Desborough Study : Settlement Records
John & Martha Ward
Settlement Examination 12th Mar 1847
Examination of William Pain
County of Northampton to wit.
The examination of William Pain of Brampton Ash in the said
County Relieving Officer touching the last place of legal Settlement of John Ward
and Martha Ward his wife and his two children Elizabeth Ward and
Matilda Ward taken on oath before us two of her Majesty's
Justices of the peace in and for the said County this twelfth
day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and forty seven upon a certain complaint upon oath made on
behalf of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said parish of
Desborough unto us that the said John Ward and Martha Ward his
wife and their said two children have come to inhabit and are
now inhabiting in the said parish not having resided in the said
parish for five years next before the said Application and
Complaint and not having gained a Settlement therein nor having
produced any Certificate acknowledging them to be settled
elsewhere, and that the said John Ward and Martha Ward his wife
and their said two children are now actually chargeable to the
said parish.
The said William Pain upon his oath saith that I am Relieving
Officer of the ete[?] 2. District of the Market Harborough Union
in which District and Union the parish of Ashley is comprised. I
produce a Relief Book of the Market Harborough Union commencing
the twenty first day of September one thousand eight hundred and
thirty six and ending the twenty fifth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and thirty seven. There are in that Book entries
of relief given to Elizabeth Ward of which true copies are
hereto annexed. I know Elizabeth Ward the person named in those
entries is the mother of the Pauper John Ward. The relief was
given by order of the Board of Guardians and was continued for
several years the amount being reduced from time to time by
order of the Board as the family grew up until the twenty first
day of September 1844 when the relief stopped altogether. I used
to give the relief to the Daughter of the said Elizabeth Ward
who came to me at Ashley for it, and sometimes I gave it to her
Son John Ward the Pauper, but afterwards I went to Stoke Albany
and gave her the relief there myself. Elizabeth Ward was
receiving relief from the parish of Ashley whilst residing at
Stoke Albany before the formation of the Market Harborough
Union, and the relief was continued and regularly given to the
said Elizabeth Ward from the Commencement of the said Market
Harborough Union to the twenty first day of September 1844 as
before mentioned. All the relief given to the said Elizabeth
Ward was charged to the parish of Ashley.
Taken Signed and Sworn the day
and
year first above written
By and
before us
the Said Justices |
W Pain |
W B Stopford
I Wetherall |
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