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Removal order and Settlement examination for William Head, Sarah his wife and their children Henry aged 12 years and Hannah aged 10 years. Removed from Northill to Keysoe.

13 March 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Removal order for William Head, Sarah his wife and their children Henry aged 12 years and Hannah aged 10 years. Removed from Northill to Keysoe. Order suspended as William Head not fit to travel due to sickness. Examination of William Head, an infirm poor person at present inhabiting and chargeable to the parish of Northill in the said County taken on oath before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County acting in and for the Biggleswade Division of the said County this 12th day of March 1844 out of sessions in consequence of the inability from illness of the said William Head to attend the Petty Sessions to be examined touching the place of his last legal settlement. The said William Head saieth: When I was about 23 years of age, unmarried and without child or children namely in the year 1810 about a fortnight before Michaelmas I was hired into the parish of Keysoe in the County of Bedford by Mr Alexander Bottle, then of that parish, farmer to serve him as a shepherd for one year from Micahelmas day then following at £12 a year wages and I received one shilling as earnest. I accordingly went into Mr Bottles service that Michaelmas and served with him the whole of that year and I continued to serve him in the same capacity for two more years up to Michaelmas 1813 receiving my wages and one shilling as earnest money at the commencement of each year. During that time I resided and slept in my Masters house in the parish of Keysoe aforesaid. About 5 weeks after Michaelmas 1813 I was married to my present wife Sarah (then Sarah Russell, spinster) at the parish church of Pilton in the County of Northampton. and I have four children by her who are still single and living at home with me namely Thomas aged 21, Joseph aged 18, Henry aged 12 and Hannah aged 10 years. I am now residing in the parish of Northill in the Biggleswade Union in the County of Bedford and am chargeable to that parish. I have never to my knowledge done any act to gain a settlement since I left Mr Bottles service. I am now from illness and infirmity unable to go to Petty Sessions to be examined as to my settlement. X mark of William Head. Sworn before me, John Harvey, JP. Witnessed by Edward Argles. Examination of Frank Snitch, Relieving Officer of the Biggleswade Union: William Head and Sarah his wife and their two children above named are now residing in the said parish of Northill and are now and have been for some time past chargeable to the said parish and receiving weekly relief from the poor rates thereof by order of the said Board of Guardians by reason of the illness and infirmity of the said WIlliam Head. Examination of Charles Nicholas, one of the Overseers of Northill: William Head, Sarah his wife and their children Henry aged 12 years and Hannah aged 10 years have come to inhabit the said parish of Northill not having gained any legal settlement there and have become and still are chargeable thereto. Removal order William Head, Sarah his wife and their children Henry aged 12 years and Hannah aged 10 years. Removed from Northill to Keysoe. Order suspended as William Head not fit to travel due to sickness. Keysoe to pay Northill £4 10s.

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Head, William,
Head, Sarah,
Head, Thomas,
Head, Joseph,
Head, Hannah,
Head, Henry,
Bottle, Alexander,
Harvey, John,
Argles, Edward,
Snitch, Frank,
Nicholas, Charles

BEDFORD, KEYSOE, NORTHILL, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, clerk, workhouses, employment, illness, MARRIAGE, shepherd, farmer, wages/conditions