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Removal order and settlement examination for Mowsley Howell and Susannah his wife. Removed from Thurleigh to Great Catworth, County of Huntingdon.

29 Nov - 6 December 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

Removal order. Certificate stating that Mouzeley Howell was admitted to the workhouse 29th November 1842. Statement of Thurleigh Overseer Thomas Babbington requesting removal of Mouzeley Howell & Susannah his wife as they are chargeable to the parish. Examination of Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Guardians of the Poor of the Bedford Union verifying the above. Examination of Mouseley Howell: I am about 18 years of age. I have done no act to my knowledge to gain a settlement in my own right. On 1st march 1842 I was lawfully married in the parish church of Bletsoe to Susannah Rowney, spinster my present wife. I and my wife are the persons mentioned in the certificate of chargeability. Examination of Thomas Babbington, Overseer of Thurleigh: I produce an Order under the hands and seals of 'Owsley Rowley' and 'J Linton' therein described as two Justices of the peace for the County of Huntingdon bearing date 11th September 1824 whereby James Howell of Great Catworth, labourer, was adjudged to be the reputed father of a male bastard child born of the body of Elizabeth Howell late Elizabeth Barnard singlewoman on 8th July preceding. Examination of Elizabeth Howell: The above named Mouzeley Howell is my illegitimate son. In the month of July 1824 being then a single woman I was delivered of him in the house of my mother Martha Barnard in the parish of Great Catworth in the County of Huntingdon. My said son is the male child described in the order produced by Mr Babbington.

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Howell, Mouzeley,
Howell, Elizabeth,
Howell, James,
Howell, Susannah,
Barnard, Elizabeth,
Barnard, Martha,
Babbington, Thomas,
Rowney, Susanna,
Wing, Samuel,
Linton, J.,
Rowley, Owsley

BEDFORD, BLETSOE, THURLEIGH, Great Catworth, POVERTY, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, Overseers, employment, servant, yeoman, workhouses, clerk, bastardy