Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBZ3/12/65-66
  • Title
    Folio.65-66 William Turvey, Martha his wife and their child William aged two years. Removal Order from St Cuthbert, Bedford to Houghton Conquest. Includes settlement examination.
  • Date free text
    18 December 1835
  • Production date
    From: 1835 To: 1835
  • Scope and Content
    I am about 49 years of age or thereabouts and was I am informed and believe to be true am the legitimate son of Thomas Turvey and Hannah his wife formerly Hannah Stonebanks who were married at the parish church of Houghton Conquest in the County of Bedford between the years 1770 - 1780. My father had at the time of his marriage gained a settlement in that parish by hiring and service under different masters - Mr Shouler, Mr Armstrong, Mr Titus Cherry and Mr Redman for a year or more each. My father lived in a house which he built upon the waste and for which he paid two shillings a year to the Lord of the Manor. About a fortnight before his death he was removed by the parish officers of Houghton Conquest to the workhouse where he died 7th August 1834. My mother died in 1805. I enlisted in the first Chatham division of Royal Marines immediately after her death and have been discharged from that service above seven years and a half. I was married at Stoke Ferry in Norfolk in May 1830 to my wife then Martha Thorpe by whom I have one child now living - William aged two years. Three days after Christmas 1830 I and my wife were removed by an Order of two Justices of Lincolnshire from Holbeach in that County where I had then become chargeable to the parish of Houghton Conquest. Mr Johnson of Spalding was one of the removing magistrates, I do not know who the other one was. The master of the workhouse at Holbeach conveyed me to Houghton Conquest. There was no appeal from the order. I have done no act to my knowledge to gain any other settlement and am now actually chargeable to the parish of St Cuthbert, Bedford.
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