Oldham Poor Law Union

The constituent parishes were:
Birch in Hopwood, Lancashire Tonge cum Alkrington, Lancashire,  Chadderton St Matthew, Lancashire Chadderton St John, Lancashire, Coldhurst, Lancashire, East Crompton, Lancashire ,  Glodwick, Lancashire  , Hollinwood, Lancashire , Leesfield, Lancashire, Middleton, Lancashire,   Oldham St Mary, Lancashire,  Oldham St James, Lancashire ,Oldham St Peter, Lancashire , Royton, Lancashire,    Shaw Holy Trinity, Lancashire ,Thornham , Tonge, Waterhead, Lancashire ,Werneth, Lancashire Later Additions Great Lever, Lancashire

(from 1894): Littleborough, Lancashire,  Milnrow, Lancashire, Norden, Oldham,  Whitworth, Lancashire.

Records
• Oldham Local Studies and Archives, 84 Union Street, Oldham, OL1 1DN. Extensive holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1837-1930); Births (1847-1931); Deaths (1887-94, 1917-47); Creed registers (1891-1946, with gaps); Children received and detained in the workhouse (1910-41); etc.

Workhouse registers of births and deaths, 1847-1922 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Central Library, Oldham. Oldham Central Library: PUO/12/2/1-2, 3/1 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990

Websites
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.ukand http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Oldham/Oldham.shtml