Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBZ3/3/99
  • Title
    Folio.99 William Hawkes the younger, residing in St Paul, Bedford, baker. Settlement examination.
  • Date free text
    12 October 1813
  • Production date
    From: 1813 To: 1813
  • Scope and Content
    He is 73 years of age, was born at Puddington. At about 13 years of age he was placed out apprentice to his brother Thomas Hawkes, a baker at Dorrington in Northamptonshire for 7 years. He served about half that time then left his brother by agreement and hired himself to WIlliam Fox of Ruysden [Rushden] County of Northampton, baker, as a journeyman from Michaelmas to the Michaelmas following but he cannot tell in what year, at the wages of six or seven pounds. At the end of the year of his first hiring he let himself again to Mr Fox but his master failing he stayed with him only a short time. When he was about 20 years of age he hired a house and some land in Ruysden [Rushden] and carried on the trade of a baker there for about 30 years. He paid 8 guineas a year rent til it was enclosed and then his rent was increased to 10 guineas a year. He was regularly assessed to the poor rates and other taxes of Ruysden [Rushden] and paid the same. Being obliged to give up the house he worked as a journeyman at Ruysden for three or four years and then came to work with William Chambers of St Mary, baker, as a journeyman. He continued with him about a year and then (about 16 or 17 years ago) he hired a house, yard and other premises of Mr Chambers in Gaol Lane, St Paul, Bedford at a rent of 12 guineas a year. The parish officers of St Paul rated him to the poor rate at fifteen pounds rent which he refusing to pay they seised and sold his good for three rates and he afterwards paid the poor rate and other taxes for the whole of the year and was assessed in the rate books. He also paid his full rent of 12 guineas to his landlord William Chambers who then sold the estate to Matthias Ossington Stratton of whom he rented a small part of the premises only at five pounds a year and has continued to do so til the present time. He was married to his wife Sarah 35 years since at Stevington by whom he has no children now living.
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