This is a list of selected records of the Bath Board of
Guardians. A complete list of the records is
held in the Record Office search room.
Records of the Board of Guardians
Minute books (1836-1930)
Ledgers (1836-1909)
Letter books (1864-1903)
Register of Children Boarded Out 1869-1918
Registers of Persons Receiving Infants 1895-1909, 1914-1930
List of Nurse Children & Foster Parents (Walcot, Twerton,
Lyncombe and Rural Districts) 1918-27
Register of Young Persons (under 16) Hired from Bath Workhouse
1851-1897
Register of Visits to Boys and Girls sent out as Apprentices
from Bath Workhouse 1882-1901
Records of the Workhouse
Registers of the admission of 'casuals' (vagrants who were
allowed to stay only for one night),1915-1934,
Registers of baptisms 1846-1932
Registers of burials 1847-1899