25/61,62; PA279/26/65,66; PA279/27/32,41; PA279/28/38,39; PA279/29/46,47; PA279/30/46,47; PA279/31/39,48,49; PA279/32/37,38; PA279/33/43,44; PA279/34/46, PA279/35/53,54; PA279/40/32; PA279/41/6; PA279/44/32,322,826,1077,1090,1093,1876,2242,2254.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Taplow, Buckinghamshire, 1888 - 1923. PA279/48/3-5; PA279/49/5-8; PA279/51/3; PA279/52/3,4; PA279/53/2,3; PA279/54/4,5; PA279/55/3,4; PA279/56/33,4; PA279/57/3,4; PA279/58/2,3; PA279/59/8.9; PA279/60/5,6; PA279/61/9,10; PA279/62/3,4; PA279/63/3,4; PA279/64/4,5; PA279/65/7,8; PA279/66/5,6.
Irby-Hopkins estate (general), 1913. PA279/10/1154.
Irby-Hopkins estate Ash Grove, Stoney Stanton Road, 1905-25. PA279/10/1316; PA279/27/75; PA279/28/85-87; PA279/29/91,92; PA279/30/89,90; PA279/31/86,87; PA279/32/71,72; PA279/33/79,80; PA279/34/73,74; PA279/36/73,74; PA279/37/70,71; PA279/38/61,62; PA279/39/60,61; PA279/40/63,64; PA279/41/14; PA279/42/58,59; PA279/44/11882.
Thomas Dewes, solicitor, clerk to Foleshill Union, 1875. PA279/44/674.
Irby-Hopkins estate: "Grove House", Coundon, 1906-11. PA279/28/112-115; PA279/29/106,107; PA279/30/125; PA279/31/127,128; PA279/32/98; PA279/33/108-111; PA279/34/120-123; PA279/44/8989-8991,9582,10303,10309.
Irby-Hopkins estate: "Brickfield Cottage", Stoney Stanton Road, 1913-15. PA279/36/65,66; PA279/37/64; PA279/44/11882.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Hawkesbury (W. Whitehall), 1881. PA279/44/1293.
Irby family's involvement in Foleshill and Coventry guardians' elections, 1881-91: PA279/44/1301,3023,3306,3527,3617,3625,4069,4094,5019.
Irby-Hopkins estate: Broad Lane, 1881. PA279/44/1326.
Manor House Farm, Bell Green, 1882 - 1914. PA279/44/1747,1752,1931,2115,2425,11662.
B. Wilkins & Co., brickworks, Holy Trinity and Foleshill parishes, 1883. PA279/44/2127.
J. Everall's Shortley land, 1884. PA279/44/2242.
J. Hough's Shortley land, 1898. PA279/44/6991,6994.
J. Rogers' Shortley land, 1884-85. PA279/44/2580,2585,2591.
Hawkes End Wood, 1891. PA279/44/5031.
Allotments, WIndmill Lane, 1913. PA279/44/11235.
Taplow parish, Buckinghamshire poor rate vouchers, 1888 - 1923. PA279/48/3,4; PA279/49/5-7; PA279/51/3,4; PA279/52/3,4; PA279/53/2,3; PA279/54/4,5; PA279/55/3,4; PA279/56/3,4; PA279/57/3,4; PA279/58/2,3; PA279/59/8,9; PA279/60/5,6; PA279/61/9,10; PA279/62/3,4; PA279/63/3,4; PA279/64/4,5; PA279/65/7,8; PA279/66/5,6.
Hitcham parish, Buckinghamshire poor rate vouchers, 1888 - 1923; PA279/48/6,7; PA279/49/9-11; PA279/51/8,9; PA279/52/3,4; PA279/53/2,3; PA279/54/4,5; PA279/55/3,4; PA279/56/3,4; PA279/57/3,4; PA279/58/2,3; PA279/59/8,9; PA279/60/5,6; PA279/61/9,10; PA279/62/3,4; PA279/63/3,4; PA279/64/4,5; PA279/65/5,6; PA279/66/3,4.
"Beechwood Bungalow", Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, poor rate vouchers, 1922-23. PA279/66/27,28.
Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, Ireland was interested in Hill Street, Coventry messuages, 1840-46. PA184/4/2-3,5.
