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Future Publications Marriage Allegations in the Diocese of Gloucester, Vol. II, edited by Brian Frith. Local Government in Gloucestershire, 1775-1800: A Study of the Justices of the Peace, by Esther Moir. v This volume is issued under the terms of the legacy of the late Alfred Bruce Robinson for the printing of Bristol and Gloucestershire parish records. I
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vii FOREWORD Cheltenham Settlement Examinations, 1815-1826, is the seventh in a series of volumes published by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society in accordance with the terms of a legacy left by the late Mr. Alfred Bruce Robinson. Responsibility for publication was entrusted by the Society to a Records Section which has already produced two volumes of Marriage Licences and Marriage Allegations and two volumes of parish registers, records in which the late Mr. Robinson was particularly interested. In addition, it has issued a complete guide to the parish records of Bristol and Gloucestershire, and earlier this year it published the Church Book of St. Ewen's, Bristol, which contains a wealth of material relating to the life of an important Bristol parish in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Records Section wishes to express its thanks to Mr. Irvine Gray, Past President of the Society, who has rendered so many valuable services to historical and archaeological studies and who has now made available a calendar of the settlement papers of Cheltenham relating to a particularly interesting period in its history. His book is all the more welcome because settlement examinations, in spite of their great interest in relation to movements of population and the life of the poorer sections of the community, have not hitherto been published by Record Societies. Another volume of Marriage Allegations in the Diocese of Gloucester is in an advanced stage of preparation under the terms of Mr. Robinson’s legacy. The Society has now decided to authorize the Records Section to publish from time to time records other than parish records. For this purpose, cost of publication will be met from general funds and not from the Robinson Bequest. The additional volumes will include not only archive material but also works based on a detailed study of records. The first volume to be published will be Local Government in Gloucestershire, 1775-1800: A Study of the fustices of the Peace, by Esther Moir. Patrick McGrath, Hon. General Editor.
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INTRODUCTION xiii
NOTES ON THE OFFICIATING JUSTICES .. xxii
NOTE ON THE FORM OF ABSTRACTS OF EXAMINATIONS . . XXIV
CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS I
INDEX 95
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INTRODUCTION The Law of Settlement Under the system of poor relief created by the celebrated Elizabethan Acts of 1597 and 1601, overseers of the poor were to be appointed annually for every parish by the justices of the peace, and were to provide work or maintenance for the indigent poor. Funds were to be provided out of parish rates. ‘Wherever a pauper became unable to support himself, there he had to be maintained.’1 Half a century later, when the Civil War had seriously increased the numbers and mobility of the poorer classes, ‘some defects in the law concerning the settling of the poor’ had become apparent. The preamble to the Act of Settlement, 1662,2 complains that ‘poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to bum and destroy; and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds, to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it [stc] is liable to be devoured by strangers’.3 It was accordingly enacted that any persons coming to settle in a parish, in any tenement under the yearly value of £10, might, if considered likely to become chargeable to the parish, be removed by order of two justices to the place where they were legally settled, ‘either as a native, householder, sojourner, apprentice, or servant’. There was a right of appeal to Quarter Sessions. Thus was founded the law of settlement, to which the poor were subjected for the next two hundred years. Later Acts introduced modifications. In 16914 several means of acquiring a legal settlement were defined: serving a parish office, paying parish rates, being apprenticed in the parish, and serving a year’s hiring in it if un married and childless. Ownership of an estate, however small, also conferred settlement by virtue of decisions of the court.5 To determine the place of settlement a deposition on oath called an ‘examination’ was made by the pauper before two justices of the peace. 1 A. F. Vulliamy, The Law of Settlement and Removal (1895), Introduction, p. 1. 1 14 Car. II, cap. 12. 3 It is difficult to say whether there was any evidence to support this asser tion; perhaps what lay behind the Act was the desire of the London parishes to check the influx of those who might become a burden on the rates. 4 3 Wm. & Mary, cap. 11. 5 From 1723, by 9 Geo. I, cap. 7, property purchased had to be worth at least Z3O. xiii CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 Successive legislation, as the author of The Parish Chest observes, 'seems to have been designed in general to deal with abuses in the existing system, and to ensure that some regard was paid to the claims of humanity in its administration’.1 Meanwhile, throughout the 18th century, disputes between parishes over settlement cases occupied much of the time of Quarter Sessions, and consumed in legal costs vast sums of money which might more usefully have been devoted to the relief of the poor. Typical of this warfare is a caustic note found on a settlement certificate of 1789 from Minchin- hampton to Bisley (both Gloucestershire parishes): 'Gentlemen, As we understand you are going to remove such of our parishioners as reside in your parish home, we therefore think it necessary to hint to you that we have numbers of familys of yours residing with us which will afford us an ample field for example.’2 From 1697 poor persons were authorized to take up their abode in another parish on production of a certificate, from their parish of legal settlement, undertaking to receive them back if they became a charge on the poor rate. But it was not until 1795 that Parhament effected any radical reform of the settlement laws. The Act of that year3 'to prevent the removal of poor persons until they shall become actually chargeable’ put an end at last to the forcible repatriation of respectable people who were thought ‘likely to become chargeable to the parish'. As the preamble to the Act has it, ‘many industrious poor persons, chargeable to the parish, township or place where they five, merely from want of work there, would in any other place, where sufficient employment is to be had, maintain themselves and families without being burdensome to any parish, township or place; and . . . the labour of such poor persons might, in many instances, be very beneficial to such parish . . .’. This new concern for the mobility of labour must, no doubt, be associated with the developing industrial revolution as well as with the demands of the war-effort against France. At the same time, however, humanitarian feelings were coming into play, for another section of the same Act provided that the removal of sick persons, even vagrants, might be suspended by order of a justice until they were fit to travel.4 By 49 George III, cap. 124 (1809) this clemency was extended to their wives .and families, so that they should not be forcibly separated. In course of time the ways in which a settlement could be gained were variously modified. The courts decided that a wife should take the settlement of her husband, children that of their parent.
1 W. E. Tate, The Parish Chest (1946), p. 192. 1 Bisley Parish records, Gloucestershire Records Office, P. 47 OV 3/1/2. 3 35 Geo. Ill, cap. 101. 4 Cf., in 1669, Twyning (Glos.) parish accounts (G.R.O., P. 343 VE 2/1): 'To Sammuell Vinant on a hand-barrow & to of his grandchildren with him— gave him 6d.—conveying him away 6d.—in all is.’ xiv CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 Settlement by hiring and service and settlement by serving as a parish officer were abolished in 1834. Finally, as late as 1876, it was enacted that a settlement should be given by three consecutive years' residence in a parish without receiving poor relief. Forty years earlier, however, the old Poor Law had been superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (4 and 5 Wm. IV, cap. 76), which created the Poor Law Commissioners and ended the old parochial system by grouping parishes in ‘unions’ for poor relief purposes. In 1846 it was laid down that a pauper should be irre movable by virtue of uninterrupted residence in a union for five years, a period later reduced to three years and finally to one year.1 This did not confer a settlement; the parish of legal settlement remained liable for the cost of relief to the pauper. But it did in effect put an end to the removal of respectable paupers from parish to parish, to which they had been liable since 1662. Vagrants applying for poor relief continued to be removable to the workhouse of the union in which their place of legal settlement was situated. It remains to mention the special legislative provisions for Scottish and Irish paupers. By a statute of 1845 (8 & 9 Viet., cap. 117) persons bom in Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Scilly, or the Channel Islands, and not settled in England, were removable to such places by authority of the Board of Guardians if they became chargeable to any parish in England. Their wives, even if bom in England, could be removed with them, and also their ‘unemancipated’ children, i.e. any who had not attained the age of 21, married, or otherwise acquired settlements in their own right. The reason for this legislation was the large influx of poor persons from Scotland and Ireland, presumably in search of work, which had been going on for a number of years. In the Cheltenham records, now under consideration, we see this beginning; the first settlement examination of an Irishman is in July 1816, the first of a Scotsman in June 1819. Between 1820 and 1826 there are sixteen Irish and three Scottish paupers. A sample taken a few years later shows that between January and July 1831 no less than 39 Irish and 18 Scottish paupers, many with families, were examined in Cheltenham as to their places of settlement. Many must have been ‘navvies’ (navi gators), attracted by the prospect of work on canal and railway construction. Settlement Records Great quantities of settlement papers have survived all over the country among parish records, many now in County Record Offices. Of these, the main types are settlement certificates, bonds, exami nations, removal orders, and documents relating to appeals to Quarter Sessions against removal. 1 9 & io Viet., cap. 66 (1846), 24 & 25 Viet., cap. 55 (1861), 28 & 29 Viet., cap. 79 (1865).
XV CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 At a conference of the British Records Association some years ago, in the course of a discussion on the publication of records, Professor Sir Frank Stenton mentioned settlement examinations among several examples of illuminating records none of which had been printed. They are indeed of unusual interest and have been described as ‘virtually autobiographies of persons in a class of which other biographical records are rarely found’.1 Lest this should arouse undue expectations, it must be added that the facts of the exami nant’s life in which the examining justices were interested were strictly those which had a bearing on his or her legal settlement. They normally include the place of birth but seldom the age and only sometimes the parentage of the pauper; details of any appren ticeship but not of education; particulars of annual hirings and wages, but only casual references to other employment; the location and value of property owned or rented at any time, but often nothing at all concerning long periods of the subject’s life. Settlement examinations may thus be of more importance to the economic and social historian than to the local historian and genealogist. The place of marriage and the names of wife and names and ages of children are, however, often given, and odd information of much interest occasionally emerges, as the following examples will show. The subject of an examination at Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1745, was ‘Mr. Allan Sherwood, clerk’,2 aged 46, who stated that he was bom in Hawkesbury; his father, a Cheshire man, had lived six years as coachman to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton (the adjoining parish) and afterwards in the parish of St. Andrew’s, Holbom. He himself, aged about three when his father died, was sent to school at Sherston in Wilts., ‘and from thence was put to Oxford, where he staid 4 or 5 years, and afterwards was ordained . . . and served as a curate at Westbury-under-the-Plain in Wiltshire, two years and a half at the rate of £30 a year, raised by subscription, and has since kept school for about half a year, and served as a curate at Hascomb [?Harescombe] in the County of Gloucester for about half a year more’. In 1744 he married ‘Hester his now wife, aged about one and twenty years, at Bath, by whom he has now one child named George aged twenty weeks.’ Five years later, in 1750, his mother j Deborah Sherwood, aged 82, was interrogated. She gave her birth ! place as Upton (Hawkesbury Upton in Hawkesbury), where she had lived until she was 19 or 20 years of age, after which she had hired herself for a year as nursemaid to the late Henry, Duke of Beaufort, at £3 a year. During her service she had married, at Yate church, George Sherwood, coachman to the Duke. They had one child, Allan, lately deceased. Her husband was discharged soon 1 W. E. Tate, The Parish Chest, p. 201. 1 i.e. Clerk in Holy Orders. xvi 1
! 3 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 after their marriage, and they then went to London, where he served one Esquire Lindell as coachman, but died after about nine months. She then returned to Hawkesbury, where she had lived ever since, having purchased the remainder of a long lease of a dwelling-house and a little paddock from one George Watts. She paid about £30 for this lease, and sold it for £16, about a year before her exami nation, to Mr. Richard Wastfield. The end of this melancholy story can be found in the account book of the Overseers of the Poor for Hawkesbury. In 1750 there was a payment to Hannah Hopkins for cleaning Deborah Sherwood from vermin and washing her clothes when she was removed to the Common, presumably to a parish poor-house. Moneys were laid out for a bedstead and for a change of apparel, and more later for making various garments. Through 1751 and most of 1752 the old lady received 2/6 a week from the parish, which finally incurred also the cost of ‘washing and attendance in her illness’, 'drink for her’, and ‘expenses in burying her’ (‘Laying her out and putting her in the coffin, with victuals, 2/6; carrying her to church, and drink, 6/-; combed wool cap and muffler, 1/6; a coffin and digging grave, 9 -’). ‘Parson Sherwood’s children’ were also sustained by the parish for over five years (1749-1754) at 2/- a week; thereafter they disappear from the accounts, possibly ap prenticed, but there was much smallpox in Hawkesbury at this period. The second example, a briefer one, comes from the cloth-making parish of Rodborough, near Stroud, where 'Mary Browning other wise Bird’ was examined as to her place of legal settlement in November 1803. She said that she was born in Stroud and about nine years before had been married to Samuel Bird of Stroud, shearman, by whom she had one child, Samuel, aged eight years. About nine months after their marriage Bird had left her, and she had heard nothing from him for about three years, and then 'had two letters saying that he was dead’. About two years later she had married Charles Browning of Rodborough, by whom she had had another child, Martha, aged about 4J. ‘About three weeks after she was delivered of the said child her husband Samuel Bird returned home to her and stayed about one week and then went away, and she hath never seen him since but hath heard that he died in Egypt. She still continued living with Charles Browning, by whom she hath had one other child named John, now of the age of about two years and a half.’ This is all; but the errant husband may well have atoned by dying for his country at the Battle of Alexandria in March 1801, when the Gloucestershire Regiment won its famous ‘back-badge’ by fighting off the French cavalry front and rear. The Cheltenham Examinations Large groups of settlement examinations are extant for several Gloucestershire parishes. The Cheltenham examinations, although xvii 2 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 rather late in date, have been chosen for publication because they appear to be a complete record for a limited period, and also for the light they may throw on migration to Cheltenham, a fashionable watering-place whose population rose from 3,076 in 1801 to 8,325 in 1811, 13,396 in 1821, and 22,942 in 1831. At public vestry meetings in Cheltenham on 23 April 1811 and 14 January 1812 it was agreed to adopt the provisions of Gilbert’s Act (22 Geo. Ill, cap. 83) and on 7 April 1812 William Buckle was appointed Guardian of the Poor at a salary of £52 a year.1 The Act provided for the approval and supervision of paid guardians by the local justices of the peace, and it must be as a result of this that Cheltenham settle ment examinations from 1815 onwards have been preserved, not in the parish chest, but among records of the Cheltenham justices in Petty Sessions. Instead of being separate papers, they are entered in books, of which 8 have survived, running from 1815 to 1852 and containing many hundreds of depositions. Those now printed, ■ 653 in number, are the contents of the first volume.2 These examinations do not relate exclusively to the parish of I Cheltenham as it then was, but to the area of the Cheltenham Petty Sessional Division, then comprising the Hundreds of Cheltenham and Cleeve, plus the parish of Prestbury. The parishes covered are Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, Leckhampton, Staverton, Swindon, Uckington, Prestbury, and the large ancient parish of Bishop’s Cleeve, with its hamlets of Gotherington, Stoke Orchard, Southam with Brockhampton, and Woodmancote, now all separate civil parishes. In 1798, and probably at the period of the examinations, the meetings of Petty Sessions were held at the Plough Inn in Cheltenham. Each examination is usually signed by two justices, sometimes by one only. In the abstracts of examinations the names of officiating justices have been omitted, but a list of the justices concerned will be found after the Introduction. The language of the statements, with its formal jargon like 'resided' and ‘intermarried with', is evidently that of the justices’ i clerk. Very rarely is any statement quoted verbatim, as in no. 379, a long account by a carpenter of his son’s leasing of a farm. A number I of statements, for some unexplained reason, either break off un finished or are possibly complete but not signed by either the examinant or the justices. Analysis of the examinations shows that in the 547 which were completed, 115 men and 51 women were able to sign (some of them only just), while 215 men and 166 women made their mark. Thus rather more than a third of the men and less than a quarter of the women were to this extent literate.
