| Description | All board of guardian records are closed for 100 years from their terminal date.
Belfast Board of Guardians Minute Books:
BG/7/A/1 1842
BG/7/A/2 1843
BG/7/A/3 1843-1844
BG/7/A/4 1845-1846
BG/7/A/5 1846-1847
BG/7/A/6 1847-1848
BG/7/A/7 1848
BG/7/A/8 1849-1850
BG/7/A/9 1850-1851
BG/7/A/10 1851-1852
BG/7/A/11 1852-1853
BG/7/A/12 1853
BG/7/A/13 1853
BG/7/A/14 1853-1854
BG/7/A/15 1853-1854
BG/7/A/16 1854
BG/7/A/17 1854-1855
BG/7/A/18 1855-1856
BG/7/A/19 1856
BG/7/A/20 1857-1858
BG/7/A/21 1858-1859
BG/7/A/22 1859-1860
BG/7/A/23 1860-1861
BG/7/A/24 1861-1862
BG/7/A/25 1862-1863
BG/7/A/26 1863-1864
BG/7/A/27 1864-1865
BG/7/A/28 1865-1866
BG/7/A/29 1866
BG/7/A/30 1866-1867
BG/7/A/31 1867-1868
BG/7/A/32 1868-1869
BG/7/A/33 1869-1870
BG/7/A/34 1870-1871
BG/7/A/35 1871-1872
BG/7/A/36 1872-1873
BG/7/A/37 1873-1874
BG/7/A/38 1874
BG/7/A/39 1874-1875
BG/7/A/40 1875-1876
BG/7/A/41 1876-1877
BG/7/A/42 1877-1878
BG/7/A/43 1878-1879
BG/7/A/44 1879-1880
BG/7/A/45 1880-1881
BG/7/A/46 1881-1882
BG/7/A/47 1882-1882
BG/7/A/48 1883-1884
BG/7/A/49 1885
BG/7/A/50 1886
BG/7/A/51 1887
BG/7/A/52 1888
BG/7/A/53 1889
BG/7/A/54 1890
BG/7/A/55 1891
BG/7/A/56 1892
BG/7/A/57 1893
BG/7/A/58 1894
BG/7/A/59 1895
BG/7/A/60 1896
BG/7/A/61 1897
BG/7/A/62 1898
BG/7/A/63 1899
BG/7/A/64 1899
BG/7/A/65 1900
BG/7/A/66 1900
BG/7/A/67 1901
BG/7/A/68 1901
BG/7/A/69 1902
BG/7/A/70 1902
BG/7/A/71 1903
BG/7/A/72 1903
BG/7/A/73 1904
BG/7/A/74 1904
BG/7/A/75 1905
BG/7/A/76 1905
BG/7/A/77 1906
BG/7/A/78 1906
BG/7/A/79 1907
BG/7/A/80 1907
BG/7/A/81 1908
BG/7/A/82 1908
BG/7/A/83 1909
BG/7/A/84 1909
BG/7/A/85 1910
BG/7/A/86 1910
BG/7/A/87 1911
BG/7/A/88 1911
BG/7/A/89 1911-1912
BG/7/A/90 1912
BG/7/A/91 1913
BG/7/A/92 1913
BG/7/A/93 1914
BG/7/A/94 1914
BG/7/A/95A 1915
BG/7/A/95B 1915
BG/7/A/96A 1916
BG/7/A/97 1916-1917
BG/7/A/98 1917
BG/7/A/99 1917-1918
BG/7/A/100 1918
BG/7/A/101 1919
BG/7/A/102 1919
BG/7/A/103 1920
BG/7/A/104 1920
BG/7/A/105 1921
BG/7/A/106 1921
BG/7/A/107 1921-1922
BG/7/A/108 1922
BG/7/A/109 1923
BG/7/A/110 1923
BG/7/A/111 1923-1924
BG/7/A/112 1924
BG/7/A/113 1925
BG/7/A/114 1925
BG/7/A/115 1926
BG/7/A/116 1926
BG/7/A/117 1927
BG/7/A/118 1927
BG/7/A/119 1927-1928
BG/7/A/120 1928
BG/7/A/121 1928-1929
BG/7/A/122 1929
BG/7/A/123 1930
BG/7/A/124 1930
BG/7/A/125 1931
BG/7/A/126 1931
BG/7/A/127 1932
BG/7/A/128 1932
BG/7/A/129 1932-1933
BG/7/A/130 1933
BG/7/A/131 1933-1934
BG/7/A/132 1934
BG/7/A/133 1934-1935
BG/7/A/134 1935
BG/7/A/135 1936
BG/7/A/136 1936
BG/7/A/137 1937
BG/7/A/138 1937
BG/7/A/139 1938
BG/7/A/140 1938
BG/7/A/141 1938-1939
BG/7/A/142 1939
BG/7/A/143 1939-1940
BG/7/A/144 1940
BG/7/A/145 1941
BG/7/A/146 1941
BG/7/A/147 1942
BG/7/A/148 1942
BG/7/A/149 1943
BG/7/A/150 1943
BG/7/A/151 1944
BG/7/A/152 1944
BG/7/A/153 1944-1945
BG/7/A/154 1945
BG/7/A/155 1945-1946
BG/7/A/156 1946
BG/7/A/157 1947
BG/7/A/158 1947
BG/7/A/159 1948.