Settlement certificates made to Coventry city parishes, 1701-41 PA214/1/14,53; PA214/2/2-23.
Indemnity bond, Bulkington, Warwickshire to Saint Michael's parish, Coventry, 1696. PA214/2/1.
Coventry Union Lying-In Charity report, 1849. PA220/4.
Order to search for strangers without settlement, 1731. PA244/46/2.
Copy case on behalf of Radford's contracting out of Holy Trinity parish system, 1812. PA244/67.
Whitmore Park rate deemed high, early nineteenth century. PA257/1/1,2: PA284/1.
Letter about exemption of Radford from contributions to Holy Trinity parish, 1813. PA257/6.
Letters to matron of House of Industry, 1819. PA298/1/1,2.
Charles Holt senior, relieving-officer, had a share in the "Graziers' Arms", Well Street, 1856. BA/A/G/19/5.
Tithe dispute: John Woodcock versus Saint Michael's and Saint John's Parish Officers and Coventry Corporation, 1830-31. BA/B/F/31.
House-rent to increase after tenant ceases to be master of the House of Correction, 1632. BA/B/P/75/2.
Gift to Meriden house of industry, 1793. BA/D/K/11/1.
Borough archive Quarter Sessions fonds material, 1659 - 1838. BA/E/B/50-66.
Commital to House of Correction, eighteenth century. BA/E/B/123; BA/E/B/124.
Directors' recommendation for a constableship, 1833. BA/E/F/6/1.
Borough archive admninistrative fonds, 1575 - 1831. BA/H/I.
Removal orders in specimens of corporation business, 1588 - 1772. BA/H/Q/F8/1.
Removal order, 1732. BA/H/Q/F20/7/12.
Settlement-letters, 1825. BA/L/O/16/1-3.
Master of London Road Institution was a freemason, 1932. PA403/94/12.
Probate copy (1880) of will (1842) of William Royle, agent to the directors of the Coventry poor. PA436/16/1.
T.F. Tickner, relieving-officer, had a Bedlam Lane messuage, 1879. PA466/4/2 p.342.
John Powell's apprenticeship indenture, 1755. PA470/1 fol. 1.
Coventry Board of Guardians papers, 1894 - 1925. PA476.
Saint Michael's parish workhouse was in Fleet Street, 1769. PA54/21/1.
Former Saint Michael's parish workhouse, Fleet Street, 1814. PA54/21/3.
Poor rate vouchers, Fillongley, Warwickshire, 1800-52. PA54/86/12,17,32,37,59; PA54/87/8,38; PA54/88/21,41; PA54/89/29,30; PA54/90/15; PA54/91/1,18,62; PA54/92/4.40; PA54/93/10; PA54/94/6,13,27; PA54/95/3,26,55; PA54/96/58; PA54/97/28; PA54/98/41,56; PA54/99/33,54,75,90,109,127; PA54/100/4,13,21,22; PA54/101/36,46,48; PAA54/102/5,10,17,33,42. PA54/103/12; PA54/104/8,13,23,24; PA54/105/10,27; PA54/106/19,30; PA54/107/9,22; PA54/108/44,75; PA54/109/17,32; PA54/110/18,33; PA54/111/9,19,21; PA54/112/19,35,37; PA54/113/15,39; PA54/114/14,21,38; PA54/115/15,25; PA54/116/15,26; PA54/117/2,16,21,29; PA54/118/16,23,36; PA54/119/35,54,56; PA54/120/10,20,27; PA54/121/4,12,19; PA54/122/2,4,19; PA54/123/12,15,16,19; PA54/124/1,2; PA54/125/4,12; PA54/126/4,6,17,25; PA54/127/1,3; PA54/128/1,4,6,17,28,34; PA54/129/8,10; PA54/130/1,5,6,25,29; PA54/131/2,4,18; PAA54/132/7,29,33; PA54/132/2,6,19,25.
Poor rate vouchers, 1868-78. PA506/11/74-76; PA506/203/8-14; PA506/204/6-10; PA54/205/208/8-19; PA54/209/10-13.
Poor rate vouchers, 1841-49. PA571/7-11.
Blue Coat School rate demands, 1929. PA575/40/17-20.
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