» Cheltenham Parish vestry minutes, Gloucestershire Records Office (P. 78 VE 2/2). 3 Glos. Records Office, PS/CH/RA 2/1. xviii CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 The Depositions As the statements often give particulars of employment some years earlier and occasionally many years earlier, the economic historian can glean statistics of wage rates, mainly agricultural and domestic, over a longer period than that of the actual exami nations. The farm worker’s pay was roughly from £8 to £12 a year, nearly double the rates remembered by elderly men as having been paid before the Napoleonic Wars. Annual hiring, normal in the 18th century, seems to have been less general in the early 19th, though of course it did not die out until much later. Wages of domestic servants vary more widely, between about £3 and £12 a year, according to their status and the class of employer. Domestics would as a rule have their board and lodging in addition, and agricultural workers various perquisites, including possibly a cottage, but of these we hear little. A coachman was paid as much as 14 guineas a year (371), and a cook 12 guineas; an ostler (236 and 258) received only his board and tips. In better-class domestic service in a town like Cheltenham, hiring by the year had largely given place to ‘month’s wages or month’s warning’. Many other occupations are represented, and there is a good deal of information on apprenticeship, as well as some on rents and leases. These annals of the poor are generally both short and simple. The majority of the examinants have been bom within a radius of twenty-five miles from Cheltenham, and placed in farm or domestic service when quite young. They are the respectable poor; apart from the Irish wayfarers there are only a few cases of vagrancy, such as Ann Green (240), a soldier’s luckless widow, though others had been on the road when younger, like James Hedginhill (82), who between the ages of 12 and 18 ‘wandered abroad in the country without any home’, then became assistant to a long-distance waggoner, later a canal labourer, and finally drifted to Cheltenham. John Rees (93) ran away from home and was ‘picked up at Gloucester by some person’ who apprenticed him to a chimney-sweep, no doubt for a consideration and in the conditions pictured by Kingsley. Nicholas Landfear's parents were vagrants (649), but he seems to have settled down eventually. So did Thomas Pink (261) a waif who had held horses at inns in Sussex, becoming a chaise driver and postillion in good families and finally a coach driver. Elizabeth Kellow (138) had lived a wayfaring life with her aunt, a pedlar, and was a beggar at the time of her examination, having been married and widowed. Benjamin Williams (648) gave his statement from the County Gaol, but no other examinant discloses a criminal record; it must be remembered, however, that the justices were not interested in eliciting this. Esther Newman (30) was destitute because her bigamous husband had been arrested, and Phoebe Taylor (468) because hers had been transported. Over sixty of the paupers had been apprenticed, some by the xix CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 parish but others privately and a few by charities. A noticeably high proportion of them had failed to serve out their seven years,
■ or even a lesser term. A large number had been apprenticed to cordwainers (bootmakers or cobblers), a humble trade. Several apprentices had run away from their masters or had taken the King’s shilling during the Wars. Thomas Watts’s first master died and his second went bankrupt (77). An apprentice cordwainer, John Bliss, had run away in consequence of ill usage (271). Thomas Johnson (105) had been apprenticed by his parish in Coventry to a Dudley miner, but absconded after a year. Philip Burbridge (108), a country boy, 'being at that time very wild, frequently ran away. . . but always returned’. William Saul (124), who was apprenticed at the Abenhall paper mill, married before his time was up. Thomas Haines’s master died after 22 days’ apprenticeship (158) and Richard Trundell’s ‘left the town’ after seven months (320), while the master of Richard Cooper (462) 'enlisted for a soldier’. Thus the apprentice (even if some them were liars) was subject to various hazards, and many, in one way or another, had had a poor start in life, though few were as unlucky as James Stagg (637), taken by a press gang at the age of 10. While apprentice ship to stocking-weavers in Tewkesbury and elsewhere is several times recorded, the staple industry of Gloucestershire, the cloth trade, is almost completely absent. This must be because Cheltenham had never been a cloth town, and elsewhere in the country, the industry was still flourishing at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. When the depression gradually deepened, the weavers, mostly out-workers owning their own cottages, were loth to move in search of other work, and held on vainly hoping for better things until sunk in misery and degradation.1 The misfortunes which had reduced the examinants to dependence on parish relief were in the main those against which the modem ‘Welfare State’ is designed to protect us—sickness, unemployment, and old age. Illness or accident (e.g. no. 160) normally led to loss of employment. A number of unmarried servant-girls had become pregnant. Widows, or deserted wives, had often been left with a family and no means of support; a good instance is Elizabeth I Hingley or Hindley (328 and 329), who travelled with her husband from Grimsby to London ‘with a view to go to South America, but were disappointed’. Her husband then ‘entered on board a man-of- war destined for Algiers and was absent for about 3 years’ (how she lived meanwhile is not explained) and had lately left her again with three children. In this case the absconder seems to have been rounded up by the justices. Some of the domestics had been in good service, and it is pathetic to find them destitute in later years. William Gilder (183) had been 1 See W. A. Miles, Report an the Condition of the Handloom Weavers of Gloucestershire (1839), passim. i XX I CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 with Mr. Durham, the Postlip paper manufacturer, Robert Raikes, the Gloucester printer and philanthropist, Sir Thomas Crawley, employers in Bath, and a General Roberson in Scotland and Essex. John Roe (253), after fourteen years in the Navy, was butler to a* naval captain. Mary Williams (496), who had been in service since she was twelve, travelled with a Colonel Fitzgerald and his family from Yorkshire to London, Hampstead, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hampshire, and Guernsey. Edward Williams (342), bom in the West Indies and very likely a negro, had served in various houses at good wages. Those who had seen better days included several unsuccessful farmers, such as John Edwards (249). The wife of Stephen Butler (347) affirmed that her husband had lived on an estate of his own, which had been taken by a mortgagee. William Clarke (349) had owned a house worth £300 and William Freeman (575) one worth £100, while Thomas Tilton (582) had bought land for £35 and built a house on it, like Thomas Cook (621) in Cheltenham. Edward Wetherstone (267) had been a tenant farmer for thirty years, William Crump (378) for twenty. Catherine Hawker (594) was a farmer’s widow, Sarah Burford (593) a miller’s. Thomas Bullock (166) and Samuel Davison (542) had been publicans, George Randall (63) a clothier in Painswick and afterwards a coal-merchant in Cheltenham. The conclusion to be drawn as to the sources of Cheltenham population must be that its increase came mainly from the immediate neighbourhood, and by migration of rural workers to the town, as might be expected. According to the statements given on oath, 32 examinants had been born in Cheltenham itself and 377 (i.e. well over half the total number examined) within twenty-five miles. The birthplaces of another 85 were between twenty-five and fifty miles of Cheltenham, those of 41 between fifty and a hundred miles (this includes London), and only 22 had been bom further afield, mostly in Ireland. The remaining hundred or so either do not state their birthplace or did not know it, or give places which have not been identified; but of the latter (about 20), all but three were stated to be in Gloucestershire or adjoining counties. The most- travelled pauper was Benjamin Burgess (290), born at St. John’s, New Brunswick, and apprenticed to a shipowner at Berwick-on- Tweed.
xxi NOTES ON THE OFFICIATING JUSTICES The following are the names of the Justices of the Peace for the Cheltenham Petty Sessional Division who signed examinations between May 1815 and September 1826, with the earliest and latest dates when they officiated: William Hicks 9 May 1815 29 August 1826 James Agg 9 May 1815 17 June 1826 Thomas Welles 9 May 1815 23 November 1819 Robert Capper 23 May 1816 2 September 1826 R. L. Townsend 8 December 1818 5 September 1826 W. H. Prinn 8 December 1818 3 October 1820 James Clutterbuck 13 April 1819 2 September 1826 William Hicks, jun. 10 October 1820 5 September 1826 W. Davies 12 June 1821 25 October 1825 H. N. Trye 11 October 1821 4 July 1826 Alexander Willson 19 July 1823 6 _July _ 1826 F. P. Stratford 5 September 1817 and 7 September 1824 Hicks, senior, Agg and Capper sign frequently throughout, and Welles until his disappearance (?death). Clutterbuck and Hicks, junior, appear regularly from 1819 and 1820 respectively. The rest only occasionally act (Prinn five times and Stratford twice only), but Willson signs fairly often from 1823. Justices’ qualification oaths in Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions Archives (Glos. Records Office, Q/JQ 3) include those of the following: Name Property qualification at Date of oath Robert Capper Prestbury 1816 Rev. William Hicks Whittington Rectory 1819 Henry Norwood Trye Leckhampton 1821 I James Clutterbuck Minchinhampton 1812 Sir Alexr. Willson, kt. Tidenham 1821 There is a gap in the files of qualification oaths between 1781 and 1810. A list of justices in 1816, among records of the Clerk of the Peace
-■ (Glos. Records Office, Q/SN 3) includes James Agg of Hewletts, Cheltenham, Robert Capper of Marie Hill, Cheltenham, William Hicks, Robert Lawrence Townsend of Cleeve, Cheltenham (shown as the Rev. R. L. Townsend in a writ of dedimus potestatem, 1810), William Hunt Prynne of Charlton Kings, James Clutterbuck of Hyde, near Minchinhampton, William Davies, jun., of Rockhampton 1 xxii CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 (name deleted, with note: 'now Dr Davies’), and Francis Paul Stratford, ‘lives in London’. Major James Agg, late Indian Army, was the ancestor of the Agg and Agg-Gardner family, including Sir James Agg-Gardner, M.P. for Cheltenham for many years. Agg, like Capper and Hicks, was a prominent inhabitant of Regency Cheltenham.1 H. N. Trye and W. H. Prinn or Prynne were the squires of Leckhampton and Prestbury respectively. Clutterbuck presumably moved from Minchinhampton to Cheltenham in 1819. Sir Alexander Willson was not of a Gloucestershire family, has not been found in Chelten ham directories, and perhaps lived there for a few years only. His property qualification was land at Tidenham, near Chepstow.
x See Gwen Hart, A History of Cheltenham (1965), chapter xv. xxiii NOTE ON THE FORM OF ABSTRACTS OF EXAMINATIONS A typical Examination, transcribed in full, would read as follows. The words in italics have normally been omitted from the abstracts. A.B. being sworn saith on his oath that he was bom in the parish of C. in the County of Gloucester, where he believes his parents were legally settled. When he was about 14 or 15 years of age he was hired at Gloucester first Mop or Statute Fair on Old Michaelmas Day by Mr. X.Y. of the parish of Z. in the County of Wilts., for a year at the wages of £2. He served the whole year and received his wages. About 5 years ago he was married to his present wife Ann by whom he has three children, John aged about four years, Mary Ann aged two years and Jane aged five months. He has never done any other act to gain a settlement elsewhere. Where the county is omitted, the parish is (stated to be) in Gloucester shire. Standard abbreviations have been used for the names of counties, which are only sometimes abbreviated in the original MS.
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xxiv CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS i. 9 May 1815. William Harris Bom in Monmouth (town), where his parents were settled, (signs) 9 May 1815. John Brown Bom at Gotherington in Bishop’s Cleeve, where his parents were settled, they having received relief from the overseers there. Has been hired into several services since he was emancipated from his father, but never for a full year. For the last 10 or 12 years has been a soldier or sailor, but for the last three-quarters of a year has been at Sheffield, Yorks., where he married Elizabeth his present wife, now residing with him. (mark)
3- 23 May 1815. George Roberts Born in Badgeworth. About two years ago was hired by Thomas Harman of Shurdington and served a year, (mark) 4- 6 June 1815. Thomas Tale, labourer Bom in the Co. of Wilts. Three years ago last Michaelmas was hired by Mr. Giles Chapman of Smithfield in Charlton Kings for a year. About ten weeks before its expiration he asked leave to visit his friends and staid away three days. His master was dissatisfied with him for staying so long and refused to take him in unless he allowed an abatement out of his wages; he consented to allow 7/6 and served the remainder of the year. The following year he stayed with his friends, but at Michaelmas 1813 he was hired by Giles Chapman for another year, which he served, and received his wages less 2/6 for two days absent, (mark)
5- 6 June 1815. James Nolgrove [PNotgrove] Bom in Burford, Oxfordshire. About 40 years ago he was hired by Mr. Bubb of Withington for a year at £7. Several years afterwards he received relief of the overseer of Withington, where he resided for many years, (unfinished) 6. 13 June 1815. Sarah Smith, singlewoman Born at Trowbridge, Wilts., and soon after removed with her parents to Chepstow, Mon., where they were settled. When about 14 she was placed out by the parish officers an apprentice to Mr. George Parker, cordwain er, of Chepstow. She served 31 years, when her master removed to Cricklade, Wilts.,
1 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 where she served 2| more years, and her master gave up her indentures. Has been hired in several places since, but never lived in any one a year, (mark) 7a. 25 July 1815. Susanna Wood of Cheltenham, singlewoman Bom at Cirencester, and has never gained any settlement in her own right, (mark) 7b. 25 July 1815. Elizabeth Wood saith she is the mother of Susanna Wood, who is the lawful daughter of examinant and her husband Thomas Wood, legally settled in Stroud, the officers of which parish have frequently relieved them, (mark) ■ 8. 25 July 1815. Elizabeth Nash, singlewoman Bom at Twyning. About 4 years ago she was a servant with Mr. Cooke and came with him from Bredon, Worcs., to Cheltenham, where she resided with him for upwards of a year and three-quarters, (unfinished) 9. 19 September 1815. Mary Holland, of Withington Bom at Withington. About 3 years ago she was hired at Cheltenham statute fair before Old Michaelmas Day by Mr. John Crump of Sudeley Tenements for a year. About 7 weeks previous to Old Michaelmas last she was hired by Mrs. Ballinger of Charlton Kings until Michaelmas Day, and again for a year. She continued in service until 17 August last, when her mistress finding that examinant was with child discharged her and paid her wages up to that day. (mark) Note: 'Orders made to remove to Sudely Tenements’
IO. 10 October 1815. Sarah Parker Bom at Southam in Bishop’s Cleeve. At Tewkesbury first Mop or statute fair in 1813 she was hired by Mr. John Dipper ! of Southwick and Park in Tewkesbury for a year at 5 guineas. At Cheltenham last Mop in 1814 she was hired by Mr. Witts of Southam till the following Old Michaelmas Day at 5 guineas, (mark)
II. 24 October 1815. Elizabeth Hawker, widow Bom in Bledington. About 28 years ago she was hired by Mr. Hathaway of Upper Swell for a year. About 3 weeks before its expiration she was married to William Hawker, whose settlement was . . . (unfinished)
12. 14 November 1815. Caroline Welch, singlewoman (See nos. 17 and 242) Born in Cheltenham and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 2 ) CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 I3- 14 November 1815. Job Turner, labourer Born in Dowdeswell. In the spring of 1809 went to live with Mr. Edward Matthews of Cheltenham as errand boy; no time was agreed upon, but Matthews agreed to find him clothes and victuals. He continued as errand boy upwards of two years, (not signed)
