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Folio.281-284 Mary Brown, widow, at present residing in St Paul, Bedford.

30 Jan 1835

From: 1835 To: 1835

I was married on 12th October 1825 at Pulloxhill to my late husband john Brown who died 16th January instant in St Paul, Bedford and was buried in the burial ground of St Matthews chapel in the same parish. I have four children by my late husband viz - Charlotte aged eight years, Charles aged five years, Mary Ann & Priscilla (being twins) aged two years. I and my family are now actually chargeable to the parish of St Paul. For nine years previous to our marriage my husband was a footman in the service of the late Lord Carteret at Haynes and I saw him occasionally during that period acting as his Lordship's servant. We lived at Pulloxhill for about a year after our marriage and then removed to Clophill where we resided about a quarter of a year. From that time (the summer of 1826) my husband was a renter and collector of Turnpike Tolls at different gates until the summer of 1832 when we came to live at Bedford in lodgings which we occupied for about 12 weeks. Then we rented a house in Fitzwilliam Street, St Pauls, Bedford of Mr Burr the ironmonger for £6.10.0 and occupied it for a year. At Michaelmas 1833 my husband hired a house in the Bromham Road, St Paul, Bedford of Mr Thomas R Burrill at the rent of fifteen pounds a year and paid the full rent for it for the year for which he hired it and obtained Mr Burrills receipt for the rent which I now produce, but about a fortnight before the expiration of the year we let an upstairs room in the same house to Mr Dee at the rent of 3 shillings a week and he occupied that room until a short time after Michaelmas when his son died. About two years ago when living in Mr Burrs house in Fitzwilliam Street my husband was ill and received relief from the parish of Haynes. We had not relief may times, he had two or three shillings at a time. Once my husband went to a parish meeting at Haynes and received relief. I have done no act nor did my late husband in his lifetime to my knowledge to do any act to gain any other settlement. Order to Haynes.

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Brown, Mary,
Brown, John,
Brown, Charlotte,
Brown, Charles,
Brown, Mary Ann,
Brown, Priscilla,
Carteret, Lord,
Burr,
Burrill, Thomas,
Dee

BEDFORD, Bedford Fitzwilliam Street, Bedford Bromham Road, CLOPHILL, PULLOXHILL, HAYNES, Settlement, Overseers, magistrate, POVERTY, Poor Laws, MARRIAGE, footman, employment, rentals, turnpikes, tolls, DEATH, toll collector