Braintree, Essex Poor Law Union

Constituent Parishes
Black Notley, Essex Bocking, Essex Bradwell by Coggeshall, Essex Braintree, Essex Cornish Hall End, Essex Cressing, Essexx Finchingfield, Essex Great Saling, Essex Panfield, Essex Pattiswick, Essex Rayne, Essex Shalford, Essex Stisted, Essex Wethersfield, Essex White Notley, Essex

Records
Essex Record Office, Wharf Road Chelmsford CM2 6YT. Holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1835-1930); Admissions and discharges (1883-88, 1891-4, 1897-8,


 * Creed Registers reference G/BR/23-25 1890-1939
 * Admission and discharge registers for Casuals reference G/Br/1-14 1916-1938

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Records of St. Michael's Hospital (formerly known as the BRAINTREE Union WORKHOUSE and as the BRAINTREE Public Assistance Institution); of the BRAINTREE Area house and staff welfare committees; and of the BRAINTREE and Dunmow dispensaries - see detailed list supplied

1866-1975


 * Due to sensitivity of some records some documents will be withheld from public use until 2044 e.g. the offences and punishment books and registers of mechanical restraint and medical officers books

Websites
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Braintree/Braintree.shtml Peter Higginbotham’s Workhouses site for maps and images of the Union.