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Folio.66 Settlement Examination. Isaac Banks, of Bedford (St. Paul)

8 January 1795

From: 1794 To: 1795

Born at Hale Weston, Hunts., where father James Banks was and remained a parishioner. Bound apprentice, by Indenture now produced, dated 2 August 1785, on which the King’s Duty apparently paid, to Oliver Dring, Warboys, Hunts, carpenter, for a term of 7 years, serving Dring there until latter’s death in May 1788. On delivering up of Banks’s Indentures by Dring’s widow, Banks served her as a journeyman until August 1788, receiving weekly wages, when he left her service and worked continually thereafter as a journeyman. Let himself as a by the week journeyman to Isaac Elger, St. Mary’s, Bedford, about October 1791, receiving his wages weekly, lodging and boarding with Elger and serving him continually till the present. No other settlement. Married Lucy Guess at St. Paul’s, 13 February 1794. One child, aged about 10 weeks.

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Banks, Isaac,
Banks, James,
Banks, Lucy,
Guess, Lucy,
Dring, Oliver,
Elger, Isaac

BEDFORD, Hail Weston, Warboys, POVERTY, Poor Laws, general Poor Laws, Settlement, MARRIAGE, apprenticeship, carpenter, Journeyman, wages/conditions, DEATH