For instance the minute book for August 1843 [BG/7/A/3], details of the appointment of Miss Jane Wylie 'as Superintendent to the industrial training of female pauper children in the workhouse at a salary of œ15 per annum with apartments and board as usual for other officers'.
9 volumes of guardian's attendance books:
BG/7/AB/1-9 1911-1939.
Rough minute book of Labourers' (Ireland) Act:
BG/7/AG/1 1886. This book only contains two entries as the act was not in force in Belfast Union.
Minute book of Belfast Union Works Committee, Medical Charities Committee, Nurses' Home Committee, Finance Committee and Infirmary Committee,:
BG/7/AG/2 1933-1934.
2 reports of Union Finance and Works Committee:
BG/7/AG/3/1-2 1923-1924.
Report of the Union Works Committee:
BG/7/AG/4 1922.
Report of Belfast Union Infirmary and Child Welfare Committee:
BG/7/AG/5 1924.
2 reports of the Union Infirmary Committee:
BG/7/AG/6/1-2 1924.
A report of a special meeting of the Union Finance Committee:
BG/7/AG/7 1924.
Minutes of the Boarding Out Committee:
BG/7/AI/1 1937-1946.
63 books of letters from the Local Government Board:
BG/7/BC/1-63 1879-1937.
40 folders of sanctions from the Local Government Board:
BG/7/BD/1-40 1896-1936.
Letters of the Burial Board:
BG/7/BH/1 1878-1897.
9 files of miscellaneous letters and paper:
BG/7/BH/2-10 1910-1911.
Correspondence relating to a Venereal Disease Scheme:
BG/7/BH/11 1917-1923.
Letters of Belfast Union on Belfast Dispensary Committee's Report:
BG/7/BH/12 1866.
7 volumes of general tenders for workhouse supplies:
BG/7/BJ/1-7 1907-1934.
An account book listing contractors to receive payment:
BG/7/BJ/8 1873.
7 folders of correspondence on sanitation:
BG/7/BK/1-7 1879-1889.
14 general ledgers:
BG/7/CA/1-14 1905-1940.
10 financial statement books of receipts:
BG/7/CD/1A-9 1900-1946.
38 financial statement books regarding expenditure:
BG/7/CE/1-38 1899-1944 (with a few exceptions).
Day book:
BG/7/CH/1 1924-1930.
2 volumes of invoices and receipts:
BG/7/CK/1-2 1932-1939.
3 petty cash account books:
BG/7/CM/1-3 1937-1947.
5 miscellaneous account books:
BG/7/CQ/1-5 1890-1941 (with exceptions).
Indoor and out door relief, weekly returns:
BG/7/D/1 1884-1886
BG/7/D/2 1886-1889
BG/7/D/3 1889-1891
BG/7/D/4 1910-1914
BG/7/D/5 1917-1920
BG/7/D/6 1920-1921
BG/7/D/7 1921-1922
BG/7/D/8 1923-1924
BG/7/D/9 1924-1926
BG/7/D/10 1926-1928
BG/7/D/11 1928-1930.
7 out relief registers (these records have been copied onto microfilm, MIC/15A/HT/1):
BG/7/EA/1 1869-1882
BG/7/EA/2 1869-1898
BG/7/EA/3 1920-1926
BG/7/EA/4 1926-1927
BG/7/EA/5 1927-1931
BG/7/EA/6 1931-1932
BG/7/EA/7 1932-1933.
