Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBV34/2/29
  • Title
    Examination and removal order for John Bonfield and Sarah his wife. Removed from Stow, County of Huntingdon, to Keysoe.
  • Date free text
    5 August 1843
  • Production date
    From: 1843 To: 1843
  • Scope and Content
    Examination of Robert Mash the elder, Overseer of Stow: John Bonfield and Sarah his said wife have come to inhabit the said Parish of Stow in the said County of Huntingdon not having gained any legal settlement there and have become and still are actually chargeable thereto. The said Robert Mash prays order of Justices to remove them. Examination of William Ennals, Relieving Officer of St Neots Poor Law Union: The said parish of Stow is in the County of Huntingdon is part of that Union. In the said parish of Stow the laws for the relief of the poor are administered by a Board of Guardians of the said Union. I produce a certificate bearing date 3rd August of this present year signed by Mar[?] Welstead Esquire, the presiding Chairman of the Board of the Guardians at a meeting held on the 3rd August of this present year the said certificate is sealed with the seal of the said Guardians and countersigned by George Day as their clerk wherein it is certified that the said John Bonfield and Sarah his wife became on the 13th April 1843 and until 3rd August continued chargeable to that parish. Certificate as mentioned above enclosed. Examination of John Bonfield: I am about 73 years of age and was born in the parish of Riseley in the County of Bedford as I have been informed and believe. When I was about 17 years of age being then unmarried and having no child or children I let myself at Riseley Staute about the year 1787 a little before Michaelmas Day to the late Mr Claridge of Keysoe Park farm in the parish of Keysoe in the County of Bedford as a servant in husbandry for a year from Old Michaelmas Day being 11th October the next ensuing at the wages of three pounds ten shillings and my board and lodging. I entered Mr Claridge's service under the said hiring accordingly and continued in the same service for one whole year all the time residing in my said Master's house in the parish of Keysoe. At the expiration of the said years service I received the full amount of my said years wages and continued in the service of my said master for a fortnight or three weeks after the expiration of the said years service until Mr Claridge suited himself with another servant. I was married in the parish church of Stow by Banns in or about theyear 1800 to Sarah Mobbs, widow, my present wife . About three years after my said marriage and whilst resident in the said parish of Stow I received parish relief from Mr John Hills one of the Overseers of the said parish of Keysoe for a considerable period. I have done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere since the said hiring and service with Mr Claridge in the parish of Keysoe. I am now with my said wife actually chargeable to the said parish of Stow.
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