Bromyard Workhouse Database, 1840

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this dataset is to investigate the time spent in a workhouse by inmates.

Main Topics:

Poor law. Workhouse admissions and discharges; date admitted; date discharged; length of time spent in workhouse. Inmate name; age; parish responsible for pauper; occupation; illegitimacy; marital status; able bodied or disabled; financial support from a charity; reason for entering workhouse; cleanliness; religion; person responsible for admitting or discharging pauper (board of guardians, overseers of the poor, relieving officer, master); date of entry in register; pauper classification; behaviour whilst in workhouse; other information.

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3040-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=38ee3361742610d0c1abac1e0ddc741ae5365d6dc80af0bc6c9d382cc347defe
Provenance
Creator Crompton, F., Worcester College of Higher Education
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1995
Rights Copyright F. Crompton; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Text; Numeric
Discipline History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Herefordshire; England