Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1845/1/9/1/a
  • Title
    Removal order - Thomas Cox, his wife Fanny and three children (Jane aged 4, Eliza aged 2 and a female infant born last September) to be removed from Knotting to Dean.
  • Date free text
    31 December 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1845
  • Scope and Content
    Examinations ----------------- George Hine, one of the overseers of the poor of the parish of Knotting – Thomas Cox, Fanny his wife and their 3 children have become chargeable to the parish of Knotting without having gained legal settlement there – complaint certified by Board of Guardians of Bedford Union (19 October 1844) Thomas Cox – he is over 25 years of age. He was married in the parish church of Knotting in December 1839 to his present wife Fanny, formerly Maxey, by whom he has 3 children (as above). He is the illegitimate son of Jane Cox who died in or about 1828 when he was about 9 years of age. After his mother’s death he continued to reside in the parish of Knotting with his grandfather William Cox. From that time until 1833 he was relieved by Mr George Hine with 2s per week except in the last year when he received only 1s per week. He has done nothing to gain a settlement in his own right. George Hine of Knotting, farmer – in 1823 he was one of the overseers of the poor of the parish of Knotting. Thomas Cox at that time resided in the parish. In June 1823 he was requested by Mr Elias Boswell Collett, one of the overseers of Dean, by a note in writing which he now produces, to relieve Thomas Cox on behalf of the parish of Dean with 2s per week. He paid this for over 10 years for the parish officers of Dean. The amount he expended was always repaid to him. During the greater part of the time for which he received such relief Thomas Cox resided in the parish of Knotting. [Copy of note from E B Collett transcribed below] Thomas Henry Cullen of Dean, police constable - on 20 October he delivered to Elias Collett a notice (now produced) requiring the churchwardens and overseers of Dean to produce and show to the Justices of the Peace assembled at the Petty Sessions the books containing the entries of the relief adminstered to poor persons chargeable upon the Poor Rates of the parish of Dean from 1816 to 1830. The said churchwardens and overseers have neglected to appear or to produce the books as required.
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