FULL TITLE: Lambeth Police Court Petty Sessions - Bastardy Cases 1845-1858.
A transcription of the annual bastardy returns from Lambeth Police Court Petty Sessions deposited with the Surrey Quarter Sessions. Each return gives the names of the mothers of bastard children applying, date of issue of summons, date of Petty Sessions hearing, result of the application and the names of the putative fathers in all cases in which orders are made.
FULL TITLE: Southwark Police Court Petty Sessions - Bastardy Cases 1844-1858.
A transcription of the annual bastardy returns from Southwark Police Court Petty Sessions deposited with the Surrey Quarter Sessions. Each return gives the names of the mothers of bastard children applying, date of issue of summons, date of Petty Sessions hearing, result of the application and the names of the putative fathers in all cases in which orders are made.
FULL TITLE: Wandsworth Division Petty Sessions - Bastardy Cases 1844-1857.
A transcription of the annual bastardy returns from Wandsworth Division Petty Sessions deposited with the Surrey Quarter Sessions. Each return gives the names of the mothers of bastard children applying, date of issue of summons, date of Petty Sessions hearing, result of the application and the names of the putative fathers in all cases in which orders are made.
FULL TITLE: Great Foster House Lunatic Asylum, Egham - Inmates 1774-1851.
This booklet contains extracts from the Visitors Books and the Patient Admission Book in which entries pertinent to Great Foster House are recorded in the period 1774 to 1851, noting admissions, discharges, deaths and various comments regarding conditions in the institution.
FULL TITLE: Windsor Union - Workhouse Deaths 1835-48 and 1867-88 and Paupers' Service Book 1877-1914.
This booklet contains a transcription of three records relating to the Windsor Union held at Berkshire Record Office - Register of Deaths for 1835-1848 and 1867-1888 and a Paupers' Service Book 1877-1914. Each entry in the Register of Deaths includes the date of death, name and age of the deceased, the parish to which he/she belonged, when and where buried and by whom and at whose expense. The Paupers' Service Book is a register of children placed in work or training between 1877 and 1914. The children, both boys and girls, were aged between eight and nineteen years. Although the majority of the children were engaged to serve local tradesmen and farmers some of the boys were placed on naval training ships, in military service or sent to serve the owners of fishing smacks in Great Grimsby and elsewhere. Between 1890 and 1906 around twenty children were sent to Canada. The Windsor Poor Law Union was formed on 7 September 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Clewer, New Windsor with Dedworth, Old Windsor and Sunninghill [all Berkshire] and Egham and Thorpe [both Surrey].