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Removal order for Hugh Doughty, Elizabeth his wife and their two children namely Joseph aged two years and John aged one year. Removed from Sharnbrook to Cardington.

29th June 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Removal order. Cartificate of chargeability stating they became chargeable 11th June 1844. Statement of Thomas Gell, Overseer of Sharnbrook, that Hugh Doughty, Elizabeth his wife and their two childen Joseph aged two years and John aged one year had become chargeable to Sharnbrook not having settlement there. Examination by Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Bedford Poor Law Guardians. Settlement examination of Hugh Doughty, at present residing in the workhouse of the Bedford Union: I am about twenty one years of age and have done no act to my knowledge to gain a settlement in my own right. I was married three years ago last May in the parish church of the parish of Sharnbrook in this County to Elizabeth Elderkin, spinster, my present wife by whom I have two children viz Joseph aged two years and John aged one year. I and my wife and our said two children are now maintained in the workhouse of the Bedford Union at the charge of the said parish of Sharnbrook and we have been there relieved since the 11th June instant peevious to which I was residing in and an inhabitant of the saif parish of Sharnbrook. I and my said wife and our said two children are the persons mentioned in the certificate now produced by Mr Samuel Wing. Examination of Robert Doughty of the parish of Sharnbrook, labourer: Hugh Doughty now present is my son by my late wife Sarah formerly Sarah Whitney, spinster, to whom I was lawfully married at the parish church of the parish of Sharnbrook about a fortnight before Old Michaelmas day 1809. My said son has done no act to gain a settlement in his own right. I am a settled inhabitant of the parish of Cardington. At Deadmans Cross Statute (which is held about a fortnight before Old Michaelmas day) in or about the year 1805 being then an unmarried person without child or children I was hired into the parish of Cardington in the County of Bedford by Mr Samuel Gifford of the same parish, farmer and maltster (now deceased) as under horsekeeper to serve him from Old Michaelmas Day then next following for one whole year at the wages of five guineas and my board & lodging. My Master when he hired me gave me half a crown earnest money and allowed me two days holiday. At the expiration of the two days I entered Mr Giffords service as agreed upon and I continued and abided in the same service until Old Michaelmas Day 1806 when my Master paid me my full wages and during my said service I resided and inhabited in the same parish of Cardington for 40 days and upwards until Old Michaelmas Day 1806. In the year 1828 I was residing in the said parish of Sharnbrook and being in distress I applied for relief to the Overseer of the said parish of Cardington. The Overseers were assembled for a Vestry Meeting held at the Kings Arms Inn in that parish when I made my application. It was on the first day of January in the same year. I stated my case and told them I was living at Sharnbrook - the Overseers acknowledged me as belonging to that parish by relieving me with the sum of two shillings which received from their hands on the account of the said parish of Cardington (Mr Conquest was one of the Overseers) although I was at the time residing at Sharnbrook. I have done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere. Memorandum that copies of the above documents were sent to Cardington 5 July 1844.

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Wing, Samuel,
Doughty, Hugh,
Doughty, Elizabeth,
Doughty, John,
Doughty, Joseph,
Doughty, Robert,
Doughty, Sarah,
Gell, Thomas,
Elderkin, Elizabeth,
Whitney, Sarah,
Gifford, Samuel,
Conquest

BEDFORD, CARDINGTON, SHARNBROOK, Deadman's Cross, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, clerk, workhouses, magistrate, employment, wages/conditions, farmer, horsekeeper, MARRIAGE, DEATH, maltster, Vestry, Cardington Kings Arms