FULL TITLE:  Bradfield Union - Workhouse Births/Baptisms and Deaths/Burials 1835-1900.

This booklet contains a transcription of several records relating to the Bradfield Union held at Berkshire Record Office - Register of Births 1836-1862, Register of Baptisms 1845-1900, Register of Deaths 1835-1842, Register of Burials 1845-1900 and a Register of Affiliations 1853-1864.  The Bradfield Poor Law Union was formed on 2 March 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Aldermaston, Ashampstead, Basildon, Beenham, Bradfield, Bucklebury, Burghfield, Englefield, Frilsham, Padworth, Pangbourne, Purley, Stanford Dingley, Stratfield Mortimer, Streatley, Sulham, Sulhamstead Abbots, Sulhamstead Bannister, Tidmarsh, Tilehurst, Ufton and Yattendon [all Berkshire] and Goring, Mapledurham and Whitchurch [all Oxfordshire].   

FULL TITLE:  Cookham Union - Workhouse Births and Deaths 1836-1868.

This booklet contains a transcription of the surviving birth and death registers relating to the Cookham Union held at Berkshire Record Office.  The Cookham Poor Law Union was formed on 20 July 1835 and comprised the parishes of Bisham, Bray, Cookham, Hurley, Shottesbrook, Waltham St. Lawrence and White Waltham.  With the growth of the town of Maidenhead, which was situated partly in Cookham and partly in Bray parish, the Union was renamed Maidenhead in 1896.

FULL TITLE:  Easthampstead Union - Workhouse Births and Deaths 1849-1914. 

This booklet contains a transcription of the surviving birth and death registers relating to the Easthampstead Union held at Berkshire Record Office.  The Easthampstead Poor Law Union was formed on 27 July 1835 and comprised the parishes of Binfield, Easthampstead, Sandhurst, Warfield and Winkfield with Ascot. 

FULL TITLE:  Hungerford Union - Workhouse Births and Deaths 1866-1914 and Paupers' Service Book 1877-1917.

This booklet contains a transcription of three records relating to the Hungerford Union held at the Berkshire Record Office - Registers of Births and Deaths for 1866-1914 and a Paupers' Service Book 1877-1917.  Each entry in the Register of Births includes the child's date of birth, sex, the name of the parents or mother, and from what parish the parent was admitted.  Some entries also state when and where the child was baptised and in what name baptised.  Each entry in the Register of Deaths includes the date of death, name and age of deceased, the parish to which he/she belonged, when and where buried and by whom or at whose expense.  The Paupers' Service Book is a register of children placed in work or training between 1877 and 1917.  The children, both boys and girls, were aged between eight and eighteen years.  Most of them were engaged to serve local tradesmen and farmers.  The Hungerford Poor Law Union was formed on 1 May 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Avington, East Garston, East Shefford, Inkpen, Kintbury, Lambourn, West Shefford and West Woodhay [all Berkshire], Aldbourne, Baydon, Buttermere, Froxfield, Great Bedwyn, Ham, Little Bedwyn and Ramsbury [all Wiltshire] and Chilton Foliatt, Hungerford and Shalbourne [part Berkshire, part Wiltshire].  Combe [Hampshire] was added later in 1835 and Tidcombe [Wiltshire] in September 1836.  Hippenscombe [Wiltshire] was added in September 1858.    

FULL TITLE:  Newbury Union - Workhouse Births 1836-1909 and Deaths 1868-1909.

This booklet contains a transcription of the surviving birth and death registers relating to the Newbury Union held at Berkshire Record Office.  The Newbury Poor Law Union was formed on 7 April 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Boxford, Brimpton, Chieveley, Enborne, Greenham, Hampstead Marshall, Leckhamstead, Midgham, Newbury, Sandleford, Shaw cum Donnington, Speen, Thatcham, Wasing, Welford, Winterbourne and Woolhampton [all Berkshire] and Newtown [Hampshire].  Cold Ash, a parish created in 1865 from Thatcham, was added in 1894.

FULL TITLE:  Windsor Union - Workhouse Deaths 1835-48 and 1867-88 and Paupers' Service Book 1877-1914. 

This booklet contains a transcription of three records relating to the Windsor Union held at Berkshire Record Office - Register of Deaths for 1835-1848 and 1867-1888 and a Paupers' Service Book 1877-1914.  Each entry in the Register of Deaths includes the date of death, name and age of the deceased, the parish to which he/she belonged, when and where buried and by whom and at whose expense.  The Paupers' Service Book is a register of children placed in work or training between 1877 and 1914.  The children, both boys and girls, were aged between eight and nineteen years.  Although the majority of the children were engaged to serve local tradesmen and farmers some of the boys were placed on naval training ships, in military service or sent to serve the owners of fishing smacks in Great Grimsby and elsewhere.  Between 1890 and 1906 around twenty children were sent to Canada.  The Windsor Poor Law Union was formed on 7 September 1835 and initially comprised the parishes of Clewer, New Windsor with Dedworth, Old Windsor and Sunninghill [all Berkshire] and Egham and Thorpe [both Surrey].

FULL TITLE:  Wokingham Union - Workhouse Deaths 1866-1925.

A transcription of the death registers for the Wokingham Union for the years 1866 to 1925 inclusive.  The Wokingham Poor Law Union was formed on 1 August 1835 and comprised the parishes of Arborfield, Barkham, Finchampstead, Hurst (including Twyford and the Liberties of Newland, Winnersh and Whistley), Ruscombe, Shinfield, Sonning (including Earley Liberty, Woodley and Sandford), Swallowfield, Wargrave and Wokingham [all Berkshire].