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Folio.109 Purdery Sills, of Bedford (St. Paul)

21 September 1799

From: 1799 To: 1799

Born at Stapleford, Notts, where father, Henry Sills, was a parishioner and a stocking weaver by trade. Was apprenticed to his uncle, Samuel Hooley, Stapleford, but did not serve the whole of this term, being bought out by his father. Enlisted as a soldier and volunteer in the Derbyshire Militia, 4 March 1793, in which he still served. Married Elizabeth Dudley, St. Paul’s, at St. Peter’s, 21 September 1799. No other settlement since leaving Stapleford.

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Sills, Purdery,
Sills, Elizabeth,
Sills, Henry,
Dudley, Elizabeth,
Hooley, Samuel

BEDFORD, Stapleford, POVERTY, Poor Laws, general Poor Laws, Settlement, MARRIAGE, army, Derbyshire militia, apprenticeship, stockinger