Information on Poorhouses and Relief in Scotland
This is a working page whose primary function is the capture of links related to Poor Relief in Scotland. Most links here will eventually be relocated to country, county or parish pages, or to specialist topic pages..
Scotland National
Poorhouses in Scotland - The Workhouse
After 1845, parishes in Scotland could choose to set up workhouses or, as happened in a large proportion of cases, just to give out-relief. The parishes or Combinations (Unions) of parishes that did operate formally constituted workhouses — more usually called poorhouses or poor's houses — are listed.
Poor Law Unions in Scotland - The Workhouse
The Workhouse in Scotland. (Note — workhouses in Scotland were more usually termed 'poorhouses'.)
Parish Almshouses in Scotland - The Workhouse
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham.
Scottish poorhouse - Wikipedia
The Scottish poorhouse, occasionally referred to as a workhouse, provided accommodation for the destitute and poor in Scotland.
Scotland Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki
In Scotland, the government passed an act addressing the relief of the poor as early as 1424.
Knowledge Base - Scottish Poorhouses - Scottish Archive Network
A website with information on workhouses is The Workhouse, but bear in mind the differences between English workhouses and Scottish poorhouses.
Poor Relief Records | National Records of Scotland.
Scottish Poorhouses – National Library of Scotland Blog
The Scottish Archive Network focusses specifically on Scottish poorhouses and poor relief.
Poor Law Records (Scotland) - GenGuide
Section of the Poor Law Commission for Scotland Report 1884.
Cage, Robert A. (1974) The Scottish poor law, 1745-1845.
PhD. Thesis, Glasgow University - 1974
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
23 Dec 2015 - Caricature of poor people at a workhouse having dinner; by Phiz. For its December 25th, 1840 edition, the Morning Chronicle polled workhouse managers to discover what the poor of London could expect for their Christmas Day.
Scotland Counties
Lanarkshire Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc.
Friends of Dundee City Archives - Poorhouse Records
ScotlandsPeople | Connecting Generations
ABERDEEN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS AND IRISH WORKHOUSES:
A paper read before the Dublin Statistical Society in November 1860 regarding the Aberdeen Feeding Schools, contrasting their approach with that in Irish workhouses.
Scottish Towns and Parishes
Life in an Edinburgh poorhouse - Edinburgh Evening News
5 Dec 2016 - FOR many poverty-stricken families in Victorian Scotland the ... Poorhouses, known as workhouses south of the border, had never been built to ...
Poor Relief records | Aberdeen City Council
Edinburgh workhouse records (Midlothian) - RootsChat.Com
Barnhill Workhouse Glasgow - British Genealogy
A brief history of the University of Edinburgh Forrest Hill building
General
The implementation of the Poor Law - The Victorian Web
British social policy 1601-1948
Neonatal and maternal mortality in the workhouse of St. Martin in the Field, 1725-1824 (PDF)
The voluntary hospitals in history - Voluntary Hospitals Database
