PUBV34/2/42

Removal order & Settlement Examination for Robert Goddard, Mary his wife and their five children viz Thomas aged 17 years, James aged 12 years, Robert aged 9 years, Henry William aged 6 years and Mary Ann aged 3 years. Removed from St Paul, Bedford to St Andrew the Great, Cambridge.

19 January 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Removal Order. Examination of Robert Wootton, Overseer of St Paul, Bedford stating that they are chargeable to the parish. Certificate of Chargeability stating that they were chargeable from 2nd January 1844. Examinations of Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Guardians of the Bedford Poor Law Union: Examination of Robert Goddard at present residing in the workhouse of the Bedford Union: A few days before Old Michaelmas Day in the year 1827, I hired of Mr Wicks, Cook at Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge for the term of a year commencing from Old Michaelmas Day next following a tenement consisting of a separate and distict dwelling house situate in Blue Lion Yard leading from St Andrews Street in the parish of St Andrew the Great in the Borough of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge at the rent of ten pounds ten shillings payable quarterly. I occupied the said house under the said hiring from Old Michaelmas Day 1827 until Old Michaelmas Day 1828 being the space of one whole year and I actually paid the said yearly rent of ten pounds ten shillings to the said Mr Wicks for the term of one year and during my said tenancy. I resided and inhabited in the said dwelling house. Without any fresh agreement I I continued to occupy the said tenement at the said yearly rent of ten pounds ten shillings of the said Mr Wicks during the two following years until Old Michaelmas Day 1830 and I paid the said yearly rent continuously for each and every year of my tenancy (excepting the last quarter). About five years ago I and my wife and family were residing in the parish of St Giles in the Borough of Cambridge and being out seeking for work became chargeable to that parish and were thereupon removed by the order of two Justices of the Peace of the Borough of Cambridge from the parish of St Giles to the parish of St Andrew the Great and my wife and family were received into the workhouse of the Cambridge Union and maintained there at the expense of the said parish of St Andrew the Great. I was married to my wife Mary formerly Mary Jarvis, spinster, at the parish church of St Andrew the Great on 11th February 1826 by whom I have issue five children viz Thomas aged 17 years, James aged 12 years, Robert aged 9 years, Henry William aged 6 years and Mary Ann aged 3 years I and my said wife and children are now actually chargeable to the parish of St Paul in the Borough of Bedford and are the persons on the certificate of chargeability.

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Goddard, Robert,
Goddard, Mary,
Goddard, Thomas,
Goddard, James,
Goddard, Henry William,
Goddard, Mary Ann,
Wootton, Robert,
Jarvis, Mary,
Wing, Samuel

BEDFORD, Cambridge, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, clerk, workhouses, employment, tenancy, rentals, MARRIAGE