PUBV34/2/86

Removal Order and settlement examination for Betsey Wright, widow, and her two children Elizabeth aged 2 years and William aged 8 months. Removed from Eaton Socon to Keysoe.

2nd August 1845

From: 1845 To: 1845

Removal Order for Betsey Wright, widow, and her two children Elizabeth aged 2 years and William aged 8 months. Removed from Eaton Socon to Keysoe. Settlement examination of Betsey Wright, widow, at present residing in the parish of Eaton Socon in the County of Bedford: I am the widow of William Wright who died on the 15th June last. I was married to him in the parish church of Eaton Socon in this County on the 13th November 1842 by my maiden name of Betsey Peck, spinster. There are two children the issue of the marriage namely Elizabeth aged two years and William aged eight months. My husband never did any act to my knowledge to gain a settlement in his own right. I and my said children are now chargeable to the parish of Eaton Socon. Examination of Joseph Wright of Eaton Socon, labourer: William Wright the late husband of Betsey Wright was my son by my wife Elizabeth formerly Elizabeth Myers, spinster to whom I was lawfully married in the parish church of Eaton Socon on 4th November 1822. My said son was born in the parish of Eaton Socon 17th January 1823. He never did any act to my knowledge to gain a settlement in his own right. I belong to the parish of Keysoe in this County which settlement I derive from my late father William Wright who was an acknowledge pauper of the said parish of Keysoe having been at the time of his death which took place in the parish of Eaton Socon aforesaid in September 1836 in the receipt of weekly relief from that parish during his residence at Eaton Socon. The parish Officers of Keysoe have also given relief to me upon several occasions whilst I was residing in the parish of Eaton Socon, the last of which was an application I made about 18 years ago to the late Mr William Carrington the then acting Overseer from whom I received relief repeatedly during the period of my sickness which lasted 11 weeks, my son William was then about 5 yeras old. The last relief I received from the Parish of Keysoe was 5 shillings which Mr William Carrington paid to me. Certificate of Chargeability by Board of Guardians of the St Neots Union stating that Betsey Wright, widow, aged 25 years and her two children Elizabeth aged 2 years and William aged 8 months had been chargeable to Eaton Socon from 31st July 1845. Signed Richard Latham, Chairman & George Day, Clerk. Examination of Christopher Wilson, Overseer of Eaton Socon, stating that Betsey Wright, widow, and her two children Elizabeth aged 2 years and William aged 8 months, was inhabiting in the parish without a legal settlement there and requesting their removal.

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Wright, Betsey,
Wright, William,
Wright, Elizabeth,
Wright, Joseph,
Carrington, William,
Myers, Elizabeth,
Peck, Betsey,
Latham, Richard,
Day, George,
Wilson, Christopher

BEDFORD, EATON SOCON, KEYSOE, St Neots, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Poor Law Unions, Settlement, removal, relieving officer, Overseers, churchwardens, clerk, workhouses, magistrate, labourer, illness, MARRIAGE, DEATH