PUBV34/1/45

Removal order and settlement examination for Ann Lett, wife of John Lett (a prisoner in the House of Correction of the County of Bedford)and their six children, Alfred aged 8 years, George aged 7 years, Francis aged 6 years, Frederick aged 4 years, Ann aged 2 years and an unbaptised infant aged 3 months. Removal from St Paul, Bedford, to Riseley.

19 December 1840

From: 1840 To: 1840

Examination of John Lett, a prisoner in the House of Correction in the County of Bedford. I was born in about the year 1803 in the parish of Riseley in which my father is a settled inhabitant. About 11 years ago I was married in the parish church of Riseley to Ann Bridges my present wife and buy her I have six children viz Alfred aged 8 years, George aged 7 years, Francis aged 6 years, Frederick aged 4 years, Ann aged 2 years and an unbaptised infant aged 3 months. My said wife and children are now actually chargeable to the parish of St Paul. About 6 years ago I went to reside in the parish of Riseley where I was possessed of an Estate consisting of a cottage and garden to which I became entitled on the death of my mother near twenty years ago under the will of my grandfather Joseph Farrer. I resided in that parish about two years the first year I lived in a house which I hired of John Gell but during the second year I lived in the cottage before mentioned. I sold my cottage and garden to Mr Whitwell of Sharnbrook for fifty pounds and then came to reside in Canning Street, St Paul, Bedford.

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Lett, John,
Lett, Ann,
Lett, Alfred,
Lett, George,
Lett, Francis,
Lett, Frederick,
Farrer, Joseph,
Bridges, Ann,
Whitwell,
Gell, John

BEDFORD, Bedford Canning Street, RISELEY, SHARNBROOK, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, imprisonment, House of Correction, tenancy, rentals, specific buildings & land use