14. 14 November 1815. John Combe, residing at Charlton Kings Bom in Hailing [Hawling]. About 7 years ago was hired by Mr. Cull of Sandford Mill for a year and continued in his service the following year, sleeping in the house attached to the mill, (mark)
T5* 21 November 1815. William Page, residing in Charlton Kings Bom in Gotherington. Five years ago Old Michaelmas Day last past he was hired at Cheltenham . . . (unfinished)
16. 12 December 1815. Hannah Arundell, singlewoman Born in Stroud. Between 4 and 5 years ago she was hired by Mr. Barrell of the Crown Inn, Cheltenham, for a year at wages of £3. She was then hired by Miss Pritchard of the Golden Heart at Stroud for a year at £5 or £6, and continued in her service part of a second year, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made’ 17a. 12 December 1815. Caroline Welch (See nos. 12 and 242) Bom in Cheltenham and has never been out at service, (mark) 17b. 12 December 1815. Elizabeth Welch saith that her husband Edward Welch was last legally settled at Up Hatherley by hiring and service, previously to his marriage, with a Mr. Wrentford late of Up Hatherley, and that Caroline is their lawful daughter, (mark) 18. 12 December 1815. John Paish Bom in Aldsworth. At Cheltenham last Mop about 9 years ago he was hired by Mr. Richard Cresser of Prestbury for a year, and then another year. He was then hired at Winchcombe Mop by Mr. Mason of Dumbleton for a year but after 6 months enlisted into the 50th Regt, of Foot. He continued in H.M. Service about 7 years, during which time he was married in Ashton, Wilts, to Mary his present wife, (mark)
19. 26 December 1815. Benjamin Freeman Born in [The] Leigh. About 12 or 13 years ago he was hired by Mr. Bridge of Notley in Deerhurst, at Tewkesbury first Mop, for a year at 2 j guineas wages, (mark) 3 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
20. 2 January 1816. Edwin Boheine Bom at Aylesbury, Bucks. Whilst he was an infant his father removed to Trowbridge, Wilts., where he carried on the profession of a surgeon and man midwife. When about 16 he went with his father to the West Indies, where he remained three years. For the next ten years he was a sailor in H.M. Navy, and on his discharge followed the business of a chimney sweeper, (signs)
21. 8 January 1816. Samuel Compton Bom in Cheltenham. His father was settled in Tredington, but about 40 years ago he was hired by Mrs. Watkins of Cheltenham for a year at 5 guineas, (mark)
22. 16 January 1816. Mary Collins, singlewoman Bom at Bilper [Belper] in the Co. of Derby. About 8 years ago was apprenticed by the parish officers of Tewkesbury to Francis Leidlam, stocking-weaver, for 7 years, four of which she served her master, who then discharged her. (mark)
23- 6 February 1816. Richard Lane, labourer Bom in Staverton. About 20 years ago was hired by Benjamin Lane of Artus Field in Cheltenham for a year at 2 guineas. From this time until he attained the age of 15 years, he lived with his father and worked at different places, when he went into the service of the Revd. William ?Pearse at Staverton, where he resided upwards of a year, receiving board, lodging and cloaths, but no wages, (signs) 24. 22 February 1816. Ann Davis, singlewoman, residing in Stoke Orchard Bom in Stanton. At Tewkesbury Mop in 1814 she was hired by Farmer Lacy of Cockbury in Winchcomb for a year, (mark)
25- 12 March 1816. David Dodwell Bom in Cheltenham. Upwards of 20 years ago he was hired by Mr. ?Tiff of Southam and Brockhampton for a year. About I 10 years ago his wife’s aunt Mrs. Maisey gave him leave to build a small cottage on part of her garden ground in Chelten 1 ham, which he did at his own expense, and he and his family have ever since resided there. He never paid any rent; it was agreed that he was to pay one guinea per annum, but it was never called for. (mark) 1 26. 12 March 1816. Sarah Beavan Bom in Bredon, Worcs., and lived for 7 years in Cheltenham with Mr. Thornton, father of the present Miss Thornton, (unfinished) A ■ CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 *1- 2 April 1816. John Jones Born in Ashton [Aston] upon Carrant [in Ashchurch]. About 15 years ago last Michaelmas, he was hired by Job Atkins of Bishop’s Cleeve for a year, but left his service in consequence of some misunderstanding about six days previous to the end of the year, altho’ he received his full year’s wages. The following Old Michaelmas he was hired by Thomas Read of the same parish for a year, at weekly wages, to maintain himself, but not at liberty to quit his place at the end of any week. He slept in his master’s house for a whole year. Was never in service afterwards, but in about two years he intermarried with Mary Beavan, and about 8 or 9 years ago went with his wife to Bredon, Worcs., to reside with her father and mother. He lived in their house with his family until the death of his father-in-law about 4 years ago, and continued there until removed by Justices’ order to Bishop’s Cleeve. (mark)
28. 9 April 1816. Sarah Hemings Born in Charlton Kings. About 3 years ago was hired by Mr. Coxwell of that parish for a year, (mark)
29- 30 April 1816. Walter Bevan Born at Combdean in the Co. of Brecknock. About 5 years ago he took of Mr. Pitt a dwelling house in Cheltenham for a year at £40 rent, occupied it one whole year and paid the rent, (mark)
30a. 4 May 1816. Esther Newman Born in Castle Moreton, Worcs. About 6 years ago was hired by Mr. Wells, landlord of the Unicom Inn in the parish of All Saints, Worcester, for a year, and continued another year. She has since lived in several services but all short of a year. On 28 December last she was married to one George Willis, but has since been acquainted that he was previously married to a woman now living, and he has since been appre hended for leaving his former wife and family chargeable to his parish, (mark)
30b. William Allen, constable of Cheltenham, says he was present at the last Gloucester Sessions, where George Willis was adjudged a rogue and a vagabond for leaving his former wife and family chargeable to the parish of Sandhurst, (signs)
Si- 14 May 1816. Thomas Ballard Bom in Buckland . . . (unfinished) 5 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 32. 23 May 1816. Edward Rogers Born in PBastchurch, Flint. When about 14 he was placed out by his parents as an apprentice for 5 years to Messrs. Cotton & Cochen of St. Marylebone, served the whole time and continued in their service as a yearly servant for 5 years afterwards. After he left their service he rented a house, No. 3 Seymour Place, Portman Square, at £80 per annum for three years, (signs) 33. 4 June 1816. Mary Watkins Bom in Stroud, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 34. 11 June 1816. Thomas Hobbs Bom in Painswick, where his parents were legally settled, (signs) 35. 11 June 1816. Elizabeth Holder, singlewoman Bom in Coleford. On or about 5 November 1814 she was hired for a year by General Mollineux, then residing at Monmouth. After about 6 months they removed to Clifton where they resided until they removed to Cheltenham, where she remained in the family only 3 weeks and was discharged about 3 weeks before Christmas 1815. (mark) 36. 4 July 1816. Edward Evans Bom in Westbury, Salop, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 37. 16 July 1816. John Moore Bom in Queen's County, Ireland, and has never done any act to gain a settlement in Great Britain, (mark) ! 38. 17 July 1816. Hannah Jerrett Bom in Dallington [? Darlington], Co. Durham. About 8 years ago was married in London to William Jerrett, whose lawful settlement is in Tewkesbury, and she has received relief from the parish officers of Tewkesbury, (signs) 39- 22 July 1816. Oliver Richards Bom in Cheltenham. About i| years ago he was apprenticed to William Niblett of Maisemore, cordwainer, for 7 years, served about three-quarters of a year and then left, (mark)
40. 22 July 1816. James Morgan Bom in Westbury-upon-Sevem. About 3 years and 7 months ago he was apprenticed to Charles Arkell of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, tailor, for 7 years, served him about 3| years and then left his employ, (mark) 6
) CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 4i. 22 July 1816. Amelia Powell Her father resides in St. Owen’s, City of Hereford; she was bom there, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs) 42. 12 August 1816. Caroline Jones Bom in Ripple, Worcs. About 7 years ago she was apprenticed to Franklin Ludlow of Tewkesbury Stocking Manufactory for 7 years, served 4 years and then left, (signs) 43- 26 August 1816. John Leek Born in Atcham, Salop. About 20 years ago rented a house at £9 yearly of a Mr. Pigott in Livery Street, St. Philip's, Birmingham, and a stable at £3 yearly. He continued in occupation for 3 or 4 years, (signs: John Leake) 44* 3 September 1816. Ann Dowles Bom in Painswick. About 18 months ago she was hired to Mr. Richard Joye of the same place for a year, (mark) 45- 3 September 1816. Joseph Guest Bom in Boddington. About 15 or 16 years ago was hired by Mr. White, farmer, of Westbury, for a year, (mark) Note: 'Ann, Thos. 10, Wm. 8, Isaac 6, George 3, an infant daughter’ 46. 9 January 1817 [szc]. Mary Holland Bom in Badgeworth, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 47- 5 September 1816. Phoebe Hasbrook Bom in Knightwick, Worcs. When she was about 12, she was hired by a Mr. Webb of Broadwest [Broadwas], Worcs. for a year. In February 1812 she was hired by Mr. Horton of Cheltenham for a year at 12 guineas. About 16 October, being in a state of pregnancy, she left the service of Mr. Horton, who settled with her for the wages due to that time, and she left money in his hands to pay debts. About 5 weeks after, Mrs. Horton sent to inform her that she had left her cottage but had recommended her to Baroness Phelitzer, who had taken it for the remainder of the year. She served the Baroness until March following and was paid at the rate of 12 gns. a year, (signs: Phoebe Asbrook) 48. 19 September 1816. James Little Bom in Churchdown. About 16 years ago he was apprenticed by the parish officers of Church down to Marshal Allen of Cheltenham, stocking-maker, and served 5 years, when his master gave up his indentures, (signs) 7 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 49. 24 September 1816. William Ayline Bom in Arlingham. At Gloucester Mop or Statute Fair three years ago he was hired for a year by Mr. Hill of Brockworth, (mark) 50. 7 October 1816. William Rowland Bom in Arlingham, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 51* 8 October 1816. Charles Russell Bom in [The] Leigh. When about 14 he was hired by Mr. Lane of Ripple, Worcs., for a year. About 4 years ago he was hired by Mr. Bolter of Tredington. At the last Cheltenham Mop holden on 13 Oct. 1814 he was hired by Mr. John Witts of Southam for a year, served until 11 Oct. 1815 and received his full year’s wages, (mark) 52. 8 October 1816. David Turner Bom in Quenington. About 21 years ago he was hired by Mr. Robert Mason of Dowdeswell for a year at £6. (mark) 53. 19 October 1816. Ann Phillips Born in Bridstow, Herefs. and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere. Her father was settled in Seiwick [Sellack, Herefs.] as she believes, and the parish officers there have several times relieved her mother since her father’s death, (unfinished) 54- 10 October 1816. Robert Scrotchley, labourer Bom at Ruscomb in Stroud, where his father resided and his mother still resides. He received from the overseers of Stroud 1/6 a week for his support during two years, about two years ago. (mark) Note: 'Copy of the examination’ 55- 22 October 1816. Thomas Poole, now residing in Cheltenham Bom in Sevenhampton. About 12 or 14 years ago he was hired at Cheltenham first Mop by George Long of Alstone in Cheltenham, farmer, for a year, and again for another year, but continued only half a year. Afterwards went to live with his father in Sevenhampton, where he remained near two years, when he married, (mark) 56. 23 October 1816. Matilda Rogers Bom in Liverpool. About 14 years ago she married her late husband George Rogers at Liverpool. His parish, as she believes, was Sunningchurch in Cornwall. Since his death she has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs) 57. 4 November 1816. Susanna Evans Bom in Minchinhampton, and also lived there a year under a hiring with Mr. Blackwell, (mark) 8 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 58. 5 November 1816. James Tailing Born in Bishop’s Cleeve. About 14 years ago he was hired by Mr. Edward Greenwood of Arie in Cheltenham for a year, (mark) 59- 5 November 1816. Mary Ann Carpenter, (cf. no. 78) Bom in the City of Worcester. About two years ago was hired by Mr. Hatch of the New Inn in St. Michael’s parish, Gloucester, for a year, (mark) 6o. 8 November 1816. Harriet Freeman Bom in Thames Street, St. Michael’s parish, Bath, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs) 61. 8 November 1816. Dianah Phillips Bom in the Temple parish, Bristol, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 62. 14 November 1816. William Mustoe Bom in Leckhampton, and has done no act to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) 63- 19 November 1816. George Randall Bom in Shurdington. About 12 years ago he went to reside in Painswick, where he carried on the business of a clothier in partnership with his brother, and rented property of near £40 per annum. About 8 years since he came to reside in Cheltenham, as a coal dealer, renting a house of Mrs. Ballinger at £20 for some time and later for upwards of £30 per annum. Since her decease he was tenant to Mr. Stephens at £32. (signs: George Randle) 64. 26 November 1816. Henry Pike Bom at Malmesbury, Wilts. When about 11 years of age, he was placed an outdoor apprentice to Mr. Carter of Malmes bury, plaisterer, for 7 years, which he duly served, (signs) Note: 'Charlotte Pike, 5 children James 7 years, Oliver 5, Henry 3, Joseph 2, Elizabeth 6 months’ 65- 27 November 1816. Comfort Davis, (cf. no. 212) Bom in Hasfield, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 66. 28 November 1816. William Davis Bom in Bisley, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 67. 28 November 1816. Samuel Davis As for No. 66. (mark) 68. 30 November 1816. Thomas Davis As for No. 66. (mark) 9 3 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 69. 30 November 1816. Henry Young As for No. 66. (mark) 70. 3 December 1816. Margaret Humphries Born in Withington. At the last Mop holden at Cheltenham in 1815 she was hired by the wife of Mr. James Pitt of Birdlip in Brimpsfield for a year, (mark) 71- 10 December 1816. Beata Scott Bom in Cirencester, and has been married first to Thomas Fletcher and secondly to Richard Scott, whose settlements were in Cirencester. About 6 years ago she was hired by Mr. Gwinnett of Cheltenham by the year and served four years but at the time of hiring had children under the age of 20 years, (signs) 72. 10 December 1816. William Buckle Bom at Southam in Bishop’s Cleeve. About 14 years ago was hired by Mr. John Greenwood of Arie in Cheltenham for a year. For the last ten years he has been living in Prestbury in a house he erected on a piece of waste ground purchased of a Mr. Pool for 8 guineas; before he built it he asked leave of the Steward of the Manor, and has paid 1/- yearly as rent, (mark) 73- 6 December 1816. Robert Freeman of Cheltenham, labourer Bom in Winchcomb, and has done no act since to gain a settlement, (mark) 74- 16 December 1816. Joel Caudle Bom in Dowdeswell, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs) 75- 17 December 1816. William Griffin Bom in Winchcomb. About 10 or 11 years ago was hired by Mr. John Bennett of Lay (Leigh) in Westbury-on-Sevem for half a year from Ladyday to Michaelmas, and again on the first Gloucester Mop Day for a year, (mark) 76. 17 December 1816. Mary Wood Bom at Loughborough, Leics. About 10 or 11 years ago she was married to Richard Wood. After about three-quarters of a year her husband 'run away from her’. About six years ago she was delivered of a child, of which Robert Lakeham was the reputed father, and was examined by the magistrates at Loughborough. About 2J years ago she was delivered of a male child, of whom Anthony Hopkinson was the reputed father, and about a fortnight later she was married to Anthony Hopkinson. She has never seen Richard Wood but once since he left her, and that was about five years ago last August.
