Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBZ3/7/130
  • Title
    Folio.211-213 Amelia Arnold wife o fIsaac Arnold late of St Peter, Bedford, as to the legal settlement of her husband and family.
  • Date free text
    28 April 1830
  • Production date
    From: 1830 To: 1830
  • Scope and Content
    I am about 40 years of age. I was born at Steppingley. My father Richard Cooke resided there and belonged to that parish. Thirteen years ago last Michaelmas I was married at Ridgmont to Isaac Arnold. About Michaelmas 1815 he hired a house at Husborne Crawley of Samuel Langley at the yearly rent of £8 and on the ninth of October in the same year he hired a shop in the same parish of Husborne Crawley of John Barnes at the yearly rent of one pound eighteen shillings and he built a forge and carried on his business of a blacksmith there on the same terms for four years paying the several rents and taxes. We then went to live at Ridgmont, my husband having hired a house and shop there of Mr Thomas Hardwicke at the yearly rent of nine guineas. We remained at Ridgmont about eight years paying rent and all taxes. We came to Bedford two years ago last Michaelmas and we lived in a house in the parish of St Peter for which we paid six pounds ten shillings a year rent. Last Michaelmas my husband hired a house and shop of Thomas Covington in the parish of St Peter at the yearly rent of fifteen pounds. I have heard my husband say that he considered the parish of Ridgmont to be his place of settlement, being born there, and his father Amos Arnold belonging to Ridgmont. I have five children by my husband, namely John aged thirteen years, Charles aged twelve, Joseph aged eight, James aged five and Ann aged twenty months none of whom have gained a settlement in their own right. My husband left me the eighth day of April instant to procure work and told me he would let me knowwhen he gt work, but I have not heard from him, nor do I know where he is.
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