Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    P38/13/3/47a-c
  • Title
    a) Letter to the overseers of Cardington from Samuel Wing, Bedford: Gentlemen, the Overseers of Sharnbrook have informed me that you admit Doughty's settlement and do not require his delivery by them. Will you therefore at your convenience sign the enclosed and forwardunto me. It should be signed by three of the parish officers at the least. b) Removal order for Hugh Doughty, Elizabeth his wife and their two children namely Joseph aged two years and John aged one year from Sharnbrook to Cardington. Justices: William Shove Chalk and George Peter Livius. c) Settlement examination made by Thomas Gell, Overseer of Sharnbrook, as to the legal settlement of Hugh Doughty and his family. Examination as follows:
  • Date free text
    22 July 1844 - 29th June 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1844
  • Scope and Content
    Settlement examination of Hugh Doughty: I am about 21 years of age and have done no act to my knowledge to gain a settlement in my own right. I was married three years last May in the parish church of the parish of Sharnbrook in this County to Elizabeth Elderkin, spinster, my present wife by whom I have two children viz Joseph aged two years and Jane aged one year. i and my wife and our said two children are now maintained in the Workhouse of the bedford union at the charge of the said parish of Sharnbrook and we have been there relieved since the eleventh day of June instant previous to which I was residing in an an inhabitant of the said parish of Sharnbrook, I and my said wife and our two children are the persons mentioned in the Certificate now produced by Samuel Wing. 29th June 1844. Settlement examination of Robert Doughty of Sharnbrook, labourer: Hugh Doughty now present is my son by my late wife formerly Sarah Whitney, spinster, to whom I was lawfully married in the parish church of the parish of Sharnbrook in this County about a fortnight before Old Michaelmas day 1809. My said son has done no act to gain a settlement in his own right. I am a settled inhabitant of the parish of Cardington in the County of Bedford. At Dead Mans Cross Statute (which is held about a fortnight before Old Michaelmas Day) in or about 1805 being then an unmarried person without child or children I was hired into the parish of Cardington in the County of Bedford by Mr Samuel Gifford (of the same parish), farmer and maltster (now deceased) as under horsekeeper to serve him fom Old Michaelmas day then next following for one whole year at the wages of five guineas and my board and lodging. My Master when he hired me gave me half a crown earnest money and allowed me two days holiday and at the expiration of those two days I enetered Mr Giffords service as agreen upon and abided in the same service until Old Michaelmas Day 1806 when my Master paid me my full wages and during my said service I resided and inhabited in the said parish of Cardington for forty days and upwards that is to say until the said Old Michaelmas Day 1806. In the year 1828 I was residing in the said parish of Sharnbrook and being in distress I applied for relief to the overseers of the said parish of Cardington. The Overseers were assembeld at a Vestry Meeting held at the Kings Arms Inn in that parish when I made my application, it was on the 1st January 1828. I stated my case and told them I was living at Sharnbrook. The Overseers acknowledged me as belonging to that parish by relieving me with the sum of ten shillings which I received from their hands on the account of the said parish of Cardington (Mr Conquest was one of the overseers) although I was at the time residing in the said parish of Sharnbrook. I have done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere.
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