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Removal Order and settlement examination of William Appleby. Removed from Carlton to Mears Ashby, County of Northampton.

1 June 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Removal Order for William Appleby from Carlton to Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire. 1 June 1844. Certificate of chargeabilty. Chargeable to Carlton from 8 May 1844. Signed Charles Longuet Higgins, Chairman of Bedford Poor Law Union, and Samuel Wing, Clerk, witnessed on verso by James Smithson of Colmworth. Examination of Thomas Hipwell, Overseer of Carlton stating that William Appleby residing in the workhouse at Bedford had come to inhabit in Carlton not having gained any legal settlement there. Settlement examination of William Appleby: I am about 25 years of age. On 19th June 1783 I was bound apprentice by covenant Indenture of that date (duly stamped) which I now produce, by and with the consent of Benjamin Harpur and William Wharton my Guardians appointed by the will of Lydia Knight deceased my grandmother, to William Bradshaw of the parish of Mears Ashby in the County of Northampton, tailor and staymaker to serve him from tyhe date of said Indenture for the full term of seven years for a premium and consideration of £25. I served my said Master William Bradshaw and resided and inhabited with him in the said parish of Mears Ashby under the said indenture for the space of 40 days and upwards (that is to say) for the whole period of my apprenticeship. The Indenture has been in my custody since the expiration of my term of apprenticeship . It was signed and sealed by myself, my master William Bradshaw and my two Guardians William Wharton and Benjamin Harpur as our several acts and deeds in the presence of John Newton Goodhall an Attorney at Law formerly residing at Wellingborough in the County of Northampton and John Mee his Clerk. I have done no act to gain any other settlement. I am now an inhabitant of the parish of Carlton in the county of Bedford and in the Bedford Union and am relieved by the Board of Guardians of that Union with two shillings and sixpence and one loaf of bread per week on the account of the said parish of Carlton, and am actually chargeale to that parish, and I am the person mentioned in the Certificate now produced. Note that copies of documents had been forwarded to Mears Ashby, County of Northampton 4 June 1844.

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Appleby, William,
Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Wing, Samuel,
Smithson, James,
Harpur, Benjamin,
Wharton, William,
Bradshaw, William,
Goodhall, John Newton,
Mee, John,
Hipwell, Thomas,
Knight, Lydia

BEDFORD, Mears Ashby, CARLTON, POVERTY, poor laws, poor law unions, poor law settlements, poor law removals, relieving officer, overseers of the poor, churchwardens, clerks, workhouses, tailors, staymaker, employment, wages/conditions, apprenticeship, wills