Peterborough Union - Workhouse Births 1836-1910; Apprentices 1869-1910

A transcription of the surviving birth registers of the Peterborough Union for the years 1836-1910 and a number of apprenticeship indentures for young persons placed out by the Guardians 1869-1910.  Also included are several applications made by the Relieving Officer for an Order of Detention of a Lunatic in the Workhouse between 1903 and 1910.  The Peterborough Poor Law Union was formed on 3rd December 1835 and comprised the parishes of Borough Fen, Castor (including Ailesworth), Etton, Eye, Glinton, Helpstone, Marholm, Maxey (including Deeping Gate), Newborough, Northborough, Paston (including Gunthorpe, Walton and Werrington), Peakirk, Peterborough (Minster Close Precincts and St. John the Baptist), Sutton and Upton [all Northamptonshire], Alwalton, Caldecote, Chesterton, Denton, Farcett, Fletton, Folksworth, Glatton, Haddon, Holme, Morborn, Overton Longville, Overton Waterville, Stilton, Washingley, Water Newton, Woodstone and Yaxley [all Huntingdonshire], Crowland or Croyland [Lincolnshire], Thorney [Cambridgeshire] and Standground [Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire].