Ampthill Union Miscellany [Download .PDF File]

This file contains a miscellany of records relating to the Ampthill Poor Law Union.  These include a register of births in the workhouse between 1847 and 1913, a record of punishments in the workhouse between 1853 and 1863, a number of apprenticeship indentures for various dates between 1862 and 1914 and more than 70 removal orders and settlement examinations relating to persons who were returned to the Ampthill Union from elsewhere between 1830 and 1914.  The Ampthill Poor Law Union was formed on 10th April 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Ampthill, Clophill, Cranfield, Flitton, Flitwick, Hawnes or Haynes, Higham Gobion, Houghton Conquest, Lidlington, Lower Gravenhurst, Marston Mortaine, Maulden, Millbrook, Pulloxhill, Shitlington, Silsoe, Steppingley, Upper Gravenhurst and Westoning [all Bedfordshire].  In 1899 the Union was enlarged by the addition of Aspley Guise, Battlesden, Eversholt, Harlington, Holcot, Husborne Crawley, Milton Bryant, Potsgrove, Ridgmont, Salford, Tingrith, Toddington and Woburn [all Bedfordshire] from the adjacent Woburn Poor Law Union which had been dissolved.

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