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Folio.156-158 George Franklin of St Paul, Bedford.

20 October 1840

From: 1840 To: 1840

I am 32 years of age and was born in the parish of St Mary, Bedford. When I was 14 years of age I was removed with my father by order of removal from the Bedford Workhouse to the parish of Northill in this County, from which order I believe there was no appeal. My father has resided at Bedford ever since. At the age of seventeen I enlisted as a soldier and served in the East Indies for fourteen years. I returned a year ago from the East Indies and have lived as Keeper at the Lunatic Asylum. I now occupy a house in Gas Street, St Paul, at the annual rent of five pounds. I was married on Sunday last the eighteenth day of October instant at the parish Church of St Mary to my wife Matilda, formerly Matilda Howard of the parish of St Mary, Spinster.

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Franklin, George,
Franklin, Matilda,
Howard, Matilda

BEDFORD, Bedford Gas Street, NORTHILL, East Indies, poor law unions, poor law settlements, employment, marriages, rentals, tenancy, wages/conditions, soldiers, mental health