PUBZ3/3/32

Folio.32 John Redhouse of St Paul, Bedford, carpenter & joiner. Settlement examination.

August 1811

From: 1811 To: 1811

He was born in St Paul, his father lived there and was a parishioner. He is 33 years of age. At 14 years of age he was put apprentice by the Trustees of Harpurs Charity by Indenture for seven years to Thomas Trapp of St Saviours, Southwark, tallow chandler. He continued with him about two years and a half and was assigned or turned over to his brother William Redhouse of St Paul, carpenter and joiner. He lodged in the same house as his brother at Bedford, Woburn and in the parish of St Mary, Islington, County of Middlesex for about four months and at several other places at different periods during the remainder of his apprenticeship ut cannot recollect where or for how long at any one time. He always paid for his own lodgings and received his own wages of the different masters he and his brother worked for (when they worked together) and maintained himself out of the same. His brother never received any advantage from his labour or otherwise. He has never done any act whereby to gain a settlement to the best of his knowledge or belief. Unsigned.

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Redhouse, John,
Redhouse, William,
Trapp, Thomas

BEDFORD, Southwark, WOBURN, Islington, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, apprenticeship, tallow chandler, carpenter, joiner, Harpur Charity