Solihull, Warwickshire Poor Law Union

Constituent Parishes
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire Barston, Warwickshire Elmdon, Warwickshire Knowle, Warwickshire Lapworth, Warwickshire Packwood, Warwickshire Shirley, Warwickshire Solihull, Warwickshire Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire Tanworth Salter's Street, Warwickshire Temple Balsall, Warwickshire Yardley, Worcestershire Yardley Wood, Worcestershire

Records

 * Warwickshire County Record Office, Priory Park, Cape Road, Warwick CV34 4JS. Few records survive. Holdings include: Guardians' minute books (1836-1930); Accounts (1839-1930)
 * ReferenceCR0139 SOLIHULL: POOR RELIEF, DISTRAINT, TITHE AND ESTATE RECORDS Description Papers relating to workhouse, Estate Agents catalogue and maps, tithe tenants' book for Solihull and Birmingham Date 1741-1834

Parish chest and poor law records for Solihull, 1525-1860 Microfilm of original records at the Warwickshrie County Record Office, Warwick.Contains records of the Bird and Ludlow families of Solihull, Warwick, England.

Orders and accounts, 1735-1808. FS Library BRITISH Film 568511 Other church records, 1596-1828; 2 transcripts of family registers, 1860. FS Library BRITISH Film 568512 Bailiffs account books, 1525-1813. FS Library BRITISH Film 234509 Account books, 1680-1910. FS Library BRITISH Film 234510 Overseers account book, 1690-1742; Constables books, 1701-1805. FS Library BRITISH Film 234511 Minute book, 1788-1808. FS Library BRITISH Film 234512

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?Solihull/Solihull.shtml