Dundee Poorhouse Records - FDCA
The Friends of Dundee City Archives have created a very useful resource of the story of the two Dundee poorhouses of the 19th Century - The Dundee East Poor house and the Liff and …
Dundee East Poorhouse - FDCA
Groups of wandering poor, unemployed artisans and labourers roamed Scotland seeking or demanding relief. They begged and intimidated inhabitants for money or resorted to crime to …
The Workhouse in Dundee, Angus (Forfarshire)
THE DUNDEE POOR-HOUSE. The new Poor-house is situated in an open healthy part of the town, at the back of Stobswell Feus, on the Craigie property, to the north of the Lunatic Asylum.
Scottish Poor Relief and Poorhouse Records - workhouses
Some indexes or transcriptions of poor relief records are viewable online, a good example being the indexes to the Liff and Benvie Register of the Poor and the Dundee East Poorhouse …
Dundee's Poorhouses - wightonfamily.ca
Above left, Dundee's East Poorhouse; above right, Dundee's West Poorhouse. Between 1845 and 1930, over 70 poorhouses were constructed in Scotland. They were built following the Poor …
The Workhouse in Dundee, Angus (Forfarshire)
There is in Lochee a model lodging-house for the destitute poor — a place famed all over Scotland. Its inmates are maintained at a cheaper rate than those of any rival establishment; …
In 1845 the Poor Law (Scotland) Act set up Parochial Boards to administer Poor Relief in a better, more efficient way. In 1856 The Dundee Parochial Board opened a Poorhouse—later known …
Dundee_Poor_Register - FDCA
The Dundee East Poorhouse register records paupers granted indoor relief, i.e. admitted to the poorhouse because they were ill, aged, or otherwise unable to support themselves, or …
Dundee Poorhouses - DD TOURS
Oct 30, 2014 · The purpose of the Board was to provide “generous, adequate and regular relief” to the poor, whilst still excluding able-bodied unemployed. On 4 November 1852 the Parochial …
Dundee, Angus, Scotland Genealogy - FamilySearch
Dec 23, 2024 · The Friends of Dundee City Archives has created the following transcriptions for ancestral research: Dundee Poorhouse Records. Introduction & Establishment of the Dundee …