Stockport Poor Law Union
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Title:
Stockport Poor Law Union
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Series from Fonds: Official Records
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Sub-fonds: Transferred Records
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Unrestricted
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General notes:
Stockport Union was a grouping of townships for poor relief purposes formed in 1837, in accordance with the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act (4 & 5 Will. 4 c76). Prior to this the individual townships in Stockport ancient parish (qv) had organised their own assessment and relief. They remained responsible for the cost of relieving their own poor after the creation of centralised administration and overseers’ records for individual townships, before or after 1837, have been listed under the townships. Townships in the Union were Bramhall; Bredbury; Brinnington; Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley, (later united as Cheadle); Etchells in Stockport; Handforth cum Bosden (later separated); Hyde; Marple; Norbury; Offerton; Romiley; Stockport; Torkington; Werneth (later Compstall); Heaton Norris and Reddish. The Union Assessment Committee was replaced by the Stockport and Hyde Assessment Committee in 1927 following the 1925 Rating and Valuation Act (15 & 16 Geo. 5 c90). The 1929 Local Government Act (19 & 20 Geo. 5 c17) abolished the Unions themselves, the responsibility passing to the appropriate local authority.
Language:
English
Record number:
6925641
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