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Folio.153-154 Francis Shirley of St Paul, Bedford, shoemaker.

17 October 1840

From: 1840 To: 1840

I am 28 years of age and was born at Sevenoaks, County of Kent. My father resided there at the time of my birth. He rented a house and farm there at the rent of £300 or £400 a year. my father resided there about ten years. I lived with my father until I was about five years old. My father then took a farm at Mill Hill in the parish of Hendon, in the County of Middlesex at the annual rent of £150. My father resided there about eleven or twelve years during which time I lived with him. My father then came to reside at Bedford and has lived there ever since. At the age of 13 I was apprenticed by Indenture in Compton Street, Soho, to David Perryman, silver smith and pawnbroker for the term of seven years. I only stopped there about five years, during which time and during the last forty nights I slept at my fathers at Mill Hill. In November 1831 I let myself to Colonel Banner as coachman by the yearly wages of twenty five pounds and board, wages according to circumstances. He had a house in [?] and another at Worthing. I remained in his service a year and a half and slept the last night but one at Worthing which was the last place at which I had in the whole slept forty nights during his service. I now occupy a house in St Paul in this Borough at the rent of eight pounds. I was married on Tuesday 13th instant to Eliza Hart.

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Shirley, Francis,
Shirley, Eliza,
Hart, Eliza,
Perryman, David,
Banner, Colonel

BEDFORD, Sevenoaks, Hendon, Soho, Worthing, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, employment, MARRIAGE, rentals, tenancy, wages/conditions, apprenticeship, silversmith, pawnbroker, farmer, shoemaker, coachman