PUBV34/1/97

Removal order and brief examination for Susannah Pitts. Removed from Rothwell, County of Northampton to Great Barford.

19 July 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

I am the widow of William Pitts of Hunslet near Leeds, husbandman, deceased. I was lawfully married to my said husband at Woodhouse Church near Leeds about January 1839. My husband died about 1st June 1841 and was buried at Hunslet. I am now actually chargeable to and receiving relief from the township of Rothwell. Examination of William Medley Burton, Overseer of the Poor of Rothwell: Susannah Pitts is now resident in the township of Rothwell and has actually become chargeable thereto and he therefore prays an order to remove the said Susannah Pitts. Examination of John Yewdell, Assistant Overseer of the Poor of Hunslet: About the month of May 1841 William Pitts and Susannah his wife and the three children of William Pitts Jane, Mary Ann and Rebecca resided in and became chargeable to the township of Hunslet. The said William Pitts shortly afterwards died and Thomas Pitts (his son) was examined as to the settlement of his sisters Jane, Mary Ann and Rebecca Pitts at Leeds on or about the 10th September 1841 and an order of removal was obtained for their removal on the evidence of Thomas Pitts alone. On 26th September 1841 I caused the said Jane, Mary Ann and Rebecca Pitts to be removed to Great Barford in Bedfordshire as the last place of their legal settlement and they were acknowledged and received by the said township. I afterwards received from Mr Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Board of Guardians of the Bedford Union the sum of £2.6.6 being the charges which I had incurred in maintaining William Pitts deceased and Susannah his wife and Jane, Mary Ann and Rebecca his children during their residence in Hunslet. The examination of Thomas Pitts of Hunslet, labourer: I am the lawful son of William Pitts late of Hunslet, husbandman, deceased. Susannah Pitts now residing at Rothwell is the widow of my said late father. I have also three sisters by the same father all born in lawful wedlock in the parish of Great Barford, namely Jane, Mary Ann and Rebecca none of whom has done any act to gain a settlement for herself. My sisters were residing at Hunslet until September last when they were removed to Great Barford and they are now inmates at the Union Workhouse at Bedford as paupers belonging to Great Barford. I have been informed and believe that my father was born at Great Barford and that continued to be the last place of his lawful settlement until he died in June 1841. The Overseers of great Barford relieved and acknowledged my father about 6 years and a half ago and before then several times. ABout 6 years and a half ago I and my said fatehr and mother and sisters remained inmates of the said house for about 3 weeks. ABout 2 years ago the Overseers of Great Barford provided for my late father and his present widow a towns house at Great Barford which hew occupied until January 1841 as a pauper of that parish.

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Pitts, Susannah,
Pitts, William,
Pitts, Thomas,
Pitts, Jane,
Pitts, Mary Ann,
Pitts, Rebecca,
Burton, William Medley,
Yewdell, John

BEDFORD, GREAT BARFORD, Rothwell, Woodhouse, Hunslet, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, MARRIAGE, DEATH, labourer, husbandman