PUBZ3/12/10-11

Folio.10-11 Mary Brown, widow, and her four children Charlotte aged eight years, Charles aged five years, and Mary Ann and Priscilla (being twins) aged respectively two years.Lately residing in Bromham Road. Removal Order from St Paul, Bedford to Haynes. Includes settlement examination.

30 January 1835

From: 1835 To: 1835

I was married on 12th October1825 at the parish church of Pulloxhill to my late husband John Brown who died on the 16th day of January instant and was buried in the burial ground of Mr Matthews Chapel in St Paul, Bedford. I have four children by my late husband Charlotte aged eight years, Charles aged five years, and Mary Ann and Priscilla (being twins) aged respectively two years, and I and my family are now actually chargeable to the parish of St Paul. For nine years previous to our marriage my husband was a footman in the service of the Lord Carteret at Haynes and i saw him occasionally during that period acting as his Lordships servant. We lived at Pulloxhill for about half a year after our marriage and then removed to Clophill where we resided about a quarter of a year. From that time - viz the summer of 1826 - my husband was a renter ands collector of turnpike tolls at different gates until the summer of 1832 when we came to liveat Bedford in lodgings which we occupied about twelve weeks. Then we rented a house in Fitzwilliam Street, St Pauls, Bedford of Mr Burr the ironmonger for £6.10.0 and occupied it for a year. At Michaelmas 1833 my husband hired a house in Bromham Road in the same parish of Mr Thomas R Berrill at the rent of fifteen pounds a year. My husband occupied the house and paid the full rent for it for the year for which he hired it and obtained Mr Berrils Receipt for the rent which I now produce, but about a fortnight before the expiration of a year we let an upstairs room in the same house to a Mr Dee at the rent of 3/- a week and he occupied that room until a short time after Michaelmas when his son died. About two years ago when living in Mr Burrs house in Fitzwilliam Street my husband was ill and received relief from the parish of Haynes. We had relief many times. He had two or three shillings at a time. Once my husband went to a parish meeting at Haynes and received relief. I have done no act nor did my late husband in his lifetime to my knowledge do any act to gain any other settlement.

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Brown, Mary,
Brown, John,
Brown, Charlotte,
Brown, Charles,
Brown, Mary Ann,
Brown, Priscilla,
Matthews,
Burr,
Carteret,
Berrill, Thomas Rayment,
Dee

BEDFORD, Bedford Fitzwilliam Street, Bedford Bromham Road, HAYNES, PULLOXHILL, CLOPHILL, removal, Settlement, general Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Overseers, POVERTY, MARRIAGE, transportation, wages/conditions, servant, footman, tenancy, rentals, turnpikes, toll collector