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Folio.260-262 Jonathan Partridge St John, Bedford, yeoman.

25 August 1830

From: 1830 To: 1830

I am about 29 years of age. I have been informed that I was born in the City of Bristol where my mother had accompanied my father Jonathan Partridge, he being then a private soldier in the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia. I have heard my father say that he belonged to Bozeat in the County of Northampton and obtained his settlement there by birth. He died at Weedon barracks, County of Northampton about 22 years ago and my mother took me and two more sons to Bozeat for relief. She stayed but a short time at Bozeat, then she went and left me in the care of my grandfather James Partridge of Bozeat, labourer. I continued with my grandfather at Bozeat until I was about 12 or 13 years of age, my grandfatehr often told me that he received weekly relief from the Overseers of the Poor of that parish for me during that time. I do not recall ever receiving any money from them myself. When I was about 14 I entered into the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia and continued there until the 24th June 1829. I have not done any act in my own right to gain a settlement to the best of my knowledge. On 25th January 1829 I was married at St Mary, Bedford to Frances Poole. X signed with the mark of Jonathan Partridge he being now infirm, and in bed, and unable to write. This examination was reported to me one other of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Town by Philip Hunt, Clerk Doctor of Laws the examining Magistrate who at the same time reported to me that the said Jonathan Partridge was very ill and incapable of attending to be examined or of being removed (signed) John Day.

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Partridge, Jonathan,
Partridge, James,
Partridge, Frances,
Poole, Frances,
Hunt, Philip

BEDFORD, Bristol, Bozeat, Weedon, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Overseers, magistrate, Settlement, MARRIAGE, soldier, Bedfordshire Militia, DEATH, illness