Hello Brian and List Like anything else, I expect there was huge variation from parish to parish or township to township. I am lucky to have had pauper ancestors in Midgley near Halifax in the eighteenth century. I say lucky, because the account books of the Overseers of the Poor in Midgley survive, with recipients named from 1756 onwards. I'm lucky again, in that 1756 was the year that my 7x great-grandfather Joshua BEDFORD died, aged 83. The accounts list amounts paid out for the provision of a bed for him in his final illness, payment to a woman for washing his bed clothes and attending him, the cost of his coffin and the cost of meat and drink for mourners attending the funeral. All in all, quite a heartening picture of pauper existence and burial in the 1750s, in Midgley at any rate. Kind regards, Lesley