As a placement student here at the Dorset History Centre, I was given wider rein with this blog to write about an apprentice of my choice. I headed to the archives of my favourite spot in Dorset, Lyme Regis. In this collection I found the apprenticeship indenture of a seven-year-old boy Henry Lock, whose family… Read more Henry Lock: The ten-year-old apprentice
The Milton Abbas Local History Group have transcribed 60,000 records of all the existing Overseers of the Poor Account books for Milton Abbas from 1771 to 1836, and are finding that the records are a fantastic resource for researching local and family history. The account book in the Dorset History Centre covers the years 1818… Read more Overseers of the Poor Account Books
Public enquiries often draw our attention to collections we haven’t focused on before. Last year, we received a request to copy a selection of letters to the Blandford Overseers of the Poor, asking for parish relief. This is a fascinating record of those in a difficult position in the past, which we’ll take a closer… Read more Poor relief and charity
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