Dundee Poorhouse Records
The Dundee East Poorhouse
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The Friends of Dundee City Archives have created a very useful resource of the story of the two Dundee poorhouses of the 19th Century - The Dundee East Poor house and the Liff and Benvie Poorhouse
The various lists of who was included in the registers and on the Census years of 1861 to 1901
Also stories of How the Poor lived and the Working Poor of Dundee
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Explanation of the Poorhouse Data
Explanations of the Data held in the East Poorhouse Register and the Liff & Benvie General Register
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The Poor Indexes and Data
Liff and Benvie Poor, 1854 to 1865 and Dundee East Register 1856 to 1878
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The Poor in Liff & Benvie
The Register of Poor Admitted on the Roll of the United Parish of Liff and Benvie
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Poor Law in Scotland before 1845
Parliamentary legislation concerning the poor began in the 15th century. Early statutes were mostly for the suppression of idle beggars, but gradually two important principles emerged.
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