Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBV34/2/68
  • Title
    Removal order and settlement examination for Thomas Cox, Fanny his wife and their three children Jane aged 4 years, Eliza aged 2 years and a female infant born in the month of September last. Removed from Knotting to Dean.
  • Date free text
    22nd October 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1844
  • Scope and Content
    Removal order for Thomas Cox, Fanny his wife and their three children Jane aged 4 years, Eliza aged 2 years and a female infant born in the month of September last. Certificate of Chargeabililty stating thay have been chargeable since 12th October 1844. Signed by Charles Longuet Higgins and Samuel Wing. Examination of George Hine, Overseer of Knotting, stating that Thomas Cox, Fanny his wife and their three children Jane aged 4 years, Eliza aged 2 years and a female infant born in the month of September last were chargeable to Knotting but had no legal settlement there. Settlement examination of Thomas Cox at present residing in the parish of Knotting: I am about 25 years of age. I was married in the parish church of Knotting in the County of Bedford in the month of December 1839 to my present wife Fanny formerly Fanny Maxey, spinster by whom I have issue three children viz Jane aged 4 years, Eliza aged 2 years and a female infant born in the month of September last. I am the illegitimate son of Jane Cox who died in about the year 1828. I was then about 9 years of age. After my mothers death I continued to reside in the parish of Knotting with my grandfather William Cox and from that time until 1933 I was relieved by Mr George Hine with two shillings per week except the last year when I received only one shilling per week. I and my said wife and three children are the persons mentioned in the Certificate of Chargeability. I have done no act to gain a settlement in my own right. Note: Mr Colletts compliments to mr Hine. Would be much obliged to Mr Hine if he would have the goodness to pay Cox 2 shillings per week beginning Saturday June 14th 1823. Mr Hine shall receive the money, at anytime he pleases. Signed E B Collett, Overseer. Above attached to Examination of George Hine of Knotting, farmer: In the year 1823 I was one of the Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Knotting in teh County of Bedford. Thomas Cox, the pauper now present at that time resided in the said parish of Knotting. In the month of June 1823 I was requested by Mr Elias Boswell Collett one of the overseers of Dean to relieve the said Thomas Cox for and on behalf of the said parish of Dean with the two shillings per week as I might think proper. I paid the amount for upwards of 10 years for the parish officers of Dean, and the amount which I expended on him was always repaid to me. During the greater part of the time for which I received such relief the said Thomas Cox resided in the parish of Knotting. Examination of Thomas Henry Cullen of the parish of Dean, Constable of Police: On Monday 20th October instant I personally delivered to Elias Collett, one of the Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Dean in the County of Bedford on behalf of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the parish of Knotting a notice in writing, a copy of which I now produce, requiring the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Dean to produce and shew forth to such of her Majestys Justices of the Peace for the town of Bedford as should be assembled as a Petty Session to be holden here this day the books containing the entries of relief administered by the said Churchwardens and Overseers of Dean aforesaid to poor persons chargeable upon the Poor Rates of the parish of Dean from the year 1816 to the year 1830, both inclusive but the said Churchwardens and Overseers have neglected to appear or to produce them. Memorandum of documents sent to Dean 31 October 1844.
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