Warrington, Lancashire Poor Law Union

History
Early workhouses at Warrington 1728 (Church Street) Cuerdley (50), and at Great Sankey (45). Existed by 1777 when a Paliamentary report mentioned them. A workhouse was opened at Poulton with Fearnhead in around 1740. Newton-le-Willows had a workhouse on Bridge Street. Warrington Poor Law Union was formed on 2nd February, 1837 Constituent parishes included

Lancashire: Burton Wood, Lancashire, Cuerdley,  Golborne, Lancashire, Haydock;   Hollinfare, LancashireHoughton, Middletown and Arbury; Kenyon,  Newton in Mackerfield Newton in Makerfield, Lancashire, Penketh  Padgate, Lancashire, Poulton with Fearnhead, Rixton with Glazebrook, Great Sankey, Lancashire,  Croft with Southworth, Lancashire,  Warrington Christ Church, Lancashire Warrington Holy Trinity, Lancashire,Warrington St Elfin, Lancashire , Warrington St Paul, Lancashire Woolstone with Martinscrofts,  Winwick, Lancashire.

Cheshire:Grappenhall, Cheshire, Latchford, Cheshire Thelwall, Cheshire Later Addition: Little Sankey (from 1894).

Initially, the new Warrington Union took over existing township workhouses at Warrington and Newton-le-Willows.

For more information see The Workhouse, Warrington, Lancashire

Records

 * Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2RE. Few records survive — main holdings are Guardians' minutes (1837-1900).
 * Poor law records, 1783-1846 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Warrington Library, Warrington, Lancashire. Warrington Library no.: Mss. 200, 219-225

Poor Law records Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Warrington Library, Warrington, Lancashire. Warrington Library no.: Mss. 125-166, 774-778, 788-839, 844, 1039-1040.


 * Workhouse register, 1824-1829 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990


 * Account books, 1705-1798 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Warrington Library, Warrington. Contains 2 notebooks, in different handwriting, covering the periods 1705-1756 and 1761-1798. Besides accounts, they contain various names, recipes, and recipients of a charity. Warrington Library nos.: mss. 99-100.

Halton, Cheshire &amp; Warrington Lancashire


 * Warrington Rate books and valuation lists, 1846-1885 publications: Wakefield, Yorkshire : Micro Methods, 1993 Microfilm copy of original at the Warrington Library, Warrington, Cheshire.

Websites
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Warrington/Warrington.shtml Peter Higginbotham site contains images, maps and history of the Union