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Folio.125-127 John Chamberlain residing in St Paul, Bedford, shoemaker.

June 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

I am about 22 years of age, was born in the parish of St Paul aforesaid where my father John Chamberlain then resided and belonged.. When I wa about 14 years of age I was placed out apprentice by the Trustees of Harpurs Charity by Indenture dates 1st February 1827 to Richard Rowe Chambers of St Sepulchre, Northampton, shoemaker for seven years. Before I was bound I resided 10 days with my master at St Sepulchre and on the execution of my Indentures of apprenticeship in Bedford I returned with my Master to Northampton and continued there till the 1st April 1827 when he said to me 'you may go off home, I have got the money and I don't want any more bother with you'. I then came to my friends in Bedford. My Master left northampton about a month afterwards and I have never since had any application from him or seen him. My Master was a married man and rented a very small house in St Sepulchre. I boarded with my Master in the house in which he lived but was lodged with Richard Bass of St Sepyulchre, shoemaker for about a month or five week, and then my Master lodged me with Thomas Kirby in St Giles, Northampton shoemaker, and i slept there for six weeks and upwards at the least until the day I left Northampton. I used to go to my lodgings about ten or eleven o clock in the evening and returned to My Master about five or six the next morning. I have not done any other act to gain a settlement to the best of my knowledge. I was married on 28 October 1831 at St Peter, Bedford to Alice Kendall by whom I have one son named William about a twelvemonth old. Not signed or dated. Note: Orders made but not acted upon.

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Chamberlain, John,
Chamberlain, William,
Chamberlain, Alice,
Kendall, Alice,
Chambers, Richard Rowe,
Bass, Richard,
Kirby, Thomas

BEDFORD, Northampton, poor law settlements, overseers of the poor, magistrate, POVERTY, poor laws, marriages, shoemakers, apprenticeship, Harpur Charity