Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Thomas & Mary Howard
Settlement Certificate
from Great Oakley
11th July
1762
Northamptonshire
To wit. WE William Fissher and Joseph Cooper Church-Wardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Great Oakley in the County
of Northampton aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge Thomas
Howard and Mary his wife and his Two Children, towit, Mary and
John to be Our Inhabitants legally settled
in the Parish of Great Oakley aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have
hereunto set our Hands and Seals this Eleventh Day of July in
the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third by the
Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; and in the Year of
our Lord 17 Sixty Two.
Attested by us
Jeremiah Garner
John Bates
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William Fissher
Joseph Cooper
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To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Desborough in the said County of Northampton or to any or either
of them.
WE whose Names are hereunto subscribed, two of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of Northampton aforesaid, do
allow of the above-written Certificate. And we do also certify,
That Jeremiah Garner one of the Witnesses who attested the
Execution of the said Certificate, has made Oath before us, That
he did see the Church-wardens and Overseers, whose Names and
Seals are to the said Certificate subscribed and set, severally
sign and seal the said Certificate, and that the Names of the said
Jeremiah Garner and John Bates whose Names are subscribed as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing. Dated the
fourteenth
Day of July in the Year of our Lord 1762.
Thos Cecill Maunsell
T Hill
Note: Certificate was entered on a printed form
Desborough is about 5 miles west south west of Great Oakley