PUBZ3/3/117

Folio.117 Charles Pulley. Settlement examination.

13 April 1814

From: 1814 To: 1814

He is about 29 years of age and was born at St Paul, Bedford. About 14 years since he was bound apprentice to Edward Batten of Welwyn in the County of Hertford, cabinet maker to serve him for six years. He served him for five years and a half and then left him. During the five years and a half he resided in the parish of Welwyn. Immediately after he left his master which was without the consent of Edwrad Battin he went and hired a bed in a house situate in the parish of Woolsthorp in the County of Lincoln and worked as a carpenter in the castle called Belvoir Castle in the County of Leicester. this Examinant hath not to the best of his knowledge and belief done any act whereby to gain a subsequent settlement. About three years and a half since he was married to Frances Orchard in the parish church of Plumb Street, County of Kent, who is still living and by whom he has three children namely Charles aged two years and an half, William aged one year and three quarters and the third is an infant of eighteen weeks or thereabouts not yet been christened.

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Pulley, Charles,
Pulley, Frances,
Pulley, William,
Batten, Edward,
Orchard, Frances

BEDFORD, Welwyn, Woolsthorpe, Leicestershire, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, MARRIAGE, apprenticeship, wages/conditions, cabinet maker, carpenter, Belvoir Castle