10 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 After she was married to Hopkinson she was removed by the officers of Loughborough to Hopkinson's parish, but was subsequently taken back by them . . . (unfinished)
Tl- 17 December 1816. Thomas Watts Born in Cheltenham. In his youth he was apprenticed for 7 years to John Jefferies of Cheltenham, cordwainer, and served four years, when Jefferies died and a person of the name of Freeman took to his business. He continued with him one year, after which Freeman became insolvent and left the town, and examinant was then left without any master. He then wrote to his uncle who was a shoemaker in London, and his uncle wrote to him to come to him. On going to his house, his uncle said: ‘If you will be a good boy I will be friend to you and you may (stay) here.’ He staid with his uncle upwards of a twelvemonth, working as a shoemaker, during which time his uncle found him board, lodging, and clothes, and gave him money whenever he asked for it and sometimes when he did not. (signs)
78- 24 December 1816. Mary Ann Carpenter (cf. no. 59) Born in the City of Worcester, and has never lived in any place of service for one whole year or done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
79- 24 December 1816. John Cooke Born in Sevenhampton, where his parents resided. About 20 years ago he hired himself for a year to Mr. Bennett, blacksmith, of Sevenhampton, for one shilling a week and his board, and continued in such service living in his master’s house the whole of that year and the next. He served Thomas Acocks 4 years and upwards in Swindon, under a weekly hiring, (mark)
80. 6 January 1917. William Jeynes Born in Wilton, Wilts., where his father resided, who left him in the poorhouse of that parish, (mark)
81. 7 January 1817. George James Born in Cubberley and apprenticed to Mr. Freeman there for 7 years. He served 3 years, when the contract was dissolved by consent. About 7 or 8 years ago he married Ann Lea his present wife, who was then in possession of an undivided moiety of a copyhold messuage and garden in Charlton devised to her under her father’s will, and they are now living in the same house, (signs)
11 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 82. 21 January 1817. James Hedginhill, labourer His father died when he was about 3 years of age, living in Black Bourton, Oxon. but where he was born he cannot tell. He remained there until about the age of 12, and then wandered abroad in the country without any home, with a person of the name of Akers. When about 18 he went with Mr. Masters’s waggon from Cirencester and Farringdon to London to assist the waggoner, who allowed him his victuals, and in this employ he continued for two or three years, He was employed as a labourer upon the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal for 7 years, during which time he married. Soon afterwards he came to Cheltenham with his wife and family and was employed by the late Mr. Edward Smith as a labourer at his villa, and has continued to work as a labourer to the present time, (mark) Note: ‘Orders of removal made’ 83. 21 January 1817. William Hall, labourer Bom in Cobberley. About 13 or 14 years ago he was hired at Gloucester first Mop by Thomas Jenner of Standish for a year, and again hired and staid two years longer; then by Daniel Buckingham of Haresfield for a year. On the Gloucester first Mop day before Old Michaelmas his former master Mr. Jenner sent for him and again hired him for a year, (mark) 84. 29 January 1817. Henry Druett Born in Winchcomb. About ten years ago was hired by Mr. Summerfield of Cheltenham for a year, and continued the succeeding one. After he left his service he was hired for a year to Mr. J. Clutterbuck of Cheltenham, (mark) 85. 4 February 1817. Thomas Done Bom in Boddington. At Tewkesbury Mop or Statute Fair seven years ago last Michaelmas he was hired by Mr. Boulder of Tredington for a year at £16. (mark) Note: ‘Ann his wife' 86. 14 February 1817. William Job Bom in the City of Coventry. About 9 years ago he was apprenticed to his father, in St. Mary’s parish in the town of Warwick, for 7 years to learn the art of a cordwainer; he served five years and then enlisted into the marines, (mark) 87. 18 February 1817. Elizabeth Russell Bom in Coin St. Rogers, and has done no act to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) 88. 20 February 1817. Mary ?Beny Bom in Ensam [PEynsham ], Oxon., where her parents were settled. At the first Mop holden at Abingdon about 5 years 12 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 ago she was hired by Mr. Latham of Dorchester, Oxon., for a year. About 18 months ago she was hired by Mr. Kelty of Oaklands in Prestbury for a year at 12 guineas, but after 3 months a new hiring took place for 11 guineas per year and her situation was changed from cook to housemaid. At the end of 11 months she quitted her service and went home to her parents, receiving wages for 11 months and a fortnight. After a month she returned to Oaklands and was hired by Mr. Butler the then proprietor to look after the house, (unfinished) 89. 3 March 1817. Sarah Compton Bom in Cheltenham. About 3 years ago was hired by Mr. ?Hervey of Cheltenham for a year; he was to give her two guineas for wages and to find her clothing, lodging and board. She served the year, and the following year under the same terms, (mark) 90. 4 March 1817. Mary Lane James Lawrence, overseer of the parish of Staverton, on his oath saith that Mary Lane of that parish, singlewoman, was upwards of 6 weeks ago delivered there of a male bastard child. He hath requested her to filiate the child, which she hath wholly refused to do. (signs) 91. 11 March 1817. John Cox Bom in Wittington (Whittington). About 15 years ago was hired by Mr. Hill of The Leigh for a year, and continued two successive ones, (signs) 92. ii March 1817. William Stubbs Bom in Staverton. Between 15 and 16 years ago, or near, he was hired at the Gloucester first Mop by Mr. Vernon of Sandhurst for a year at 9 guineas, (signs) 93. 11 March 1817. John Rees Bom in (blank) in the County of Monmouth. When very young he run away from his parents and was by chance picked up at Gloucester by some person who afterwards brought him to Cheltenham, where he was apprenticed to Richard Oakey, chimney sweeper of that parish, for seven years, which he duly served, (mark)
94- 18 March 1817. William Greening Bom in Boddington. About 4 years ago was hired by Mr. John Herbert of Uckington for a year at 5/- a week, and served the year, (mark)
13 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 82. 21 January 1817. James Hedginhill, labourer His father died when he was about 3 years of age, living in Black Bourton, Oxon. but where he was bom he cannot tell. He remained there until about the age of 12, and then wandered abroad in the country without any home, with a person of the name of Akers. When about 18 he went with Mr. Masters’s waggon from Cirencester and Farringdon to London to assist the waggoner, who allowed him his victuals, and in this employ he continued for two or three years, He was employed as a labourer upon the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal for 7 years, during which time he married. Soon afterwards he came to Cheltenham with his wife and family and was employed by the late Mr. Edward Smith as a labourer at his villa, and has continued to work as a labourer to the present time, (mark) Note: ‘Orders of removal made’ 83. 21 January 1817. William Hall, labourer Bom in Cobberley. About 13 or 14 years ago he was hired at Gloucester first Mop by Thomas Jenner of Standish for a year, and again hired and staid two years longer; then by Daniel Buckingham of Haresfield for a year. On the Gloucester first Mop day before Old Michaelmas his former master Mr. Jenner sent for him and again hired him for a year, (mark) 84. 29 January 1817. Henry Druett Bom in Winchcomb. About ten years ago was hired by Mr. Summerfield of Cheltenham for a year, and continued the succeeding one. After he left his service he was hired for a year to Mr. J. Clutterbuck of Cheltenham, (mark) 85- 4 February 1817. Thomas Done Bom in Boddington. At Tewkesbury Mop or Statute Fair seven years ago last Michaelmas he was hired by Mr. Boulder of Tredington for a year at £16. (mark) Note: ‘Ann his wife' 86. 14 February 1817. William Job Bom in the City of Coventry. About 9 years ago he was apprenticed to his father, in St. Mary’s parish in the town of Warwick, for 7 years to learn the art of a cordwainer; he served five years and then enlisted into the marines, (mark) 87. 18 February 1817. Elizabeth Russell Bom in Coin St. Rogers, and has done no act to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) 88. 20 February 1817. Mary ?Beny Bom in Ensam [?Eynsham ], Oxon., where her parents were settled. At the first Mop holden at Abingdon about 5 years
12 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 ago she was hired by Mr. Latham of Dorchester, Oxon., for a year. About 18 months ago she was hired by Mr. Kelty of Oaklands in Prestbury for a year at 12 guineas, but after 3 months a new hiring took place for 11 guineas per year and her situation was changed from cook to housemaid. At the end of 11 months she quitted her service and went home to her parents, receiving wages for 11 months and a fortnight. After a month she returned to Oaklands and was hired by Mr. Butler the then proprietor to look after the house, (unfinished) 89. 3 March 1817. Sarah Compton Bom in Cheltenham. About 3 years ago was hired by Mr. ?Hervey of Cheltenham for a year; he was to give her two guineas for wages and to find her clothing, lodging and board. She served the year, and the following year under the same terms, (mark) 90. 4 March 1817. Mary Lane James Lawrence, overseer of the parish of Staverton, on his oath saith that Mary Lane of that parish, singlewoman, was upwards of 6 weeks ago delivered there of a male bastard child. He hath requested her to filiate the child, which she hath wholly refused to do. (signs) 91. 11 March 1817. John Cox Bom in Wittington (Whittington). About 15 years ago was hired by Mr. Hill of The Leigh for a year, and continued two successive ones, (signs) 92. 11 March 1817. William Stubbs Bom in Staverton. Between 15 and 16 years ago, or near, he was hired at the Gloucester first Mop by Mr. Vernon of Sandhurst for a year at 9 guineas, (signs)
93- ii March 1817. John Rees Born in (blank) in the County of Monmouth. When very young he run away from his parents and was by chance picked up at Gloucester by some person who afterwards brought him to Cheltenham, where he was apprenticed to Richard Oakey, chimney sweeper of that parish, for seven years, which he duly served, (mark)
94- 18 March 1817. William Greening Bom in Boddington. About 4 years ago was hired by Mr. John Herbert of Uckington for a year at 5/- a week, and served the year, (mark)
13 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 95. i April 1817. John Woolford Bom in Haisey, Wilts. At Highworth Mop on Michaelmas Day in 1802 he was hired by Mr. John Hunder of Staunton, Wilts, for a year. The following Old Michaelmas he was hired for a year, but 7 months afterwards was drawn as a militia man. (signs) 96. 22 April 1817. Maria Lewis, singlewoman Bom in Cheltenham. When she was very young her parents died and she was taken by an uncle at Gloucester, with whom she lived until near 12 years of age. Her uncle then left Gloucester, when her sister Elizabeth ?Ruck who resided at Martley, Worcs. came to her and said she would take care of her until she could get her a situation. She resided two years with her sister, who found her board and lodging. During that time she went several times to work for several persons, and the wages which she so received she applied to buy her clothes. She has been hired in several places, but all short of a year, (signs) 97. 22 April 1817. Aaron Davis Born in Bisley. For six or seven years he has rented a house of Mr. Ward in Cheltenham, for the first 4 years at £7 a year, and during the last year he also rented a piece of ground of Mr. Wilkinson in Cheltenham at 3 guineas yearly, (un finished) 98. 29 April 1817. William Wherrett Bom in Corse . . . (unfinished) 99. 29 April 1817. Ann Cooke Bom in Painswick, where her parents were legally settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs: Ann Cook) IOO. 6 May 1817. Dinah Denby of Charlton Kings, singlewoman (cf. no. no) Bom in Coberley. After several services short of a year she was in August 1805 hired as a servant by the wife of (blank) Yates, then living in Grove Street, Cheltenham, for a year at £10 : 8 : o wages, (mark) 101. 6 April [?May] 1817. Thomas Harper Born in Leckhampton. At Cheltenham first Mop about 5 years ago he was hired by Mr. Willis of Badgeworth for a year, and at Gloucester first Mop about two years ago by Mr. Harris of Waddon [Whaddon] for a year. He was then hired for a year by Mr. Goscomb of Matson, and served till within 5 weeks of the end thereof, when he was discharged and received his wages up to that time, (mark) Note: 'Hannah Harper. George of the age of one month* 14 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
102. 6 May 1817. Isaac Hawker Bom in Elmstone Hardwick. At the first Mop day before Old Michaelmas, 1808, he was hired by Henry Gaskin of Brockhampton in Bishop’s Cleeve for a year. He then married, (mark) 103. 13 May 1817. Francis Warder Bom in Corseley, Somerset. Last Michaelmas he took of Mr. Hayward a house in Gloucester Street, Cheltenham, for a year, at the rent of ten guineas, and has been in occupation thereof ever since, (signs) 104. 13 May 1817. Thomas Fowler Bom in Cheltenham, and apprenticed when young by the parish officers to William Gamer of Uckington for 7 years, which he served, (unfinished) 105- 14 May 1817. Thomas Johnson Bom in the City of Coventry. About 8 or 9 years ago he was apprenticed by the officers of the parish where he was bom to Mr. William Gethin, miner, of the town of Dudley, for 7 years. He served about one year and then left his master, (mark) io6. 16 May 1817. John Evans Bom at Clapton, Surrey. About 10 years ago he was hired by a gentleman whose name he does not recollect in St. George’s, Southwark, for a year, (mark) 107. 20 May 1817. Ann Hoskyns Bom in Llangholm, Mon., and was hired by Mr. Parry of that parish for a year, (mark) 108. 20 May 1817. Philip Burbridge Bom in Toddington. When young he was apprenticed to Robert Harris of Gotherington for 7 years. Being at that time very wild, he frequently ran away from his master’s service but always returned, and his master received him; but about 3 months before the 7 years were expired he agreed to leave his master altogether and his master consented thereto on receiving 4 guineas, (signs) 109. 23 May 1817. Harriet Syms Bom in Hartlebury, Worcs. About 5 or 6 years ago she was hired by Mr. Elijah Hill of Kidderminster for a year and continued in his service 3 successive years, (mark)
IIO. 27 May 1817. Mary Hall (cf. no. 100) Her daughter Dinah Denby was bom in Leckhampton. Her first husband, Dinah’s father, was settled in Coberley, and she and her husband have frequently received relief from the officers of that parish, (mark) 15 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
III. 29 May 1817. James Day Bom in Chipping Norton, Oxon. About io years ago was apprenticed to John Mallett of that parish, brazier, for 7 years, and served the same, (signs)
112. 6 June 1817. James Bradshaw Bom in Boulton, Glos, [sw]* as he has been informed, where his father resided, who received relief from the parish officers there, (signs) “3- 10 June 1817. William Sole Bom in Winchcomb, where his parents were legally settled. Four years ago he was married to Jane his present wife and has by her two children, George, 3 years, and Mary Anne, 8 months, (mark)
114. 17 June 1817. John Lamer Bom at Alstone in Cheltenham. About 26 years ago he was hired for a year to Mrs. Wrentford of Up Hatherley . . . (unfinished) XI5- 19 June 1817. William Hamilton Bom in Gosport, Hants., where his parents were settled, and has done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere. 116. 19 June 1817. John Carey Bom at Limerick in Ireland. Upwards of 10 years ago he was hired by Thomas Kyte of Modbury, Devon, for a year at 8 guineas, (mark)
117. 23 June 1817. William Pearson Bom in Kingswinbred [PKingswinford], Staffs., and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 118. 23 June 1817. Richard Patrick Bom in Kingswinbred [PKingswinford], Staffs., and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
