Oldham Poor Law Union

The constituent parishes were:

Birch in Hopwood, Lancashire Genealogy  Tonge cum Alkrington, Lancashire Genealogy,  Chadderton St Matthew, Lancashire Genealogy Chadderton St John, Lancashire Genealogy, Coldhurst, Lancashire Genealogy , East Crompton, Lancashire Genealogy ,  Glodwick, Lancashire Genealogy  , Hollinwood, Lancashire Genealogy , Leesfield, Lancashire Genealogy, Middleton, Lancashire,   Oldham St Mary, Lancashire Genealogy,  Oldham St James, Lancashire Genealogy ,Oldham St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy , Royton, Lancashire Genealogy,    Shaw Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy ,Thornham , Tonge, Waterhead, Lancashire Genealogy ,Werneth, Lancashire Genealogy
Later Additions Great Lever, Lancashire Genealogy

(from 1894):  Littleborough, Lancashire Genealogy,  Milnrow, Lancashire Genealogy, Norden , Oldham,  Whitworth, Lancashire Genealogy.

Records

• Oldham Local Studies and Archives, 84 Union Street, Oldham, OL1 1DN. Extensive holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1837-1930); Births (1847-1931); Deaths (1887-94, 1917-47); Creed registers (1891-1946, with gaps); Children received and detained in the workhouse (1910-41); etc.

Workhouse registers of births and deaths, 1847-1922 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Central Library, Oldham. Oldham Central Library: PUO/12/2/1-2, 3/1 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990

Content	Film
Births, 1847-1922 Deaths, 1887-1894	FHL BRITISH Film 1655907 Items 1-3

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?Oldham/Oldham.shtml

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