Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBV34/2/76
  • Title
    Removal Order and settlement examination for Elizabeth Thurley, widow. Removed from St Mary, Bedford to Chigwell, Essex.
  • Date free text
    31st January 1845
  • Production date
    From: 1845 To: 1845
  • Scope and Content
    Removal Order for Elizabeth Thurley, widow. Removed from St Mary, Bedford to Chigwell, Essex. Certificate of Chargeability by Board of Guardians of the Bedford Union stating that Elizabeth Thurley had been chargeable to St Mary from 9th January 1845. Signed Isaac Elger, Chairman & Samuel Wing, Clerk. Examination of John Savage, Overseer of the Poor of St Mary, Bedford, stating that Elizabeth Thurley was chargeable to the parish but had no settlement there and requesting her removal to the place of her last legal settlement. Settlement examination of Elizabeth Thurley at present residing in the parish of St Mary, Bedford: I am the widow of John Thurley who died in the month of June 1820. I was married to him in the parish church of St Mary in this Borough 34 years last December. In the month of December 1817 I was residing in the parish of St Mary in this Borough and in consequence of my husband being confined in Hertford Gaol for debt I applied to the Overseers of the poor of the said parish of St Mary for relief which they allowed me and in a few days afterwards I was removed with my two children the issue of the marriage with my said husband Mary aged then about 6 years and Thomas aged then about 3 years by an order under the hands and seals of Charles Webb Esquire, Mayor, and Sir William Long, Knight, two Justices of the peace for this Borough from the said parish of St Mary to the parish of Chigwell in the County of Essex. Mr Samuel Negus now deceased conveyed us on behalf of the Overseers of St Mary by virtue of the said Order and delivered us to the Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Chigwell in the County of Essex, who received and provided for us. There was no appeal against the same order. A few days after the removal the overseers of Chigwell consented that I should return to Bedford with my children and they agreed to relieve me until my said husband was released from Custody with seven shillings a week which I received from the Overseers of Chigwell for eight weeks although I resided in the said parishof St Mary in the Borough of Bedford. At another time in the year 1818 I was residing with my husband in the parish of St John in this Borough when he became insane and was removed to the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Bedford. I again applied to the Overseers of Chigwell aforesaid for relief and they allowed me nine shillings a week until a year after his death when they reduced it to five shillings a week which they allowed me for six months longer and during the time I received this relief I resided in the said Borough of Bedford. I am about 58 years of age and am inhabiting in the parish of St Mary in this Borough. I am the person mentioned in the certificate of chargeablity now produced. Examination of Samuel Wing, Clerk to the Guardians pf the Poor for the Bedford Union: At the formation of the Bedford Union by order of the poor Law Commissioners the Directors of the poor withing the Town of Bedford in the County of Bedford who previously had the ordering and directing of the Poor in the same parish delivered into my custody the whole of the books papers and documents releting to the relief of the poor within the town of Bedford. I have made diligent and careful search amongst such papers and documents for the order for the removal of Elizabeth Thurley and her two children from the said parish of St Mary to the said parish of Chigwell in the County of Essex but have not found the same or any duplicate thereof. Memorandum that copies of the above were sent to the Overseers of Chigwell 19th February 1845.
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