119. 23 June 1817. Elizabeth Deane Bom in Huntley. About 5 years ago she was hired by the Revd. Mr. Foley of Huntley for a year. She continued in his service two years, (mark)
120. 1 July 1817. Esther Hathaway Near two years ago she was married to Peter Hathaway. Her husband has been living for the last 12 months in a house in Sherborne Street, which he paid rent for after the rate . . . (unfinished)
♦ There is no Boulton in Gloucestershire. Perhaps Bourton-on-the-Water or Bourton-on-the-Hill. 16 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 121. 3 July 1817. Sarah Hope Born in Tewkesbury. Has lived as a yearly servant in the employ of Mr. Newman in Cheltenham for the last two years, and quitted such service only in December last. • (signs)
122. 1 July 1817. William Cresswell Bom in Gotherington, and has done no act in his own right to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
123. 5 July 1817. George Browning Bom in the parish of Redcliffe, Bristol, and has never done any act in his own right to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
124. 8 July 1817. William Saul Born in Winchcomb. When about 16 he was apprenticed by his parents to Mr. Lloyd of Gun’s Mills in Abinghall until 21 years of age. He was to receive ios. per week for the first 3 years and 8s. per week for the last two years. About six months before his time was up he married, but he slept within 3 weeks of that time in Abinghall After his marriage he slept in the Hundred of St. Briavels. (signs)
125- 8 July 1817. Sarah McBride Bom in Low Leighton, Essex. About 4^ years ago she was hired by Mrs. Sarah Patterson of St. Mary le Bone, Middx., for a year, (mark) 126. 14 July 1817. Samuel Trapp Bom in the hamlet of Southam in Bishop’s Cleeve. . . (unfinished)
127. 23 July 1817. John Nicholas Born in Elston [PHelston], Cornwall, and has done no act to gain a settlement, (unfinished) 128. 12 August 1817. Maria Wilson, singlewoman Does not know where she was bom, but believes it was in Wales. A lady of the name of Conyngham bred her up, with whom she lived until her death about two years ago She went into the service of a woman named Shaw some time in June 1815, who agreed to pay her £20 a year, finding her board and lodging. From the mode of hiring she conceives she had a right to leave her at a moment’s notice. She served part of the first year at Kensington, but the last two months in Walcot in the City of Bath. From that time until . . . (unfinished)
129. 22 August 1817. Joseph Jones Born in Kingswinford, Staffs., and hath done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) I7 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 130. 26 August 1817. Ann Mills Born in St. Michael’s parish, Gloucester, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
13*- 28 August 1817. Peter Wheeler Bom in Bisley, where his parents resided, (mark)
132. 1 September 1817. George Pointer Bom in the town of Birmingham. Between 7 and 8 years ago was apprenticed to Mr. John Bingham of Birmingham for 7 years, and served the same, (mark)
i33- 2 September 1817. Hannah ?Hone Bom in Leckhampton . . . (unfinished) i34- 3 September 1817. George Sly Bom in Shipton. About a fortnight after last Michaelmas he took a house of (blank) a baker of Fairford, in the parish* of Arlington, for a year at £10, to include all taxes and out goings; he resided in it 4 or 5 months and carried on a trade therein, (mark) J35- 4 September 1817. John Skinner Bom in Kidderminster, Worcs. When about 12 or 13 he was apprenticed by the parish officers to Joseph Talbott of Kidder minster, carpet manufacturer, and continued in his employ 3 or 4 years, when he 'run away from his service’, (mark) 136. 5 September 1817. Joseph Collier Born in Frome, Somerset, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) *37- (No date.) Daniel Barker Bom at Ruscombe in Randwick. Believes his parents are settled in Stroud, as they receive relief from the officers of that parish, (mark) 138. 16 September 1817. Elizabeth Kellow, widow of Peter Kellow and formerly Elizabeth Soilass. Bom in Bengeworth, Worcs. About 18 years ago her father and mother with herself and their family were removed by the parish officers to Lye ?Sinton in Worcs. Soon after, she was taken by her mother’s sister, who is a hawker and pedlar, with whom she lived travelling about the country until she was married near six years ago to her late husband who was an Irishman and had never to her knowledge gained a settle ment in England. She has been in a state of vagrancy since his death, begging about the town of Cheltenham, and has no visible means of getting her livelihood, (mark) * Actually a hamlet in Bibury parish. 18 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 139. 19 September 1817. Sarah Stephens Born in Forth am pton. About five years ago she was hired by Mr. Clarke of Pendock, Worcs., farmer, for a year, and continued in his service three years, (mark) 140. 23 September 1817. Elizabeth Wilmot Bom in Newent. About 4 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Nash of Newnham for a year. She has lived in two or three services since, but all short of a year, (mark) 141. 23 September 1817. Mary Ann Chandler Bom in Painswick. She was hired by Mr. McKenzie of Chelten ham for a year, (unfinished) 142. (No date.) Daniel Cook Bom at Chelsea. About 7 years ago he left the service of Mr. John Swallow, nursery and seedsman, of Henley-on- Thames, Oxon., having lived with him as a yearly servant for seven years, (mark) 143. 30 September 1817. William Ayland He knows and is well acquainted with William Little, and lived with him at Brock worth in the service of Mrs. Hill. When he went into her service, which was a few days after Michael mas 1812, he found Little there, and they lived there within a few days of two years. Little appeared to be a yearly servant and lived in the house as shepherd and cowman, (mark) 144. 2 October 1817. Alice Harrison Bom in Cirencester, where her parents reside, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 145. 2 October 1817. John Powell Bom in Portsmouth. When about 15 he was apprenticed to John Dunn, flax dresser, of Bridport, Dorset, for 3 years, and served the same, (mark) 146. 2 October 1817. William Wheeler Bom at Frome, Somerset. At the age of 10 was apprenticed to Mr. James of Bristol for 7 years and served his time. He served in the artillery till the year 1815, when he was dis charged. (mark) 147. 7 October 1817. Thomas Brown Born in Remerton (now Worcs.) . . . (unfinished) 148. 12 October 1817. Elizabeth Maisey Bom in Beckford (now Worcs.). ‘Last March four years ago’ she went to Mrs. Neale at Boddington and was hired by her for a year to serve her in Cheltenham at wages of 10 guineas, (signs) 19 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 *49- 19 October 1817. Sarah Dean Born in Huntley, where her parents were settled, and hath done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs: Sarah Dane) 15°. 30 October 1817. Athelia Arnold Bom at Cooper’s Hill.* About two years ago was hired by Mrs. Drayton then of St. Mary de Lode parish, Gloucester, for a year, and served about one quarter, when Mrs. Drayton removed to the parish of (blank). At the end of the year she was hired for another, the whole of which she served, (unfinished) I5I- 4 November 1817. Susannah Paine, singlewoman Born in Chipping Norton, Oxon. About six years ago she was hired about the Spring till Michaelmas, and again for a year, by a Mrs. Higgin of Bredon (Worcs.). She served her said mistress that year and another. When she left, she was hired at the first Tewkesbury Mop by Mr. Butt of Norton to serve him for a year. The following year she was hired by Mr. Brick . . . (illeg.) at Remerton for a year. On the Monday before Old Michaelmas Day 1816 she was hired by Mrs. Rogers of Prestbury for a year, (mark) 152. 4 November 1817. Elizabeth Spencer, singlewoman Bom in Cheltenham. Between 3 and 4 years ago she went to London and was hired by a Mrs. Clarke of Davies Street, Berkeley Square, for no particular time but at a month’s wages or a month's warning. She continued in her service about nine months. She was again hired by a Mrs. Meade of Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, for no definite term, but continued between 7 and 8 months, when she returned to Cheltenham, (mark) 153. 11 November 1817. William Bowles Bom in the town of Birmingham. About 16 years ago was apprenticed to Richard Heads of Birmingham, silversmith, for 7 years, served about 4 years and 10 months, and then ‘inlisted for a soldier’, (mark) 154. 14 November 1817. Elizabeth Morgan Bom in Llanvenock, Co. of Brecknock, and was hired about 3 years ago to Mr. Robert Williams of PGlintone in the parish of Devenog, Brecknock. She stayed a whole year, (mark) 155. 14 November 1817. Mary Hailing Bora in Hanley, Worcs., where her parents resided, and has done no act in her own right to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) ♦ In Brockworth.
20 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 156. 17 November 1817. Richard Week Does not know where he was born. Upwards of 30 years ago he was hired by Mr. Clifford of Bourt on-on-the-Water for a year, (mark) x57* 18 November 1817. Thomas Stanley Bom in the City of Chester, and apprenticed by the parish officers of Prestyche [Prestwich], Lancs, for 9 years to James Somery, weaver, of that parish. He served the whole term, (signs) 158. 18 November 1817. Thomas Haines Bom in Prestbury. In 1779 he was apprenticed by the parish officers there to Mr. Appleby of Wolverhampton for 7 years. After he had stayed 22 days in his master’s service, his master died, and a few days after he went to London . . . (unfinished) I59- 24 November 1817. John Thomas Bom in Lian vegan, Brecknock. Four or five years ago he rented a tenement of William ?Marris in New Street, Carnaby Market, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, by the year at £35. (mark) 160. 27 November 1817. Thomas Wilkes Bom in Maisemore. At Gloucester first Mop about 8 years ago he was hired by Mr. Clarke of Hasfield for a year and continued in his service another year. He was hired by Mr. ? Young of Alstone for the harvest, and having met with an accident was discharged at the end of 12 weeks, (mark)
161. 2 December 1817. Rebecca Hawkins Bom in Heywood, Herefs. On the first day of January 1814 she was married in the church of St. Philip & Jacob, Bristol. Her late husband Thomas Hawkins and she went to live in Longney, Glos, upon an estate which he had previously disposed of for £500, and part of which he then rented as a yearly tenant. Soon after their marriage she separated from her husband and came to live in Cheltenham. Her husband died about six months ago. (mark) 162. 2 December 1817. Fanny Hinder Born in Castle Eaton, Wilts. About 5 years ago she was hired by Mr. Butt of Cheltenham for a year, and afterwards by Miss Cubitt for a year, (mark) 163. 8 December 1817. Elizabeth Watkins Bom in Arlingham. About 6 years ago was hired by Mr. William Phelps of Awre for a year, then by Mr. Prosser of Arlingham for a year, and continued in his service 4 years afterwards, (mark) 21 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 164. 9 December 1817. Susannah Smith Bom in Nailsworth. Some time in the summer of 1816 she was hired by Mrs. Gunton of Cheltenham for a year at £7. (mark) 165. 16 December 1817. Mary Finch Bom in Sodbury. About a year and nine months ago she was hired by James Butt of Cheltenham for a year at 6 guineas, (mark) 166. 30 December 1817. Thomas Bullock About 6 years ago next February he left the ‘Sun* public house in Cheltenham which he had rented for 3 years at £40 per annum. The following year he rented a house of Mr. Batchelor in Cheltenham for a year at £15. A short time before the end of his tenancy he went to a person Bretherton who was agent to a person in London and agreed to take a house consisting of 2 rooms below and three above, a brew house and a garden, at 6 shillings per week. He continued in possession for three years and paid his rent sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly, and sometimes quarterly. After 3 years a fresh landlord came, and he agreed to reduce the rent to 4s. a week, and he has continued so until the present period. Before he had been in possession quite 6 months he agreed to take a stable belonging to Mr. Tovey at £8 a year and con tinued in possession two years. The stable had room for six horses and a loft over it and was in the Black ?Friars. At Michaelmas twelvemonth last he agreed to rent a garden of Mr. Sims in Littleworth at two guineas and continued until Ladyday, when the landlord took forcible possession . . . (unfinished) 167. 16 January 1818. John Nash Bom in St. Andrew’s, City of Worcester, where his parents resided, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 168. 19 January 1818. William Jobson Bom at Evesham as he has been informed . . . (unfinished) 169. 7 February 1818. Joseph Beard Bom in Littledean, where his parents were legally settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 170. 9 February 1818. Richard Howard Bom in Shrewsbury, where his parents were legally settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 22 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
171. 10 February 1818. Richard Bumip Gardner Born in Upton St. Leonards. In 1807 or 1808 he was bound to Mr. William Powell of Gloucester for 4 years, to receive in wages 12s. a week the first year, 14s. the second, 18s. the third, and 1 guinea the fourth. For 3 years and between 8 and 9 months of the time he worked for Mr. Powell in Gloucester. When he was first apprenticed he lived with his father in Barton St. Mary parish, and after removed with his father to St. Aldate’s and lived there a year and a half, then to the Bear Land in St. Nicholas’s parish to a house belonging to a Mr. (blank) who is since dead but his wife is living. How long he resided there he cannot tell. He then came to Cheltenham, where Mr. Powell had a manufactory, and worked there until his term had expired, but during such time he went over to Gloucester on his master’s business frequently and always slept in the same lodgings he had occupied with his father. After his term had expired he continued to work for Mr. Powell and slept in the same house in St. Nicholas for several weeks, (signs: Richard Gardner)
