Libraries and leisure

Holdings

In addition to the board of minutes for each union (which are often indexed) these include:

Barnet Union workhouse master's report 1852-63 (BG/BAR 78-82); workhouse diary 1836-8 (70876: extracts from this were published in Kingsford, P & Jones, A; Down and out in Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Publications, 1984);register of paupers for whom places in service provided 1836-79 (BG/BAR 83); register of non-resident poor 1920-30 (BG/BAR 76); register of removal orders 1925-9 (BG/BAR 77)

Hatfield Union workhouse admission and discharge registers 1836-1918 (BG HAT/41-54); registers of births in the workhouse 1847-1910 (BG/HAT 55-56); register of deaths in the workhouse 1846-1910 (BG/HAT 57-58); creed registers 1886-1915 (BG/HAT/60-61)

Hertford Union workhouse admission and discharge registers 1873-1916 (BG/HER 27-38); register of births in the workhouse 1847-1918 (BG/HER 39); register of deaths in the workhouse 1847-1919 (BG/HER 40-42); applications for outdoor relief 1876-85 (BG/HER 45-47)

Hitchin Union settlement examinations 1854-60 (BG/HIT 105); removal orders 1869-95 (BG/HIT 219); outdoor relief register 1836 (BG/HIT 109); applications for outdoor relief 1894-1907 (BG/HIT 110-111, 120)

Royston Union register of births in the workhouse 1866-1929 (BG/ROY 31); register of deaths in the workhouse 1866-1915 (BG/ROY 32)

St Albans Union workhouse admission and discharge registers 1835-54; 1900-31 (OFF ACC 1162); register of births in the workhouse 1871-1952 (OFF ACC 1162); register of deaths in the workhouse 1905-1958 (OFF ACC 1162)

Ware Union removal orders 1879-1927 (BG/WAR 55); workhouse admission and discharge registers 1879-1921 (BG/WAR 77-78, 109-114); register of births in the workhouse 1905-14 (BG/WAR 79); register of inmates 1890-1940 (HSS3/5/94); creed registers 1919-1956 (HSS/3/5/97-98); register of non-settled and non-resident poor 1921-6 (BG/WAR 51); applications for outdoor relief, 1925-30 (BG/WAR 104-108); registers of inmates 1917-50 (OFF ACC 1124); admission and discharge registers: Western House "casuals" 1939-49 (OFF ACC 1184)

Watford Union baptisms at Shrodells (workhouse) 1917-35 (D/P117C/1/8); register of children May 1903-May 1938 (HSS8/16/1) records at Watford Museum: register of births in the workhouse 1866-1933; register of deaths 1948-58; punishment book 1914-43

Welwyn Union workhouse admission register 1910-21(BG/WEL 16); register of births in the workhouse 1909-16 (BG/WEL 17); registers of deaths in the workhouse 1907-21 (BG/WEL 18-19); creed register 1893-1921 (BG/WEL 20)