Brackley Union Miscellany - Volume Two

This volume contains a transcription of some of the surviving records created by the Brackley Poor Law Union including correspondence between the Guardians of the Brackley Union and the Poor Law Board regarding the emigration of paupers to Quebec in 1853, and Lunatics Chargeable to Brackley Union in 1896, 1897 and 1904.  Also included in this volume is a Pauper Description Book for the year 1839.  This document lists those persons from Division Two of the Brackley Union who received relief during the year.  It includes the names of the paupers, their wives and dependent children, their year of birth, where resident and with whom, occupation, marital status (if adult) and if child whether orphan, deserted or bastard, the cause of seeking relief, the names etc. of relations distinguishing those apparently able to provide assistance and observations, details of deaths or removals etc. Division Two of the Brackley Union included the parishes of Aynho, Brackley St. James, Brackley St. Peter, Croughton, Evenley, Finmere, Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Kings Sutton, Mixbury, Newbottle, Steen, Turweston, Westbury and Whitfield. The Brackley Poor Law Union comprised the parishes of Astwell and Falcutt, Aynho, Brackley St. James, Brackley St. Peter, Croughton, Culworth, Evenley, Eydon, Farthinghoe, Greatworth, Helmdon, Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Kings Sutton, Marston St. Lawrence, Morton Pinkney, Newbottle, Radstone, Steen, Stuchbury, Sulgrave, Syresham, Thenford, Thorpe Mandeville and Whitfield [all Northamptonshire], the parishes of Finmere and Mixbury [both Oxfordshire] and the parishes of Biddlesden, Turweston and Westbury [all Buckinghamshire].