172. 17 February 1818. William Compton Born in Sevenhampton, where his parents were last legally settled, (signs) Note: ‘Elizabeth, William Compton two years, Louisa 7 months’ I73* 24 February 1818. John Simmonds Bom in Shurdington. About 24 years ago was hired by Mr. Edwd. Ballinger of Alstone in Cheltenham for a year, then by Mr. Sparrow of Leckhampton for a year, and on leaving was again hired by Mr. Ballinger and continued until the end of his year, when he having slept out of his master's house several nights his master insisted on deducting 8s. from his wages, (mark) 174- 27 February 1818. Robert Evans Bom in Dursley, where his parents were legally settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 175- 3 March 1818. Maria Neale of Sevenhampton, singlewoman Born in Charlton Abbots. About 5 years ago she was hired by Mr. Hemming at Stow Mop for a year, then at Burford first Mop was hired by Mr. Silverton of Fullbrook, Oxon., for a year. She then came back to her father’s home in Seven hampton, where she has resided until the present time, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made. 6s. paid’ 23 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 176. 26 March 1818. Charles Morgan Bom in London, but his parents were settled at Peterston [sic, PPeterstow], Mon. About 5 years ago he was apprenticed by the parish officers of Peterston to Lewis Harris of Middle- ston Vader, Mon., for 4 years, and served the same, (mark) x77* 14 April 1818. Mary Parry Born in [blank) in the County of Hereford. About 8 or 9 years ago she was hired by Mr. White of Newnham for a year at the wages of £6, and continued 3 weeks more. Since then has not lived in any service one whole year, but a year or two after she was hired by Mr. Fawcett of Gloucester for a year, month's wages or month’s warning. A fortnight previous to the end of the year her master having hired another servant discharged her, having paid her whole year’s wages, (mark) 178. 27 April 1818. Mary Collins Bom at Stoke Orchard. About 13 or 14 years ago was hired by Mr. Arkwright of Gt. Malvern for a year. She has since received relief from Gt. Malvern parish for one of her bastard children, John, who was bom there, and she has one other bastard child, Edward, of the age of 11 years, also born in Malvern, (mark) *79- 28 April 1818. Mary Stephens, singlewoman Bom in St. Michael’s parish, Gloucester, and continued with her parents until the age of 16 when she came to Cheltenham, and hired herself to Mrs. ?Greening of that town, with whom she lived for two years. About 4 years ago she hired herself with a Mr. Pearce of Cheltenham, with whom she lived one year, (mark) 180. 29 April 1818. John Colley Bom at Newport, Salop. About 16 years ago he was hired by Mr. Horwood, auctioneer, of St. Luke’s parish, Chelsea, for a year at 20 guineas, served two years and then left, (signs) 181. 14 May 1818. John Maiden Bom in Winchcomb, (mark) 182. 14 May 1818. Mary Ann Lea, singlewoman Bom in Prestbury. About 7 or 8 years ago was hired by Miss Bryan of Cheltenham as a weekly servant at wages of one shilling per week with board, lodging, and washing. She continued about 12 months and says the contract might have been dissolved between her and her mistress by either party giving a week’s notice. After she left, she returned to her mother for some time and afterwards went into the service of Mr. 24 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 Watts of Cheltenham at wages of 1/6 per week, with board and lodging. She continued more than a year and conceived the contract might have been dissolved on either party’s giving a week’s notice, (unfinished) 183. (No date.) William Gilder Born in Winchcomb. In the early part of his life he lived with Mr. Durham of Postlip. About 14 or 15 years ago he was hired by the late Mr. Robert Raikes of Gloucester for a year. After living with Sir Thomas Crawley about 8 or 10 months he went to Bath and was hired by a Mr. Sealey for a year, with whom he lived in Bridgewater, Som.; he then returned to Bath, where he was hired by a Mr. ?Bure, with whom he lived 13 months at PBalcrystie in Scotland. After this he was hired for a year by General Roberson [sic] in Scotland, with whom he served 15 months, and for upwards of 4 months of the latter part of this service he lived with the General at the town of Thorp in Essex. After this he came to Cheltenham, where he has been living for near seven years in different employs, but at no time was he hired for a year, (mark) 184. 9 June 1818. William Wicksey Bom in Prestbury. About 14 years ago he went to live with Mr. Little of Leckhampton, between Ladyday and Michaelmas, at 4 guineas for his service from then until Michaelmas, when he was hired by Mr. Little for a year at £10. (mark) 185. 9 June 1818. Jasper Hawker of Staverton Bom in the hamlet of Southam. At Gloucester first Mop about 9 or 10 years ago he was hired by Mr. John Troughton of Badgeworth for a year at 5 guineas. He was not hired afterwards into any regular service but worked with different masters, (mark) Note: ‘Sarah, two children, Hannah two years, Mary 3 weeks’ i86. 23 June 1818. Mary Perry Bom in Eastington . . . (unfinished) 187. 30 June 1818. Elizabeth Giles, singlewoman Bom in St. Mary de Lode parish, Gloucester, and has lived with her mother from her infancy, never having been in service. Her mother and she have been residing in Cheltenham near 12 months, (mark) 188. 30 June 1818. Mary Peacy, of Charlton Kings, singlewoman Bom in Cheltenham, and has lived there all her life but never gained a settlement there. Her father William Peacy has often told her he was a parishioner of Winchcomb, and he did during his lifetime to her knowledge receive parochial aid from the officers of Winchcomb, (mark) 25 4 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 189. 14 July 1818. Robert Sandford of Prestbury, aged 53 years Bom in Eastnor, Herefs. About 18 years ago he was hired at Upton Mop before Old Michaelmas Day by Mr. Fletcher of Ilfracombe, Worcs., for a year, and continued for three years after, (mark)
igo. 18 July 1818. Henry Moncrief Bom in Dean, Cumberland, and apprenticed when about 14 to John Pegin of Whitehaven, ship carpenter, for 7 years, and served the whole time, (signs)
191. 23 July 1818. Thomas Niff Bom in St. Clements, Middx. Apprenticed to Mr. Byrch of Cartmill, Lancs., and served 11 years with him in Coulton, Lancs, (mark)
192. 8 August 1818. Ann Wheeler Bom in Poulton, Wilts. About two years ago was hired by Mr. Sutton of Minety for a year at 4 guineas, (mark) 193- 11 August 1818. Wm. Pan ter Bom in Sevenhampton. About 12 or 13 years ago he was hired by Mr. Griffith of St. Nicholas parish [PGloucester] for a year. About 4 years ago he was hired by Mr. Sheldon by the week at 9s. per week, a month’s wages or a month’s warning to be given by either party. He continued in that service about 11 weeks. He then earned his livelihood by working for several people, and after a twelvemonth Mr. Sheldon sent for him again and hired him by the week for a year on the same terms as before. He served from 2nd March until August, when in consequence of an accident he left Mr. Sheldon’s service for a week. He then resumed his employment until the 3rd or 4th of March when his year expired, (unfinished) 194. 11 August 1818. Sarah Bagot Bom in Redmarley, Worcs. About 4 years ago she was hired by Mr. Blakeway of Tewkesbury for a year, and continued a year and nine months, (mark) 195. 25 (August 1818). Thomas Trough ton Bom in Stoke Orchard. About 25 or 26 years ago he was hired by Mr. Cook of Norton for a year at £9 or 9 guineas. About 30 years ago he purchased a piece of land in Bishop’s Cleeve for £30 but never resided there, (mark) 196. 3 September 1818. Sarah Barrow Bom at Apperley [in Deerhurst]. About 8 years ago was apprenticed by her father to Miss Butt of St. John’s parish, Gloucester, for 3 years, and served the same, (not signed) 26 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 197- 5 September 1818. James Barrett Born in the City of Glasgow, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (mark)
198. 9 September 1818. Ann Tanner Born in Cheltenham. About 14 or 15 years ago she went to live with Mr. Dutton who then resided in Cheltenham, and accompanied him to Birmingham, where she remained with him as a servant for about 8 years, in St. Philip’s parish. Her master paid her what he thought proper. She has since been in several services and about 18 months ago went to Sir John Macpherson in Cheltenham as a weekly servant at half a guinea a week, to assist in the lodging-house kept by her sister. She, this deponent, is now pregnant, and believes she is past her time and expects to be brought to bed every hour, (signs)
199- 17 September 1818. Sarah Acton, wife of Wm. Acton, now residing in Cheltenham About 3 years ago she and her husband, who were settled in Cheltenham, went to Shrewsbury; no act was done to gain a settlement there. About 2 years ago they and their family went to Worcester, where her husband took a lodging at 3s. per week in the parish of St. Nicholas, and continued a twelvemonth, working for Mr. Powley, a builder. Her husband then took a house in Claines, Worcs. at the yearly rent of £9 : 10 : o, continuing in possession about 13 months; the house belonged to Mr. Griffin of Worcester, publican and builder, and she paid him £2:7:6 for the third quarter’s rent. After her husband had been there about a quarter of a year he commenced business for himself as a carpenter. His first work was for a Mr. Holland, making two verandahs; Mr. Holland asked a Mr. Chapman to allow him to put the verandahs together in his shed and after this her husband continued in occupation of a particular part of the shed for three quarters of a year, doing work for Mr. Chapman during his occupancy. After her husband left her she took in a bill of one guinea against Mr. Chapman, and there was a work box and timber to the value together of £2 : 10 : o, estimated by a person she took with her, in the presence of Mr. Chapman's bookkeeper. The next morning she took in her bill and asked Mr. Chapman if he would take the timber. He answered she might as well value his goods, for he had received nothing for the shop and should charge her £2 for the rent of it. Mr. Chapman afterwards refused to pay any part of the debt as he desired part of the timber that was left, (mark) 27 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
200. 21 September 1818. John Read Bom at Edinburgh in Scotland, and has not done any act to gain a settlement in England, (signs: John Reed) 201. 26 September 1818. Abigail Twig Born in Holy Cross, Pershore, Worcs. About 4 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Morris of that parish for a year. She lived with her mistress in Pershore a year and a half and then accompanied her to Barton, Worcs. and lived with her there about half a year, (mark)
202. 13 October 1818. Sarah Bowell Bom in Charleton, Oxon. . . . (unfinished) 203. 13 October 1818. Prudence Mayo Bom in St. Peter’s parish in the City of Worcester. About 2| years ago she was hired by the Rev. Mr. Walton of Chelten ham for a year, lived with him a year and 10 months and then left his service. On 27 April last she was delivered of two bastard children in the parish of St. Peter’s, Worcester, and Mr. Hicks of London is the father, (signs) 204. 27 October 1818. Richard Burrows Bom in Whittington . . . (unfinished) 205. 3 November 1818. Sarah Collins Bom in Southrop, as she believes. About 6 years ago was hired by Mr. Wm. Lowton of Bouthrop (Eastleach Martin) for a year, lived with him 3 years and then left, (mark) 206. 3 November 1818. George Lediard Bom in Ledbury, Herefs., where his parents were settled, and hath been working in Cheltenham by the week for several several years past, (mark) 207. 30 November 1818. Joshua Wood Bom in Painswick, where his parents were settled, (mark) 208. 1 December 1818. Ann Onslow Bom in All Saints’ parish, Worcester, and lived 2| years with Mr. Hall in St. Andrew’s, Worcester, (mark)
209- 8 December 1818. Sarah Hitchcox Bom in Norton. When 9 months old she followed her father to St. Michael’s parish, Gloucester, where he acquired a settle ment. (mark)
210. 8 December 1818. James Staite Bom in Winchcomb. At Tewkesbury first Mop in 1813 he was hired by Mr. Evans of Deerhurst for a year. About 5 weeks before Christmas 1814 he was hired by the Rev. Mr. 28 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 Neale at 13s. per week. After 3 weeks he married. He continued in Mr. Neale's service considerably over a year and about the end of the first year the wages were reduced, (mark) 211. 8 December 1818. George Curtis Bom in Norton. At Gloucester Mop or Statute Fair nine years ago last Michaelmas he was hired by Mr. Thomas Marston of Norton for a year, (mark) 212. 8 December 1818. Comfort Davis (cf. no. 65) Bom in Haresfield, and has done no act since to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) 213. 8 December 1818. Patience Hogg Bom in Stroud, and has done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 214. 8 December 1818. Joseph Gardner (See also no. 215) Bom in Cirencester. At Cirencester first Mop about 18 years ago he was hired by Mr. Baylis of Dowdeswell for a year. Has never lived in any service a twelve month since, (mark) Note: ‘Sarah Gardner, Eliza of the age of 5 years, Catherine 18 months. Married last August at Cheltenham by the Rev. Mr. Davis, one child bom at St. James’s, Birmingham and registered in the new church, the other bom at St. Andrew’s, Worcester’
215. 12 December 1818. Sarah Gardner, late Sarah Woolford, wife of Joseph Gardner of Dowdeswell. About 6 years ago last October she was delivered of a female bastard child in the parish of St. James’s, Birmingham. About 2 years ago last May she was delivered of a female bastard child in St. Andrew’s parish, Worcester, (mark) 216. 14 December 1818. John Cole Bom in Roel. About two years ago was hired by Mr. Watts of Uckington for a year, (mark)
217. 16 December 1818. Joseph Gillett Bom in Hailes. At Cheltenham first Mop about 12 years ago was hired by Mr. Davis of Leckhampton for a year. Has been in the army till within the last 18 months, (mark) 218. 16 December 1818. Elizabeth Dean (cf. no. 247) Bom in Huntley. About 5 or 6 years ago she was hired by Mr. Smith of Highnam for a year, and continued near 15 years [sic, presumably months], (mark) 219. 17 December 1818. Henry Pouten Green Bom in Tewkesbury, as he believes . . . (unfinished) 29 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
220. (No date.) William Sprigg Bom in Cheltenham. Has heard that his father was settled in St. Mary Orchards in Exeter, by renting a house, (mark) 221. 29 December 1818. Job Thorp Bom in St. Michael’s, Lichfield, Staffs., and served a regular apprenticeship to a coachmaker at Woodstock. He then went to Banbury, where he took a house and shop of the yearly rent of 14 pounds or guineas. He continued in possession a year and a half and paid the rent to his landlord, Mr. Timothy Cobb. About a quarter of a year ago he took a ready furnished lodging in Cheltenham, for which he pays 6s. per week, but that without the furniture the room is in his judgement not worth 3s. per week. (signs) Note: 'He was married 12 years ago at Aston, Oxon. to Susannah his present wife, and they have 4 children living, Robert aged 10 years, jane, 7, Horatio, 5, and John, 3 years. On re-examination states that for 8 weeks in the middle of the summer he rented one room in the house of . . . (unfinished)
222. 5 January 1819. Mary Lewis Her husband John Lewis was bom in St. James’s, Westminster, where his parents now reside, and she has repeatedly received relief from the parish officers there, (mark) 223. 8 January 1819. William Spriggs Bom in Cheltenham, and has done no act himself to gain a settlement, but his father rented a house in the parish of St. Mary Orchard, Exeter, for £xo a year and lived in it some years. He has twice received relief from the parish officers there, where he was examined as to his parish and declared to be settled there, (mark) 224. 11 January 1819. William Hyett Bom in Ebrington. About 5 or 6 years ago he rented a house of William Abbot at Banbury at £10 per annum, occupied it a year, and paid the rent. On coming to Cheltenham he took a house at the yearly rent of £ro of Mr. Hall in ^Rutland Street, and continued in possession about half a year, (un finished) 225. 19 January 1819. Sarah Acton, wife of William Acton (amplifying no. 199) She and her children continued in occupation of the house at Claines until six days before Midsummer 1818, when the tenancy expired. Her husband left Claines for good about nine days after Ladyday 1818, and went to Bath, where he stayed in lodgings at no. 15 Union Passage, (mark) 30 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 226. 28 January 1819. John Whalley Bom in St. Nicholas’s, Gloucester, where his parents resided. About 17 or 18 years ago he was hired by Mr. Spencer of Remerton for a year at 10s. weekly from Michaelmas to Michaelmas to look after his tithe farm in Uckington. He lived a whole year with Mr. Spencer and slept the whole year at Uckington except about a week at Remerton. Previously he was hired by Mr. Cook of Cheltenham for a year at 10 guineas, (unfinished) 227- 28 January 1819. Sarah Chew Bom in Ireland. Her parents are settled in Stroud, (mark) 228. 2 February 1819. George Sly Bom in Shipton Mile, Wilts. About 11 years ago was hired by Mr. Cox of Whittali Farm to live at Rnowle Hill in Prestbury for a year, and lived there two years, (unfinished)
229. 9 February 1819. Samuel Hulbert Bom in Cheltenham. About 7 years ago was apprenticed by the Gloucestershire Society to William Mustoe of Badgeworth, wheelwright, for 7 years. He lived with his master about 3 years and his master then went to five in Shurdington, where he lived with him two years, (signs)
230. 18 February 1819. Mary Affield Bom in Churchdown. About 5| years ago she was hired by Mr. Hill of Redmarley, Worcs., for a year, then by Mr. Stallard of Redmarley for a year and served years, (mark)
231. 19 February 1819. Mary Martin, wife of John Martin Bom in Lower Harford. About two years ago her husband took a house of Mr. Phillips in Bourton-on-the-Hill at the yearly rent of £10, lived there three-quarters of a year and then left the parish, (mark)
232. 6 March 1819. William Hitchman Bom in Burford, Oxon., and has done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 233- 9 March 1819. Robert Hopton Bom in the Vill of Wotton. About 9 years ago he rented a farm of Mr. Hopkinson in Badgeworth at the yearly rent of £150, lived there a year and paid £75 for half a year’s rent, (signs)
234’ 9 March 1819. John Woolford Bom in Haysey, Wilts. About 16 or 17 years [ago] he was hired at Highworth mop or statute fair to Mr. John Hunter of Starton [Staverton] for a year, (signs)
