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Folio.61 – 63 Catherine Smith wife of Richard Smith.

7 April 1820

From: 1820 To: 1820

About 33 years of age. Born at St Peter, Bedford where her father James Mennard then and now resides, thatcher. She was married to Richard Smith of Eversholt, shoemaker at St Peter, Bedford about Michaelmas 1810. The summer after they were married her husband took of her father James Mennard a cottage at Ridgmont, Bedford at the rent of seven pounds a year and about four years afterwards he took a close of Mr Cotchings in the same place Ridgmont at a rent of four pounds a year. They resided in the cottage and held both until Michaelmas 1818 then gave up the close but resided in the cottage til the 5 Nov 1819 then they went to Leicester and resided in a house at St Martins parish which her husband hired of Mr Rawson. Of the same parish, stocking weaver, at the rent of £15 a year. They lived in that house 13 weeks when the creditors came upon her husband he went away and she came to her father’s at Bedford. Her husband paid something above 30 shillings to Mr Rawson for the rent from November to St Thomas. It was the only rent they paid. Left Leicester on 7 February 1819. They kept a shop at Leicester and sold grocery and bread. There was one –Brown a servant to Mr Rawson who owed Richard Smith twenty shillings for bread. She has five children by her husband Robert aged 7, Elizabeth aged 6, Mary Ann aged 4, William aged 3 and Thomas aged 1.

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Smith, Catherine,
Smith, Richard,
Mennard, James,
Mennard, Catherine,
Cotchings,
Brown,
Rawson,
Smith, Robert,
Smith, Elizabeth,
Smith, Mary Ann,
Smith, William,
Smith, Thomas

BEDFORD, RIDGMONT, Leicester, POVERTY, Overseers, Poor Laws, Settlement, settlements, stockings, servant, MARRIAGE, rentals, debtor, thatcher