Reference
P5/13/2/65a
Title
Settlement examination of Joseph Lee.
Date free text
5 February 1819
Production date
From: 1819 To: 1819
Scope and Content
Born at Bluham. Father Richard resided at Blunham but Richard's settlement was Wilden, as he had gained no settlement at Blunham, ‘by reason of his apprenticeship there with one Emery who was a Certificated Man from Eaton Socon to Blunham aforesaid’. Joseph lived with father Richard at Wilden, trained up by him in tailoring business until he was about 20 years old, but not by contract or indenture; enlisted into the 103rd Regt. of Foot, from which discharged 24 October 1817; came home to Richard then residing at St. Neot’s, Huntingdonshire, and worked for board, no wages, until 22 September 1818 when he married Mary at Eaton Socon, then lived at Eaton Ford in that parish but worked for Richard 2-3 weeks following his marriage, then worked for others and occasionally Richard; no act to gain settlement in his own right by service or otherwise.
Endorsed: When Joseph was about 17, his father Richard let him for a year to Joseph Brown of Cardington, tailor, for £5 wages and to have the harvest month [i.e., excepting that time]; Joseph worked at Brown's at tailoring trade till harvest, then harvested with Mr. Carter Potts of Renhold at 30s wages and his board 'for rather more than a month'; returned to Joseph Brown till the end of the contracted year, received the £5.
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