3i CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 235- ii March 1819. Daniel Miles Bom at Frog Castle near Gloucester. Hath been informed that his father rented a house and premises in Key (Quay) Lane in St. Nicholas, Gloucester at the yearly rent of £20, where he lived some years, (signs) 236. 16 March 1819. Anthony Stringer Bom in Kidlington, Oxon. About 12 years ago he went to live with Mr. Statum of the George Inn at Dodchester [?Dor chester] as an ostler, where he lived about 4I years; he received no regular wages but was allowed such money as was given him in the yard and stables by the guests frequenting the house, (mark) 237- 13 April 1819. Mary Bond Bom in Charlton Kings. About 2| years ago Mrs. Pates of Charlton Kings sent for her to assist her in the household work one day; in the evening Mrs. Pates said she should like her to stay as long as she wanted her and that she would give her two shillings a week for her purse. Under this contract she continued in Mrs. Pates’s service 2| years and received her wages as she wanted it and at some times as much as £1. When she left she received £1, being the amount of her wages to that time, (mark) 238. 15 April 1819. William Harper Bom in Leckhampton. About 7 or 8 years ago was hired at Cheltenham first Mop or statute fair to Mr. Butt of the hamlet of Alstone for a year at 3 guineas yearly, (mark) 239- 19 April 1819. John Pensom Bom at Brockhampton in Sevenhampton. On 23 May 1804 he was apprenticed to William Freeman, cordwainer, of Prestbury for 7 years, but the indenture is not under seal. He served the 7 years and has since worked in several places as a journeyman, but never lived in any service one whole year or rented a tenement of the yearly value of £10. (signs) 240. 20 April 1819. Ann Green About 14 years ago she was married to John Green, then a private soldier in the 44th Foot. She has frequently heard her husband say that his settlement was in the City of Durham, he having been bom and apprenticed in that town. He was discharged from the army about a year and a half ago and went to Durham, and soon after quitted it for Liverpool and other places for work. About 12 weeks ago her husband died, and she is now on the road with her two children, Maria and Catherine Green, to Durham, her husband’s settlement, but having no money she has been obliged to solicit charity, (mark) 32 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 241. 27 April 1819. Eliza Lane Bom at Knighton in Radnor, and has not done any act to gain a settlement in her own right, (signs) 242. 4 May 1819. Caroline Welch (See nos. 12 and 17) Bom in Cheltenham, and has never done any act to gain a settlement in her own right, (unfinished) 243- 12 May 1819. Hester Millard Bom in Bamwood. About six years ago she married John Millard, who was last settled at Haselton by hiring and service, from the parish officers of which place her husband several times received relief. Her husband died about 2 months ago, since which time she has received relief from the parish officers of Haselton. (signs: Esther Millard) Note: ‘Thomas of the age of 4 years’ 244. 19 May 1819. Elizabeth Coleman, wife of George Coleman About 13 years ago she intermarried with George Coleman, who was a chaise boy. They cohabited together before the marriage at the house of Mrs. Wilkes in Cheltenham. Coleman took the room at four shillings a week ready furnished and continued in it about 16 months. There was a bed and chest- of-drawers and other furniture in the room. On leaving she and her husband went to a house belonging to a grocer in (blank) Street, where he again took a ready furnished lodging at 5s. a week and continued therein for five weeks or thereabouts, (unfinished) 245. 20 May 1819. Prudence Mayo, singlewoman On 20 April 1818 she was delivered of two male bastard children since named Thomas and William Henry, in the parish of St. Peter’s in the county of Worcester. The children have not been nurtured by her since November last and have been living separate from her. Being unable to maintain them she is willing that they should be removed to the place of their legal settlement, they having become chargeable to the parish in Cheltenham, (signs) 246. 1 June 1819. William Hunt Bom in Oxen [sic], Northants. When about 9 years old he was apprenticed by the parish officers there to James Comthwaite at Sheffield till he was 21 years of age, and served the whole time, (signs) 247. 3 June 1819. Elizabeth Dean Bom in Huntley. About six years ago was hired by Mr. Smith of Higham [Highnam] for a year, and continued near a year and a half, (mark) 33 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 248. 7 June 1819. Robert Hunter Bom in Ayr in North Britain, and has never done any act to gain a settlement in England, (mark) 249. 7 June 1819. John Edwards Born in Cirencester. Six years ago last Michaelmas he took a farm at Leckhampton belonging to Mr. Trye at the yearly rent of £900, and continued in occupation until May 1816, when he left the country and went to reside in the neighbour hood of London. The first tenement he took by the year was in Fulham, on 28 February 1817, agreeing to pay £30 per annum rent. He continued in occupation about 3 months, and then went to Deptford, where he took some ready furnished apartments at 4/6 a week, for about 12 months. He then went to Greenwich and took a house of Mr. Selby at £20 per annum, which he occupied about a quarter of a year; then to Chatham, where he took a house of Mr. Donnall at £10 yearly. After living there with his family about 11 weeks he went to Hopping, at the same time holding possession of the key. He was absent a month or 5 weeks, when he returned to his house at Chatham, where he slept one night and then removed with all his household goods. He did not return the key at that time, but took a lodging in Turk Street in Bethlem Green [?Bethnal Green] at 3/6 a week for not exceeding six weeks, but before he had been there a month he returned the key of the Chatham house to his landlord. From Turk Street he went to White chapel, where he took a ready furnished lodging at 4s. a week, (signs) 250. 10 June 1819. James Barry Bom in the County of Cork, Ireland, and hath done no act to gain a settlement in any other county, (mark) 251. 15 June 1819. Ann Eldridge Bom in Chatham, Kent, where her parents now reside, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 252. 16 June 1819. Timothy Harrington Bom in Ireland. When he left he was about 30 years of age. He went to London and rented a house in St. Olive’s, South wark, ten years at the yearly rent of £14. He also lived with Mr. Preston in the same parish for 3| years as a yearly servant, (mark) 253. 6 July 1819. John Roe Bom at Berkeley, and has been in H.M. naval service for 14 years and upwards. In 1811 he was hired by Captain Broughton, who resided then atThe Crescent, Cheltenham, as his butler, and continued in his service three years. He went 34 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 with his master to Portsmouth, where they went on board H.M.S. Temairaire [sic] and in four days sailed for the Mediter ranean. He was in this voyage two years and then returned to Portsmouth, where he was paid his wages and discharged. He then entered into a merchant’s employ, where he remained two years and upwards. Soon after he was discharged he was taken ill and sent to the Bristol Hospital, where he remained until a few days ago. (mark)
254- 20 July 1819. Edward Williams Bom in St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs)
255- 22 July 1819. Benjamin Cambridge Born in Bisley. About 12 years ago, about 5 weeks after Old Michaelmas, he was hired to Mr. Barrett of the Crown Inn, Cheltenham until the following Michaelmas' at wages of £3 : 10 : o. He left this service before New Michaelmas, when his master only paid him £3. He afterwards apprenticed himself to Richard Taylor of Poulton, Wilts, for four years, lived with his master upwards of a twelvemonth as his appren tice and continued as a day-labourer until within the last twelvemonth, (signs)
256. 27 July 1819. John Jordan Bom in Cheltenham. About 9 or 10 years ago he was hired by Mr. Read of Brockhampton for a year, and continued a year and a half longer, (unfinished)
257- 7 September 1819. Thomas James Born in Stanley Pontlarge. Between 18 and 19 years ago he was hired by Mr. Wm. Proctor of Strensham at £7 for a year. He was then hired by Mr. Peacey of Pardon Hill, {blank), for a year, at 12s. per week, served that year, and another year at 15s. per week. The following year he was hired by Mr. John Fisher of Cheltenham, but Mr. Fisher giving up the farm he was discharged after about half the year. He was afterwards hired by Mr. Hall of Cheltenham for a year at 15s. per week, (mark)
258. 18 October 1819. John Bayly Bom in Hardwicke. About 34 years ago was hired by Mr. Dean of the Black Horse in St. Mary de Crypt parish, Gloucester, as ostler, and continued in his service near four years. He was to receive one shilling when he brewed and all the vails as a compensation in wages, (mark) 35 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 259* 20 October 1819. Martha Howe Born in Shipton [Shepton] Mallet, Somerset. About 5 years ago was married to Dennis Howe, who was bom in St. Giles’s, Middlesex, to which parish they were removed about 3| years ago by order of justices and remained in the work house there about two months. Her husband has not gained any settlement elsewhere, (mark) 260. 22 October 1819. Thomas Wills Bom in Cheltenham, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere. 261. 26 October 1819. Thomas Pink, now residing in Cheltenham Has no knowledge where he was bom. When about 11 years old he lived at Medhurst [Midhurst] in Sussex, and worked at the different inns in the said town. He thinks he lived there near a twelvemonth, when he went to Chichester, where he was employed as a chaise driver and where he remained a week or a fortnight. He was then hired as postillion in the family of Lord PDowne, where he thinks he resided near three years. He then was hired by Admiral Montague, where he resided a full year, then went to live with Snell Esqr. in the parish of Kingston near Portsmouth, where he resided a full year; and this he states to be the last place of servitude wherein he resided for a full year. He then came to Binford, Oxon., where he married and entered into the employ of Mr. John Heath as a driver of his coaches (as a weekly servant), with whom he continued for near 20 years. For the last 7 years he has lived in Cheltenham in different employs. (mark) 262. 28 October 1819. Thomas Perkins Bom in Cranham. About 5 years ago was hired by Wm. Cother of Haresfield for a year at 8 guineas. (mark) 263. 2 November 1819. Mary Middlecutt Bom in Daglingworth. About seven or eight and twenty years ago she was hired by Mr. Giles Rogers of Foxcote in Withington for a year at £4, and lived with him upwards of a year and received her wages. Last July two years she was hired by Mrs. Rogers of Prestbury as nurse by the week at 3s. per week; she lived with her near two years and considered herself at liberty to leave her employ at the end of any week, (mark) 264. 2 November 1819. Patience Brassington, singlewoman Bom in Siddington St. Mary. About 15 years ago she was hired by the Revd. Mr. Wynne at Claverton near Bath for a year and remained in service 11 months, when the family removed to some other place and she received her year’s wages and was discharged. She has not been hired for a year since that time but hath lived in different places for short periods, (mark) 36 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 265. 8 November 1819. Dinah Guy Born in Writtie in Essex. About 3 years ago she was hired by Mr. Davis of Leighton, Essex, by the year, and lived with him about two years. On 4 Nov. 1818 she was hired by Mrs. Stagg of Surrey Square, London, for a year at wages of 12 guineas, and remained with her until February last, when she accom panied her to Cheltenham, where they have been living since, and that she is now actually in Mrs. Stagg’s employ, (signs) 266. 10 November 1819. David Lewis, aged 40 years and upwards Born in Rhayader, in the Co. of Radnor, and worked in the mines for several years. In 1797, when he was 23 years of age, he entered the army. About 2| years ago he was dis charged with a pension, and worked in several places to the present time. His father resided in Rhayader all his time and was possessed of a cottage and about an acre of land there, (mark) 267. 23 November 1819. Edward Wetherstone Bom in Brize Norton, Oxon. About 40 years ago he took a farm in Withington at the yearly rent of £30, in which he lived about 30 years, and has been working ever since as a day labourer, (signs) 268. 25 November 1819. Elizabeth Ballinger Born in Cheltenham, where her parents were settled. About 26 years ago she was married to Samuel Ballinger, who was also settled at Cheltenham. Her husband died about 10 years ago, leaving her and 4 children. She has been living in different places as chairwoman and other situations, (signs) 269. 1 December 1819. Michael Killigar Bom in Ireland, and has never done any act to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (signs)
270. 7 December 1819. Robert Blakeney Bom at Dublin in Ireland, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (unfinished)
271. 9 December 1819. John Bliss Bom in Cheltenham. When about 10 or 11 years of age he was apprenticed to Thos. Kitchen of Bishop’s Cleeve, cord- wainer, for 7 years. He served about one year and then run away in consequence of ill usage from his master. He was taken before the magistrates, who ordered him to go back and he did so, but soon afterwards left his master again. He has been ever since travelling about except for ten years when he was in the Navy, (signs) 37 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 272. 16 December 1819. Harriet Pendry Bom in Leigh, where her parents were settled. About 5 years ago she was hired by Mr. Billings of Cheltenham who then lived at Albion Cottage, for a year at £5 yearly, lived with him the whole year and received her wages, (mark) 273. 18 December 1819. Robert Pitt Bom in Castle Morton, Worcs. About 4 years ago he was apprenticed by the Rev. Henry Foulkes, a trustee of a charity founded by the Rev. Wm. Stansby, to John Pitt of Dymock, blacksmith and wheelwright, for 7 years. He remained with him about 3 years and then his master sent him home. About 2 months afterwards he accompanied his master and his master’s brother William Pitt of Forthampton to the office of Mr. Lovett, a solicitor of Cheltenham, when an agreement was drawn up transferring his service to William Pitt for the remainder of the said term. He went to live with Wm. Pitt and continued in his service about one year, and then in conse quence of a serious wound in his leg he was removed to the Gloucester Infirmary. Note: ‘14 March 1820. Removed by orders to Forthampton’ 274. 22 December 1819. Ann Herbage Bom in PWelbon, Worcs. On 23 March 1817 was hired by Mr. Benbow of the White Lion Inn in Upton-upon-Sevem for a year, (mark) 275. 24 December 1819. Hannah Williams Bom in Charlton Abbots. Seven years last Michaelmas she was hired by Mr. Cherrington of Southam for a year. Three days before Old Lady Day 1814 she was hired by Mr. Barnard of Whitfield to serve him until Old Michaelmas, and then for a year at 7 guineas. She continued until 3 days before Old Lady Day last year and then in consequence of illness she left and received her wages, (mark) 276. 4 January 1820. John Nunney Bom in Burford, Oxon. When about 14 he was apprenticed to his father, of Burford, for 7 years, and lived with him the whole time, (signs) Note: ‘Ann his wife, Josh, Ann and John 3 children, 5 years, 3 years, 1 year’ 277. 4 January 1820. Thomas Dodwell Born in Cheltenham . . . (unfinished) 278. 11 January 1820. Joseph Lowe Bom in Badgeworth. About 8 years ago he was hired by Daniel Walker of Up Hatherley for a year at wages of £14. Two years 38 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 ago last Michaelmas he took a house in Badgeworth of Mr. Sadler of Bentham for a year at 4 guineas, continued for about two months, then went to Charlton Kings and took a house of John Hamlet for a year at 6 guineas, and has lived there ever since, (unfinished) 279- 20 January 1820. Jonathan Taylor Bom in Leigh. About 20 years ago was apprenticed by the parish officers of Leigh to Thomas Andrews of Tewkesbury, cloth weaver, for 7 years, and served the whole time, (mark) Note: ‘Phoebe Taylor his wife, Thomas 3 years old, and their infant child.’
