Records

We hold a variety of original records which are available to view at the Record Office

Please note that work on this section is still in progress, although there is a full listing only some of these are links at the moment. More information on collections of records held at the Record Office will appear in due course. Select the links below for more details on those records.

• Anglican parish registers/transcripts
• Apprenticeship records
• Business records
• Borough and other council records
• Census returns
• Churchwardens records
• Electoral registers
• Family and estate collections
• GRO indexes, military records, emigration, newspapers
• Maps
• Non-Conformist registers
• Non-ecclesiastical registers of birth and death
• Overseers of the Poor records
• Poor Law unions
• Quarter sessions
• Reference library
• Settlement papers
• Solicitors records
• Wills and probate records