PUBV34/2/16

Removal order and settlement examinations regarding the place of settlement for John Skerman and Edith his wife. Removed from St Cuthbert, Bedford to Hitchin.

13 April 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Removal Order. Bedford union Certificate of Chargeability 13th March 1843. Examination of Benjamin Everitt, Overseer of the Poor of St Cuthbert stating that John Sherman & his wife Edith were chargeable. Examination of Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Guardians of the Poor of the Bedford Poor Law Union: I produce an order under the hands and seals of Charles Short, Esquire, Mayor and Philip Hunt, Clerk Doctor of Laws as Justices of the Peace for the Town of Bedford bearing date 18th June 1827 whereby William Skerman was ordered to be removed from the parish of St Cuthbert in the town of Bedford to the parish of Hitchin in the County of Hertford. The above order I received from the Directors of the Poor within the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford on the formation of the Bedford Unions, and it has been in my custody ever since. Examination of John Skerman: I am about 70 years of age. In the month of October 1802 I was married in the parish church of St Peter in this Borough to Edith Stock, spinster my present wife. I am a settled inhabitant of the parish of Hitchin in the County of Hertford which settlement I derived from my late fatehr John Skerman. The parish officers of Hitchin have upon several occasions acknowledged my settlement. In the month of June 1827 my late son William Skerman the issue of the above marriage became chargeable to the parish of St Cuthbert in this Borough and not having gained a settlement in his own right the order of Justices now produced by Mr Wing was obtained for his removal to the said parish of Hitchin as the place of my legal settlement. My son was removed under that order by Mr Potto the Governor of the Bedford House of Industry and was received and provided for by the parish officers of Hitchin. There was no appeal from the said order. My son shortly afterwards returned to bedford and being ill the parish officers of Hitchin allowed him regular weekly relief to the time of his death he all the time residing with me in the said parish of St Cuthbert. In the summer of about the year 1829 being then resident in the parish of St Cuthbert I met with an accident and was taken to Bedford Infirmary. An application was made to the parish officers of Hitchin for relef for my wife and they allowed me for several weeks 4 shillings per week which was afterwards reduced to two shillings per week I and my said wife all the time residing in the Borough. The relef was continued during a quarter of a year that I was in the Infirmary and 4 or 5 weeks afterwards. I have done no act since to gain a settlemet. I amd my said wife ate the persons referred to in the certificate of chargeability produced by Mr Samuel Wing.

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Skerman, John,
Skerman, Edith,
Skerman, William,
Everitt, Benjamin,
Wing, Samuel,
Potto,
Stock, Edith

BEDFORD, Hitchin, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, employment, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, clerk, DEATH, illness, House of Industry, Bedford Infirmary