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Find your ancestors in Yorkshire, Sheffield social and institutional records 1558-1939
Records in this collection
- Britain, Executions 1606-1955
- Bury Union Workhouse (Jericho Institution) Admission Registers
- Bury Workhouse Creed Registers
- Bury Workhouse Discharge Registers
- Chertsey Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Books post-1900
- Chertsey Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Books pre-1900
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Baptisms)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Births)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Burials)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Deaths)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records, Admissions and Discharges
- Cheshire Workhouse Records, Religious Creeds
- City of York calendars of prisoners 1739-1851
- City of York hearth & window tax 1665-1778
- Cobham, Reed’s School Annual Reports 1818-1901
- Derbyshire hospital admissions and deaths 1892-1913
- Derbyshire hospital admissions and deaths 1892-1913
- Derbyshire Workhouse Reports
- Devon, Plymouth Prison Records 1832-1919
- Devon, Tavistock Borough Court Luxton Manuscripts, 1839-1896
- Dorking Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1837-1847
- England & Wales, paupers in workhouses 1860
- England and Wales, Crime, Prisons and Punishment 1770-1935
- Farnham Board of Guardians Minute Books 1872-1910
- Godstone Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1869-1915
- Guildford Infirmary Deaths 1933-1939
- Guildford Workhouse Births 1866-1910
- Guildford Workhouse Deaths 1887-1914
- Hambledon Board of Guardians Minute Books 1836-1910
- Hampshire, Portsmouth Hospital Records
- Hampshire, Portsmouth Workhouse Registers
- Hampshire, Portsmouth, Portsea Island Rate Books
- Ireland, Licences to Keep Arms 1832-1836
- Ireland, Ulster Covenant 1912
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Annuities
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Deaths
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Marriages
- Kent, Bexley Asylum Minute Books, 1901-1939
- Lancashire, Manchester cholera victims 1832
- Lincolnshire Poor Law Removals 1665 - 1865
- Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates 1675 - 1860
- Lincolnshire Settlement Examinations 1721 - 1861
- Lincolnshire, Workhouse Guardians' Minutes
- Liverpool Workhouse Registers
- London, Bethlem Hospital Patient Admission Registers and Casebooks 1683-1932
- Mayford Industrial School Admissions 1895-1907
- Middlesex, Harrow School photographs of pupils & masters 1869-1925
- Middlesex, London, Old Bailey Court records 1674-1913
- National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914
- Princess Mary Village Homes Pupils 1870-1890s
- Prison ship (Hulk) Registers 1811-1843
- Redhill, Royal Philanthropic School Admission Registers 1788-1906
- Richmond Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1870-1911
- Roxburghshire, Kelso Dispensary Patient Registers 1777-1781
- Scotland prison registers index 1828-1884
- Scotland, Buchanan Society Members 1725-1948
- Scotland, Edinburgh Temperance Pledges 1886-1908
- Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), poorhouse records 1859-1912
- South Yorkshire Asylum, Admission Records
- Surrey County Gaol Deaths 1798-1878
- Surrey feet of fines 1558-1760
- Surrey feet of fines place list
- Surrey Quarter Sessions 1780 -1820
- Surrey, Southwark, St Saviour Poor Relief 1818-1821
- Warlingham Military Hospital Chaplain's Department baptisms, confirmations and deaths 1917-1919
- Warwickshire bastardy index
- Warwickshire, Coventry workhouse admission and discharge registers 1853-1946
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Vehicle Registration Plates (1921-1944)
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Vehicle Registrations 1921-1944
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Admissions
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Apprentices
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Bastardy
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Examinations
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Land tax
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Paupers
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Poor law and workhouse records
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Valuations
- Wiltshire Asylum Registers, 1789-1921
- Woking, St Peter’s Memorial Home Patients 1885-1908
- Women’s Suffrage Petition 1866
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts and Convicts 1737-1938
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts And Convicts 1769-1931
- Yorkshire, Sheffield social and institutional records 1558-1939
- Yorkshire, Sheffield, asylum & hospital admissions & subscriptions 1748-1937
- Yorkshire, Sheffield, Workhouse Admissions 1700-1915
Each record comprises a transcription from original images.
The amount of information listed varies, but the records may include the following information about your ancestor:
- Name
- Age
- Birth year
- Place
- Occupation
- Event year
- Document reference
- Document title
- Category
Discover more about these records
These transcriptions are all taken from original documents held by Sheffield Archives and Local Studies and cover many different types of events. Specifically, we publish the following collections in this single dataset:
- Bradfield Lent Book, 1558
- Apprentices, 1676-1833
- Settlement certificates, 1700-1810
- Removal orders, 1701-1844
- Sheffield Highways assessment, 1711
- List of papist estates, 1715
- Whiston indentures, 1728-1738
- Slaughterhouse agreement, 1750-1780
- List of paupers, 1751-1808
- Sketchley’s Sheffield Directory, 1774
- List of Tontine Inn subscribers, 1785
- Gales & Martin’s Directory of Sheffield, 1787
- List of subscribers to new Coffee House, 1795
- Corn loan guarantors, 1795
- Sheffield in 1797
- J. Robinson's Directory of Sheffield, 1797
- Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse, register of inmates, 1812-1915
- Petition of the Catholic inhabitants of Sheffield, 1815
- Society for bettering the conditions of the Poor in Sheffield, appeal for funds, 1818
- Bradfield Workhouse admissions and discharges, 1818-1849
- Sheffield & Rotherham banks resolution, 1825
- List of Members of Bradfield Game Association, 1838
- List of able poor, 1843
- Ecclesall National School exam schedule, 1844-1890
- Sheffield, Nether Chapel Membership list, 1845
- Deakin Institution annual report, 1863
- Sheffield flood, list of dead and missing, 1864
- Deakin Institution list of governors, 1867
- Sheffield & Rotherham Red Book & Almanac, 1870-1885
- Cemetery Rd Congregational Church subscriber, 1873
- Dungworth School, Sheffield, exam schedule, 1876-1895
- List of pupil teachers, 1877-1881
- Register of canal boats, 1878-1924
- Vickers Ltd training record, 1911-1930
- Sheffield Sunday School, Band of Hope programme, 1912
- Upton Colliery signing-in book, 1936-1939
There is a lot of information here, with the workhouse collections taking up the lion’s share, and some inmates appearing on multiple pages.
Each record also provides a link back to Sheffield Archives and Local Studies so that you can enquire about obtaining copies of the original images.