PUBV34/2/36

Removal order & Settlement Examination for Maria Vinsen, singlewoman. Removed from St Paul, Bedford to St Mary, Bury St Edmunds.

10 November 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Removal Order. Certificate of Chargeability - chargeable from 21st October 1843 Examination of Robert Wootton, Overseer of St Paul certifying above certificate. Examinations by Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Bedford Board of Guardians: Examination of Maria Vinsen, at present residing in Bedford Workhouse: I am about 22 years of age and am a single woman. I have done no act in my own right to gain a settlement. I am the person named in the certificate of chargeability now produced. and am now actually chargeable to the parish of St Paul in the Borough of Bedford. Examination of Samuel Knowles: I am collector of Poor's Rates for the parish of St Benedict in the town of Cambridge. I produce an order bearing date 26th April 1826 under the hands and seals of John Purchas, Mayor and William Coe, two Justices of the peace for the town of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge, whereby Thomas Vinson, Maria aged 4 years and Marianne aged one year is children was ordered to be removed from the said parish of St Benedict to the parish of St Mary in the town of Bury St Edmunds in the County of Suffolk. The order was suspended on the same day and the suspension discharged 26th June the next ensuing when the costs incurred by the suspension of the order amounting to five pounds twelve shillings were duly ascertained and subsequently paid by the Overseers of the said parish of St mary to te Overseers of the said parish of St Benedict. There was no appeal against the said order. I obtained the said order from the parish chest of the said parish of St Benedict. Mr Purchas and Mr Coe were two Justices of the peace of the town of Cambridge. They are now both dead. The names John Purchas, Mayor and William Coe respectively set and subscribed to the said orders of removal I believe to be the respective handwriting of the said John Purchas and William Coe. Thomas Vinsen on his oath sayeth: The above named Maria Vinsen is my daughter by my late wife Elizabeth, formerly Elizabeth Coping, spinster, to whom I was lawfully married in the parish church of St George in the Borough of Southwark, Surrey in the month of November in or about the year 1820. I am a settled inhabitant of the parish of St Mary in the town of Bury St Edmunds in the County of Suffolk. In the month of April 1826 I was residing in the parish of St Benedict in the town of Cambridge and with my two children (of whom my said daughter Maria was one) became chargeable to that parish and I and my said two children Maria and Marianne were in the month of June following by the order of two Justices of the Broough of Cambridge removed by Mr Swann, one of the parish officers of St Benedicts aforesaid to the parish of St Mary in the town of Bury St Edmunds in the County of Suffolk. I and my said children were delivered by Mr Swann to the Overseers of the parish of St Mary who received and provided for us. I only remained there two or three days, but my two children remained there three years and I fetched them away. In that order I am erroneously called Vinson. There was no appeal against the order. I have done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, Copy of 1826 removal order of Thomas Vinsen, Maria & Marianne his children.

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Vinsen, Maria,
Vinsen, Marianne,
Vinsen, Thomas,
Vinsen, Elizabeth,
Coping, Elizabeth,
Wootton, Robert,
Wing, Samuel,
Purchas, John,
Coe, William,
Knowles, Samuel,
Swann

BEDFORD, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Southwark, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, clerk, workhouses, DEATH, MARRIAGE