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Folio.15 Settlement Examination. Charles French, corporal, 4th or Queen’s Own Regiment of Dragoons, presently quartered at Bedford.

4 December 1792

From: 1792 To: 1792

Born at Wellingborough, Northants, where his father resided. Bound apprentice to Robert Cleets, of Bell Yard, Doctors Commons, St. Gregory’s, City of London, silver chaser, for 7 years on 1 October 1777, at Goldsmiths Hall. Served about 3 years 1 month in St. Gregory’s, City of London, when Cleets removed to the Old Bailey, City of London, opposite Surgeons Hall, French serving him there about a year. Cleets again removed, about 1781, to Little Brittain, City of London, but French unaware of parish in which served remainder of his apprenticeship with Cleets. Stated that Cleets rented a house and paid taxes when he lived in Bell Yard, but that he lived only in lodgings in the Old Bailey and in Little Brittain. Married Ann Brighton at St. Paul’s, 6 November 1792, being then a single man.

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French, Charles,
French, Ann,
Brighton, Ann,
Cleets, Robert

BEDFORD, Wellingborough, City of London, POVERTY, Poor Laws, general Poor Laws, Settlement, MARRIAGE, apprenticeship, silversmith, corporal, Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons, rentals, tenancy, wages/conditions, taxation