PUBV34/1/90

Removal order and settlement examination for Elizabeth Browning, singlewoman. Removed from St John, Bedford to Wootton.

13 May 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

Examination of Elizabeth Browning: I am now an inmate of the Union Workhouse at bedford. Twelve years ago last Michaelmas a few days before Old michaelmas Day I let myself as a servant to Mr James Ellis of Wootton in this County, farmer, for a year at the wages of nine pounds. I served him under that hiring in the parish of Wootton the full year for which I was hired and and continued in his service for three quarters of a year longer upon the same terms without any fresh hiring. At the end of the three quarters of a year he married and wanted me no longer and I left his service. He paid me all my wages for the first year but not all for the three quarters. He did not turn me away I went away because his wife did not use me well. He told me when I went away he had no money to pay me all and so he only gave me part. I never was married. William Chapman, Master of the Bedford Union Workhouse: The pauper Elizabeth Browning is now maintained as a poor person in the Workhouse of the Bedford Union at the charge of the parish of St John in the Borough and she is now actually chargeable to that parish. Agreeement from the Wootton Overseers to the removal of Elizabeth Browning.

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Browning, Elizabeth,
Ellis, James,
Chapman, William

BEDFORD, WOOTTON, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, Quarter Sessions, employment, wages/conditions, workhouses, servant, farmer, Master of the workhouse, MARRIAGE