26 outdoor admission and discharge books,:
BG/7/EC/1-26 1914-1942 (with a few exceptions).
Out relief list for district number 1:
BG/7/ED/1 1912-1924.
Relieving Officer's abstracts of out relief expenditure:
BG/7/EE/1 1911-1926.
Relieving Officer's analysis of out relief:
BG/7/EE/2 1928.
3 diaries of the Relieving Officer:
BG/7/EG/1-3 1933-1935.
16 Master's requisition books:
BG/7/FB/1-16 1914-1927.
Requirement book:
BG/7/FC/1 1931-1934.
11 inventory books:
BG/7/FD/1-11 1928-1946.
Provision check book:
BG/7/BG/1 1948.
11 wages and time books:
BG/7/FP/1-11 1892-1896 and 1941-1945.
7 officer's books, including a list of training undertaken:
BG/7/FQ/1-7 1897-1937 (with exceptions).
4 books recording permanent officers:
BG/7/FQ/8-11 1890-1925.
13 volumes recording salaries of officers:
BG/7/FR/1-13 1926-1946.
9 insurance books:
BG/7/FS/1-9 1914-1948.
271 volumes of indoor registers:
BG/7/G/1-271 1864-1948 (some of the volumes are indexed. The registers are also available of microfilm, MIC/15F/Reels 27-28).
5 indoor admission and discharge books:
BG/7/GA/1-5 1945-1946.
Indoor relief list:
BG/7/GC/1 1946.
2 separate registers for those admitted and discharged from the healthy workhouse departments:
BG/7/GE/1-2 1935-1948.
249 indexes to indoor registers of Belfast workhouse:
BG/7/GK/1-249 1892-1948.
Medical extras book:
BG/7/HB/1 1946.
2 requisition books, summary of invoices and surgical appliances:
BG/7/HH/1-2 1926-1940.
7 admission and discharge books of Belfast infirmary and fever hospital:
BG/7/HI/1-7 1933-1948.
3 volumes of records of operations:
BG/7/HK/1 1932-1933
BG/7/HK/2 1933-1936
BG/7/HK/3 1944-1946.
Register of infants and nurses:
BG/7/IA/1 1903-1909.
Contracts for boarded out children:
BG/7/IC/1 1911-1947.
2 registers of persons receiving reward under the 1908 Children's Act:
BG/7/ID/1 1909
BG/7/ID/2 1912-1934.
Record of prosecutions under the 1908 Children's Act:
BG/7/IE/1 1909-1946.
Record of deaths of children at nurse under 1908 Children's Act and a record of proceedings under the same:
BG/7/IF/1 1913-1947 and 1930-1946.
4 registers kept under the 1908 Children's Act:
BG/7/I/1-4 1914-1947 (with some exceptions).
7 case books with names and addresses and notes on family:
BG/7/JA/1-7 1936-1942.
Register of cases attended by the midwife:
BG/7/JB/1 1934-1937.
Expense account of dispensary districts:
BG/7/JC/1 no date.
Estimates for erection and completion of dispensaries:
BG/7/JF/1-3 1890-1891.
Records of work done to complete dispensaries:
BG/7/JF/2/1-2 1890-1891.
2 volumes of records of births:
BG/7/K/1 1984-1949
BG/7/K/2 1949-1951.
21 volumes of records of deaths:
BG/7/KA/1-21 1872-1951 (with some exceptions).
Deceased paupers clothing book:
BG/7/KA/22 1943-1948.
Notices of removal of a body for examination:
BG/7/KA/24 1948.
Notices of requirement of vaccination:
BG/7/LA/1-5 1884-1893 (with exceptions).
Miscellaneous agreement book relating to forms signed by the parents or guardians of handicapped children on admission to an institution:
BG/7/O/1 1910-1930.
Education office attendance book:
BG/7/O/2 1940-1942.
Volume of agreements relating to sending pupils to Belfast infirmary:
BG/7/O/3 1938.
Volume of dockets:
BG/7/O/4 1930-1934.
Report of patient and medical records:
BG/7/O/5 1948.
A useful publication is Michael Farrell, 'The Poor Law and the Workhouse in Belfast, 1838-1948' (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1978). |
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