Transcriptions of 8,600 certificates that allowed people to return to a parish if a parish they moved to ejected them. Useful for tracing the migration of poorer citizens.

An index to and images of books dealing with legal matters and administration in the county. They cover legal decisions, costs of prosecution, filiation and maintenance orders, settlement orders, removal orders, transportation orders, sentences passed on criminals, setting highway rates, appointing officials and presentments for repairs to roads and bridges, poor relief, settlement, licences for various trades and more.

Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.

Digital images, and transcriptions of account books, payments to paupers, clothing books, nursing books, pauper examinations, parish & vestry minutes, overseer's books, settlement certificates, bastardy examinations, removal orders, bastardy registers and other records relating to the poor.

Settlement papers give details on people removed from other parishes to Evercreech.

Digital images of parish records, besides baptism, marriage & burial registers. These records can include genealogical and biographical information that does not occur in registers. The collection includes: account books, vestry books, marriage licences, letters, rate books, orders of removal, churchwarden’s books, rents, constable records, papist estates, parish addresses, deeds, logs, minutes & orders.

A database containing abstract details of examinations of eligibility to reside in St Martin's parish and examinations of unmarried pregnant women.

Abstracts of 532 records of settlement, removal and bastardy recorded by the parish church.

A lengthy article detailing the practice of moving the needy poor between parishes. Contains examples of settlements, removals and examinations.

Abstracts of over 20,000 removal orders, which provided legal backing to move people to their parish of settlement.