Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Thomas and Rachel
Swain
Removal Order c. 1810
from West Langton, Leicestershire, to Desborough
Leicestershire to wit
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of West Langton in the said County of Leicester and to the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Desborough in
the County of Northampton and to each and every of them.
UPON the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the
Poor
of the Parish of West Langton aforesaid, in the said county of
Leicester unto us, whose names are hereunto set, and seals affixed,
being two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the
said county of Leicester and one of us of the Quorum, that Thomas
Swaine Rachel his Wife and
Sarah their daughter aged ten years, Elizabeth their daughter aged
eight years, James their Son aged Six years, Rowena their daughter
aged four years and Selina their daughter aged nine Months have
come to inhabit in the said Parish of West Langton not having gained a legal settlement there,
nor produced any
certificate, owning them to be settled elsewhere, and that
the said Thomas Swaine, Rachel his Wife and their said family are now
actually chargeable to
the Parish of West Langton.
We, the said Justices, upon due proof made thereof, as well upon
the examination of the said Thomas Swaine
The remainder of this document is missing, but as it was
amongst the parish documents at Desborough it is assumed that
the removal order was completed and executed. The date is
estimated from the ages of the children.