PUBV34/2/63

Removal order and settlement examination for William Hughes aged 12 years, a bastard. Removed from Gamlingay to St Paul,. Bedford.

20th August 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Certificate of chargeability stating that William Hughes of Gamlingay became chargeable to the parish of Gamlingay in the County of Cambridge in the Caxton Division on 13th August 1844. Signed by Thomas St Quintin. Removal order for William Hughes, a bastard child aged 12 years or thereabouts, from Gamlingay to St Paul, bedford. Examination of John Hughes, now residing at Gamlingay, touching the place of the last legal settlement of his grandson William Hughes: William Hughes the pauper is now of the age of 12 years or thereabouts and is the bastard child of my late daughter Jemima Hughes who had not then ever been married. He was born in a house then occupied by Widow Tucker which was situate in the parish of St Paul in the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford on or about the 2nd March 1832. Whilst the said William Hughes was residing with me in the parish of Gamlingay and when he was about 6 weeks old my wife made application to the Overseers of the parish of St Paul, Bedford, to give him relief accordingly the overseers of St paul through a W Chapman allowed me 2/- a week for the support of the said William Hughes which I received for about a year and a half or two years while the said William Hughes was still residing with me at Gamlingay aforesaid. Then the relief was stopped for a twelvemonth. When I sent my wife to make application to the Overseers of St Paul for relief for the said William Hughes and while the said William Hughes was still residing at Gamlingay and soon after that the Overseers allowed me 1/6 a week which I received up to seven years ago last May since which time I have had no relief from the Overseers of St Paul but upon my sending over again soon after William Chapman told me that i might send the pauper to the Union Workhouse which I did not then think proper to do. I am now through age and infirmity unable to support the said William Hughes and he is now living with me and is actually chargeable to the parish of Gamlingay. The examination of William Holder, Relieving officer for the Caxton & Arrington Poor Law Union: I was present at the Board Room of teh guardians of the Poor of the Caxton & Arrington Poor Law Union on 20th August instant and did then and there see Thomas St Quintin junior the Vice Chairman of the said Board countersign the certificate of the chargeability of William Hughes hereunto annexed and affix the seal of the said guardians thereto. Receipt for 4s & 6d paid to the Overseers of Gamlingay by the Overseers of St Paul with 'refreshment for boy' extra of 3d.

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Wing, Samuel,
Hughes, William,
Hughes, Jemima,
Hughes, John,
Tucker,
Quintin, Thomas Saint,
Chapman, William,
Holder, William

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