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EDMONTON PARISH


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1544

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: EDMONTON PARISH

Date(s): 1705-1770

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Parish officials were responsible for early forms of local government as well as administration of the church. In Edmonton, overseers of the poor were first mentioned in 1639. One overseer was appointed for each of the four wards. Parish vestry meetings had begun by 1739 and included a workhouse committee which comprised the trustees, the vicar, churchwardens, overseers and elected parishioners. The committee administered poor relief, providing money or goods to paupers. It appears that the poor were admitted to the workhouse as a last resort, while poor children were apprenticed.

Source of information: 'Edmonton: Local government', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 175-179 (available online).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to poor relief in the parish of Edmonton, 1705-1770, including examinations, warrants and removal orders.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents arranged in chronological order (ACC/1544/001-045).

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in May 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For further records relating to the Parish of Edmonton see DRO/040.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March to April 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Overseers of the poor | Local government personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Poor relief | Social welfare
Removal orders | Settlement records | Documents | Information sources
Settlement examinations | Settlement records | Documents | Information sources
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Warrants | Documents | Information sources
Meetings x Conferences
Primary documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Edmonton | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Enfield
London