Tracing your poor ancestors : a guide for family historians
Raymond, Stuart A., 1945-2020
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Many people in the past - perhaps a majority - were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Raymond's handbook is the ideal guide to them. He examines the history of the poor and how they survived. Some were supported by charity. A few were lucky enough to live in an almshouse. Many had to depend on whatever the poor law overseers gave them. Others were forced into the Union workhouse. Some turned to a life of crime. Vagrants were whipped and poor children were apprenticed by the overseers or by a charity. Paupers living in the wrong place were forcibly 'removed' to their parish of settlement. Stuart Raymond describes them all: the records of charities, of the poor law overseers, of poor law unions, of Quarter Sessions, of bankruptcy, and of friendly societies.
Main title:
Tracing your poor ancestors : a guide for family historians / Stuart A. Raymond.
Author:
Raymond, Stuart A., 1945-, author
Imprint:
Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2020.
Collation:
196 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526742933 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
929.1929.1 RAYLOC 929.1
Local class:
K929.1 RAY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2226733