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Removal order and settlement examination for Mary Nichols, widow and her four children John aged 10 years, Anthony aged 8 years, William aged 4 years and Elizabeth aged 3 years. Removed from Marston Moretaine to Wootton.

11 May 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Two copies of Removal Order. Examination of Thomas Bennett, Overseer of Marston Moretaine: The above names Mary Nichols and her said four children have come to inhabit in the said parish of Marston Moretaine not having gained any legal settlement there and are now actually chargeable thereto. Thomas Bennett therefore prays the Order of us the said Justices to remove the said Mary Nichols and her said four children to the place of their last legal settlement. Examination of George Robinson, Clerk to the Guardians of the Poor of the Ampthill Union in the County of Bedford: The parish of Marston Moretaine in the County of Bedford is part of that Union and in the said parish the laws for the relief of the poor are administered by a Board of the said Guardians. I produce a certificate bearing date the 20th April last signed by Thomas William Overman the presiding Chairman of the Board of the said Guardians at a meeting held on 20th April last and sealed with the seal of the said Guardians and countersigned by me as the Clerk wherein it is certified that the said Mary Nichols became on the 8th April last and had thence until 20th April the date of the said certificate continued chargeable to that parish. Examination of Robert Henry Gibbon of the town of Dover in the County of Kent, gentleman touching on the place of the legal settlement of Mary Nichols, widow a poor person chargeable to the parish of Marston Moretaine: I was present and saw William Nicholls and Henry Haynes severally sign seal and as their several acts and deeds in due form of law deliver certain Indentures of Apprenticeship which I now produce bearing date 27th December 1824 whereby the said William Nichols (therein described as a poor boy of the age of 15 years or thereabouts) by and with the consent of the Trustees of the Marston Charity (being a public charity for putting out poor children apprentice) did put and bind himself apprentice to the said henry Haynes (therein described as Henry Haynes of the parish of Wootton in the County of Bedford, blacksmith to serve the said Henry Haynes as an apprentice from the day of the date of the said Indenture for the term of seven years and that the mark or a sign X set to the first seal affixed to the same Indentures is the proper mark or sign and was made by the hand of the said William Nichols and the names Henry Haynes set and subscribed opposite to the second seal affixed to the said Indenture is of the handwriting of the said Henry Haynes and the words 'the mark of William Nichols' written opposite the said first seal and the names R H Gibbon to the same Indenture set and subscribed as the attesting witness to the execution thereof is my own handwriting. Examination of Mary Nichols at present residing in Marston Moretaine: I was born at the parish of Wootton in this County on the 6th October 1808 as I have been informed and believe. My maiden name was Mary Andrew by which name I was married to my late husband William Nichols at the parish church of the said parish of Wootton on 29th July 1831. We were both at that time residing at that parish. I resided with my father Thomas Andrew. I became acquainted with my late husband soon after he came apprentice to Wootton. I have often heard him speak of his age and I have heard him say that he was born on 5th March 1809. He appeared to me about 16 or 17 years of age when I first knew him. From the time I first knew him to within a few weeks of our marriage he worked first for Henry Haynes of the parish of Wootton, blacksmith and afterwards with Joseph Haynes his son. My husband was apprenticed by the Marston Charity to Henry Haynes as I have heard him say. I frequently saw my husband serving Henry Haynes as his apprentice until he was out of his apprenticeship. I saw my husband almost daily doing some work for his Master sometimes working at his Masters trade as his shop at Wootton and during that time he slept at his Master's house in the parish of Wootton except occasionally when he went to assist his Masters son at Woburn where he has sometime s been for three or four weeks together. I don't think my husband had been away from Wootton for several weeks before the end of his apprenticeship. I have every reason to believe he was at home at that time. After my husband had served his apprenticeship he was hired to serve his Master's son Joseph Haynes who had succeeded to the business at Wootton as I have heard my husband say. He continued in the service of Joseph Haynes at Wootton until we were married which was in about a year and a half. My husband died in the said parish of Marston Moretaine on 29th March last. I have four children by him all of whom are living viz John aged 10 years Anthony aged 8 years, William aged 4 years and Elizabeth aged 2 years and I and my said children are all now actually chargeable to the parish of Marston Moretaine.

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Nichols, Mary,
Nichols, William,
Nichols, John,
Nichols, Anthony,
Nichols, Elizabeth,
Bennett, Thomas,
Robinson, George,
Gibbon, Robert Henry,
Haynes, Henry,
Haynes, Joseph,
Andrew, Mary,
Andrew, Thomas

BEDFORD, MARSTON MORETAINE, WOOTTON, WOBURN, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, employment, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, MARRIAGE, DEATH, clerk, apprenticeship, Sutton Marston Charity, blacksmith