PUBV34/1/60

Removal order and settlement examination for James Fisher, an insane person. Removed from St Paul, Bedford to Swineshead, County of Huntingdon.

16 April 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Examination of Ann Fisher, St Paul, Bedford, widow: I am the widow of James Fisher who died on the 8th July 1824. My husband was bound apprentice by Indenture 1805 by the trustees of the Bedford Charity to my late father William Holding of Swineshead, carpenter, for the term of seven years. My said husband served the said William Holding and resided in the said parish of Swineshead during the said term. I know nothing about the original indentures, whatever papers my husband had were delivered to me on his death. I have not the indentures I was married to my husband James Fisher in the parish church at Swineshead by Banns about 3rd October 1820 and have issue one son only viz. James aged about 19 years who was born in the parish of St Paul, Bedford, who is now insane and confined in the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Bedford at the charge of the parish of St Paul. Statement of Samuel Wing: I am clerk to the Guardians of the Bedford Union. The pauper James Fisher is a lunatic now chargeable to the parish of St Paul. He is incapable of giving legal evidence. I received thecounterpart of indenture of apprenticeship which I now produce from Mr Samuel Bailey, Clerk to the Trustees of the Bedford Charity. The deed is dated 30 December 1805, by which it appears that James Fisher of St Peter, Bedford, with the consent of the Masters and Trustees of the Bedford Charity was bound apprentice to William Holding of Swineshead, County of Huntingdon, carpenter to serve from the date of said Indenture for the term of 7 years.

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Fisher, Ann,
Fisher, James,
Holding, William,
Holding, Ann,
Wing, Samuel,
Bailey, Samuel

BEDFORD, SWINESHEAD, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, illness, DEATH, MARRIAGE, lunacy, carpenter, Bedford Asylum, mental health, apprenticeship