PUBV34/1/69

Removal Order and settlement examination for Ann Ball, singlewoman. Removed from St Peter, Bedford to Ramsey, County of Huntingdon

1 October 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Examination of William Millwood of St Paul, Bedford, relieving officer for the South District of the Bedford Union: Ann Ball, singlewoman is now a patient in the Lunatic Asylum of the County of Bedford where she is now confined and maintained at the expense of St Peter, Bedford, and she is now actually chargeable to the parish of St Peter. She is incapable of giving any evidence as to her settlement. Examination of John Southam of Ramsey, County of Huntingdon, draper: I know Ann Ball the pauper. I saw her today in the Lunatic Asylum of the county of Bedford. She is confined as an insane person. I assisted my father John Southam, late of the parish of Ramsey, County of Huntingdon, deceased in his business. I kept his accounts for him and occasionally paid money for him. I remember the pauper Ann Ball being in my father's service for two years or thereabouts from Old Michaelmas 1831 to the time of his death in November 1833. On the 15th October 1833 I myself paid her seveen pounds for one years wages due from my father to her for the proceeding years service. My father died on 27th November 1833. On 12th March 1834 I paid her on account of my father's executors three pounds ten shillings for half a years wages. The Executors disposed with her service for the remainder of that half year , she then left. I am quite sure she was in my fathers service prior to Old Michaelmas 1832. Examination of Arabella Cooper, wife of George Cooper of St Peter, Bedford, servant: The pauper Ann Ball is my sister. She is a singlewoman. In March 1834 she went to live as a servant to Mr Raymond at The Crescent, St Peter, Bedford. She succeeded me in that service and remained there six years. She afterwards went into the service of Mr Monkhouse at Goldington which she left last Christmas. She has not to my knowledge done any act to gain another settlement since she left Ramsey. She is now in the Lunatic Asylum. Statement of the churchwardens and Overseers of Ramsey subitting and abiding by the order for removal of Ann Ball.

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Ball, Ann,
Ball, Arabella,
Cooper, Arabella,
Cooper, George,
Southam, John,
Raymond,
Monkhouse

BEDFORD, Bedford The Crescent, GOLDINGTON, Ramsey, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, draper, MARRIAGE, DEATH, illness, mental health, Poor Rate, lunacy, Bedford Lunatic Asylum, servant, wages/conditions