28o. 20 January 1820. Joseph Hawkins Bom in Southam. About 12 years ago he was hired by James Barnes of Tirley for a year, (mark) Note: ‘Martha his wife, Mary Ann 5 years, Nathaniel 3 years, Charlotte Maria 6 mos.’ 281. 22 January 1820. James Colwell, now living at Cheltenham Bom in Westbury-on-Severn. Upwards of 20 years ago he was hired by the late Mr. Pickering of Cleeve for a year as groom and continued in his service under yearly contracts for several years. He was lawfully married about 5 years ago to Mary his present wife, (signs) 282. 28 January 1820. Anthony Owen Bom in the parish of Forthampton. At Gloucester first Mop holden about 5 years ago he was hired by Mr. Butcher of Standish for a year at ten guineas, and continued in his service two years, (mark) 283. 2 February 1820. George Webb Bom at Birmingham, where his parents were legally settled, (mark) 284. 22 February 1820. Abraham Waters Bom in Cheltenham, as he has been informed, (unfinished) 285. 22 February 1820. John Hinds Bom in Wrexham, Denbighshire, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 286. 22 February 1820. Thomas Rogers Bom in Healing [Ealing], Middx., where his parents were legally settled . . . (unfinished) 287. 3 March 1820. John Morgan Bom at Windsor, Berks., where his parents were legally settled, and has done no act since to gain a settlement else where. (mark) 39 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 288. 7 March 1820. Sarah Archer Bom in Oaksey, Wilts. About 5 or 6 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Banks of Bowbridge in Stroud, for a year, (mark)
289. 8 March 1820. James Clements Bom at Sandwich, Kent, where his parents were settled, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
290. 13 March 1820. Benjamin Burgess Bom at St. John’s, New Brunswick. About 14 years ago he was apprenticed by his father to James Johnson of Berwick- upon-Tweed, ship owner, for 7 years, lived with him about two years, and then left his employ, (mark)
291. 16 March 1820. Oliver Richards Bom in Leigh. About 7 years [ago] he was apprenticed by Mr. Webb to Mr. Niblett of Maisemore, cordwainer, for seven years. He remained with him about three-quarters of a year, during which time he was in his master’s house; and then run away, (mark)
292. 24 March 1820. James Hawker Bom in Wootten, Glos. [PWotton St. Mary]. About 18 years ago he was hired to Mr. Thomas Piff of Twigworth for a year at wages of nine guineas, (mark) Note: ‘Esther his wife, Wm. of the age of 14, Jack of 12, Mary 9, Chas. 7, Sarah 3 years/
293- 30 March 1820. William Wigley Bom at Condover, Salop. About 40 years ago he was hired by a Mr. Philip King of Camberwell, Surrey, for a year, (mark)
294- 1 April 1820. Richard Whithome Bom at Fiddington in Ashchurch. About 5 years ago he was hired by Mr. Proctor of Strensham, Worcs., farmer, for a year, at 15s. per week, (mark)
295. 8 March [sic, doubtless April] 1820. John Day, labourer Bom in Side. About seven years ago was hired by William Ballinger of Cheltenham at the first Mop for a year from Michaelmas Day. He left the following Michaelmas Day, when he went home to his friends. The next day he was hired by his father William Day for a year at the wages of £10. A day or two after Michaelmas the following year he agreed with his father to work with him in his business and to share the money they earned in equal parts, and was to pay his father 7/- per week for his board and lodgings, (mark) 40 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815--1826 296. 15 April 1820. Hannah Ricketts Bom in Churcham, where her parents were legally settled. About 9^ years ago she was married to her late husband Hugh Ricketts, of some parish in Shropshire near Bishop’s Castle. They went to London and resided in St. Martin-in- the-Fields and gave for their house 16 guineas per year. They remained in the house about four years until her hus band’s death, when she went into lodgings. About two years ago last Christmas she was hired by Mr. Pigott of Cheltenham for a year at wages of 16 guineas, and continued in his service about 11 years, (mark) 297- 17 April 1820. John Willis Born in Camartin, Devon. When about 13 years of age he was hired by Mr. John Charley of Cam ar tin for a year, (mark) 298. 21 April 1820. Benjamin Curtis Bom in Authorp [Althorpe], Lincs. About six years ago rented a tenement of Mr. ? Howard in Warwick Lane, Christ Church, City of London, by the year at the rent of £50, and continued about 3 years there, (signs)
299- 25 April 1820. Mary Cowen Born in ?Llangovelen, Glamorgan, and apprenticed by her father to Miss Williams of Swansea for three years, and duly served her apprenticeship, (unfinished) 3°o. 2 May 1820. Henry Hemming Born in Little Barrington. When about 10 years old was apprenticed to John Nunny of Burford, Oxon., cordwainer, for 7 years, and continued in his service six years and three- quarters. About 4 years ago he was married to Mary Dowsett, since which she has had two children, John aged 3 years and Richard 15 months, (mark)
30i. 6 May 1820. William Griffin Born in Old Swinford, Glos, [sic, trecte Staffs.]. About six years ago he was hired by Edward P. Carruthers Esquire of Brownshill in Painswick by the year, and continued in his service as butler about 13 months, (signs) 302. 6 May 1820. Edward Bingle Born in Minchin hampt on. When about 17, on the 6th July 1806, he entered into articles of agreement, by consent of his father Richard Bingle, to James Brewer of Stonehouse, stonemason, for 4 years. He continued the whole term. He has two children bom in lawful wedlock: Hannah of the age of 6 years and Mary 4 years, but his wife has been dead about two years, (mark) 4i 5 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 303. 9 May 1820. James Shayler Bom in Hampnett, where his parents were settled. In 1807 he was hired by Mr. William Blist of Cheltenham, blacksmith, for a year, (mark) 304. 10 May 1820. Ann Smith Bom at Dundock [doubtless Dundalk] in the Kingdom of Ireland, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (mark) 305. 16 May 1820. Sarah Wood, singlewoman Bom in Gotherington, and hath done no act to gain a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) 306. 8 June 1820. Edward Hill Bom at Ludlow, Salop, where his parents are residing and settled, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 307. 8 June 1820. William Crump, (cf. no. 378) Bom in Dumbleton. About 27 years [ago] he rented a farm in Winchcombe and Sudeley, but resided in Winchcomb, at the rent of £500 a year, and continued in occupation of it about 20 years, (signs) Note: ‘Elizth. his wife, Charlotte 4 years, Thomas 1 year’ 308. 13 June 1820. Sarah Bullock Bom in St. Helen’s parish, City of Worcester, where her parents are settled, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 309. T3 June 1820. Jane Court Bom in the City of Worcester where her parents are now residing, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (signs) 310. 13 June 1820. Patience Hall Bom in Stroud, where her parents are settled, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 311. 15 June 1820. Ann Leonard Bom in Ireland. About 5 years ago she was married to her late husband John Leonard at Carlisle, where he was born and legally settled. Her husband died about four months ago. (mark) 312. 20 June 1820. Thomas Bishop Bom in Upton-upon-Sevem, Worcs., where they [sic, doubtless his parents] resided. His father’s parish was Elsfield, as he has been informed by him. (mark) 42 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 3T3* 22 June 1820. Hannah Parker, of Strensham, Worcs., singlewoman Born at Southam in Bishop’s Cleeve. About four years ago she lived with Mr. Lawrence of ?Ham Dayhouse for a year. She afterwards went to live for two years with her friends at Southam. Last Michaelmas twelvemonth she was hired by Mr. Merryman of Strensham, Worcs. for a year at wages of 2 guineas, (mark)
3<4- 23 June 1820. John Matthews Bom in Arnold, Notts., where his parents are legally settled and has done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
3*5- 26 June 1820. William Wood Bom at Grenick [doubtless Greenock] in Scotland, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) Note: ‘Maria. William 4 years.’ 316. 27 June 1820. Julia Swain Born in Southampton. About 9 years ago she was married to Robert Swain who was born at Kingston-upon-Hull where, he is now legally settled, (signs)
3i7- 7 July 1820. James Reeve Born at Monmouth, but his parents are settled in Lanvino [?Llanfills] in Brecknock; has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark)
318. 20 July 1820. John Eves Born in Henney, Essex, where his parents were settled. In 1804 he was hired to Mr. Isaac Manning of Wickham, Essex, for a year at six guineas. Since that time he has been in the army. In 1813 was married to Ann Simms in St. Mary’s parish in Nottingham, and has had one child now living in the said parish of Henney. (mark)
3*9- 21 July 1820. John Dillon Born in the City of Dublin in Ireland and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (mark)
320. 8 August 1820. Richard Trundell Born in Witney, Oxon., where his parents were settled. About 10 years ago he was apprenticed by a public charity to Henry Tuffley of Cheltenham, plasterer, for 7 years. He continued in his service seven months, when his master left the town, (unfinished) 43 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 321. 10 August 1820. Ann Wilkes Bom in Maisemore. In March 1818 she was hired for a year to a Mr. Knight of Sloane Street in Chelsea, and continued in such service for more than the year, (mark)
322. 15 August 1820. Hester Smith Bom in St. Mary’s parish, Devizes, Wilts. About 3 years ago she was married to Joseph Smith in Charlton Kings, who was legally settled by apprenticeship to his father in the parish of Castle Morton, Worcs. She has had one child Elizabeth now aged about one year, and her husband has been dead about six months, (mark) 323- 17 August 1820. Thomas Jones Bom in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Middx., where his parents were legally settled, (signs)
324« 22 August 1820. Hannah Ballinger of Cheltenham, single woman. Bom in Farmington. (mark) 325- 29 August 1820. Mary Boswell, singlewoman Bom in Arlingham. Two years ago last Michaelmas was hired by Mr. Midwinter of Charlton Kings for a year, and at the end thereof was hired by him for another year at the wages of 6 guineas. She served a fortnight in Charlton Kings and then removed with the Midwinter family to Whalley Farm in Wittington [Whittington], where she served the remainder of the year. The following year she was hired by Mr. Greenwood of Charlton Kings but quitted his service about a fortnight ago. (mark) 326. 15 September 1820. Ann Wellington Born in Blakeney, where her parents were settled. About 3| years ago she was hired by Lady Vincent in Lydney for a year at 7 guineas. She continued there about a week and then came to Cheltenham with her for about one year and a half. She then left her sendee but was again hired by her Ladyship about 6 weeks aftenvards for a year, and continued about a year and a half and then quitted her service, (signs) 327. 16 September 1820. Joseph Fryer Bom in Bishampton, Worcs. About 7 years ago he was hired for a year by Mr. Stone of Holy Cross parish, Pershore. On the morrow after Old Michaelmas, 1818, he went to Bidford Mop and was there hired by Mr. Brown of ?Kinwarton, Wanvs., until the next Old Michaelmas. His sendee was to commence from 15 October, by agreement with his master, and he left on Old Michaelmas Day 1819. (signs) Note: ‘Hannah. Levi, infant’ 44 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 328. 26 September 1820. Elizabeth Hingley, wife of William Hingley. (See no. 329) About 8 years ago she was married in the parish of School Court, Yorks, to her present husband. She heard him say that he was apprenticed to a Mr. Sharpen, a carpenter, of Gt. Grimsby, Lincs., where they lived after their marriage about two years. They then went to London with a view to go to South America but were disappointed. Her husband then entered on board a man-of-war destined for Algiers and was absent for about 3 years, during which time this exami nant lived at Plymouth Dock. About five months since they came to live in Cheltenham, and on Tuesday last her husband left her with three children and has not since returned, (mark)
329- 3 October 1820. William Hindley (See no. 328) Born in Tupham, Lincs. When about 18 years old he bound himself apprentice to one Richard Sharpc(?n) of Gt. Grimsby, Lincs., in his trade as a carpenter, for four years. About two years after his master removed to the parish of St. Mary, Nottingham, and there died. He then went to work for himself in Nottingham until he had completed the job his master had set him upon. Until his marriage, about 7 years ago, he worked at different places but never obtained a settlement, (signs)
330. 3 October 1820. William Cambridge, labourer Bom in Ampney. In 1801 was hired by the late Robert Morris Esq. of Barnwood Court for a year as coachman, and the following year. He afterwards entered the Marines and continued therein for ten years (during which time he married) and was discharged in 1813. He has been in Cheltenham about four years, renting a house at 5/- a week, (mark)
331- 10 October 1820. Elizabeth Adams, of Wittington [Whitting ton], singlewoman Born in Faringdon, Berks. About 6 weeks after Christmas 1817 she was hired by William Gaskins of Bishop’s Cleeve, farmer, till the following Michaelmas, and again for a year at wages of 5 guineas, when he was residing in the hamlet of Southam and Brockhampton. She is now living in Wittington and is big with child, (mark)
332. 24 October 1820. Susan Powell Bom in Newent . . . (unfinished)
333- 28 October 1820. John Browne Born in Stonehouse, Devon, and has since been at sea. (mark) 45 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 334. (No date.) Mary Weller, late Mary Jordan (See also nos. 335-337) Bom at Abingdon, Berks., where her parents were settled. About 18 years ago she was married to John Weller, a labourer, at St. Mary’s church in the City of Oxford. One Nathaniel Lawrence her uncle was present, and she was married by banns by Mr. Lampiere, minister of the parish. Her first child was born about n months after at Abingdon and is now about 16 years old. Her second child William was bom on the mountains in South Wales and is ten. Her last child Mary was bom in the City of Gloucester and is now about seven, (mark) 335-335* (N°(No date).dateY William Weller* He was married about 14 years ago at Abingdon to Mary Jordan; her father, mother and sister were present . . . (unfinished and crossed out) 336. 31 October 1820. Edward (Weller deleted) Burrows Bom in Wittington [Whittington], and never was married (signs) Note: 'And this examinant further saith that the child he had by Mary Jordan christened William was bom at Blanowan, Mon., and the child Mary was bom in the City of Gloucester.’ 337. 31 October 1820. Mary Weller Bom in Abingdon, Berks., where her parents were settled, and has done no act since to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 338. 3 November 1820. John Bailey Bom at Newent. At Michaelmas about 5 years ago he was hired by Mr. Smith, attorney, of St. John’s parish in the City of Gloucester, for a year, and continued in his service two whole years, (signs) 339. 7 November 1820. Elizabeth Pool, widow Bom in Linton, Herefs. Six years ago next March she married Samuel Matthews, blacksmith, in the parish church of St. John, in the City of Gloucester. He died about a year and a quarter after their marriage. Within a twelve month she was married at Hempstead near Gloucester to Benjamin Hayling, by whom she had a child now living named Benjamin. Where her husband’s settlement is she cannot tell. Her second husband did not live quite a twelve month and died in Cheltenham. After nine months after his
* It looks as though Edward Burrows started by posing as 'William Weller’, Mary Weller’s husband, and then, as his story’ did not agree with hers, admitted his identity. Mary is then briefly re-examined (no. 337). 46 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 death she married William Pool of Cheltenham, whose settle ment was in Minsterworth. William Pool died about a month ago; during their coverture he never gained a settlement in any other parish. Since his death the parish officers of Minster worth have given her relief, (mark) 340. 7 November 1820. Ann Spilsbury Born at Haydon in Boddington. About six years ago was hired by Mr. Cook of Shurdington for a year, and continued in his service two years. About 3 years ago she was hired for a year at Gloucester Mop by Mr. Smith of Arlingham. (mark) 341. 11 November 1820. Joanna Turner Bom in the City of Glasgow in Scotland and married her husband there. Neither he nor her has gained a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 342. (blank) November 1820. Edward Williams He was (born) in the Island of Santa Cruiz [szc] in the West Indies, and has been in England about 7 years. He continued about 6 months in the service of Mr. Armstrong who brought him from the West Indies; he then went to Bath, was hired by Col. Wilkes for a year and lived with him 10 months. About 5 years ago he was hired by Mrs. Ormsby of Bath for a year and lived with her six months. About 2 years ago was hired by Mr. (PBreesnall) who then lived in Guildford St., London, for a year at wages of 20 guineas, and after six months there went with him to Stoke Newington, Middx., for 5 months and upwards, and afterwards went with him to Southampton (unfinished)
343- 21 November 1820. Rebecca Broomfield Born in the parish of ?Honser in the City of Hereford. On 29 Dec. 1818 she was married to Joseph Broomfield, who was born, as she has been informed, in the parish of Holy Cross, Pershore, where his parents were legally settled. Her said husband is now dead and she has one child by him, Joseph, of the age of one year, (signs) 344* 5 and 7 December 1820. Mary Penny, singlewoman Bom at Chatham, Kent, where her parents were settled. About five years ago she was hired by Mrs. Foote at the Fountain Inn, Chatham, for a year at about £5 a year, and lived with her three years and a day. About two years ago she was hired by Mrs. Higgs of Essex Place, Cheltenham for a year, subject to a month’s wages or month’s warning, at wages of £6. (mark) 47 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 345- 7 December 1820. Dennis Rourke Bom at Monerstown in Co. Wicklow, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (signs) 34^. 19 December 1820. Jane Wavell Bom in Cirencester and has lived in divers places but not for a whole year, (signs) 347- (No date.) Ann, wife of Stephen Butler About ten years ago she and her said husband went to reside in Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. upon an estate of his own. They continued in possession for about 3 years, when it was taken by the mortgage(e) and sold, and they quitted the parish, (mark) Note: ‘Ann 7 years, Susan 3 years' 348. 2 January 1821. William Davis Born at Little Dewchurch, Herefs. About 6 or 7 years ago rented a house of Mr. Parker in Sherborne Street by the year at the rent of 10 guineas, and lived there half a year, (signs) 349- (No date.) William Clarke Born in All Saints' parish, City of Oxford. About six years ago he bought a house in St. Peter's parish, Oxford for £360, lived there about 3 years and then sold it for £300. About two years ago he took a house in Gyde's Terrace of Mr. Gyde at the rent of 6s. a week and continued there above a twelve month. (mark) 35°- 16 January 1821. Ann Cratuck Born in Wycombe Trail, Somerset. About 20 years ago was married to her late husband Walter Cratuck in the church of St. James, City of Bath. Her husband was born at Tetbury, where his parents were settled. She has been frequently relieved by the parish officers of Tetbury. (mark) 351- 16 January 1821. Mary Rayer Bom in Standish, where her parents were settled. About ten years ago she was hired to Mr. Thomas Howell, black smith, of Stroud, for a year, and continued upwards of a year. She has since been relieved by the parish officers of Stroud, (mark) 352. 16 January 1821. Ann Harding of Cheltenham, singlewoman Bom at Upton Bishop, Herefs. After she left her parents she was hired by Thomas Hardwick of Ross, Herefs., for a year, which she served. She lived with a family in the Crescent in Cheltenham for 3 months; she was then hired by Mr. Herbert of Cheltenham for a year but continued six months only, (mark) 48 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 353- 16 January 1821. Henry Vincent of Cheltenham, labourer Born at ?Honeygate, Somerset. About 20 years ago was hired by a gentleman of the name of Spicer in the parish of Topsam in Devon, for a year, and continued in the same service for five years and upwards, (signs) 354- 25 January 1821. George Williams Bom at Salbridge, Co. Kildare, (signs) Note: *Elizlh wife, James infant child’. 355- 25 January 1821. John Willis Bom at Droitwich, Worcs. Between 40 and 50 years ago he was hired by Mr. Hayden of Upton-upon-Severn, Worcs., collarmaker, for a year. He continued above a year and then left. About 40 years ago he was married to his present wife Mary in the parish church of Cuddesdon, Oxford, (signs) 35^. 30 January 1821. Lydia Bayliss Bom in Hanbury, Herefs., where her parents were settled. About 7 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Ironside of Chelten ham for a year, and continued in her service near 4 years, (mark) 357- 1 February 1821. John Fitzgerald Born in Castle Connel, Co. Limerick, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England. Five years ago he was married to Lucy his present wife . . . (unfinished and crossed out) 358. 1 February 1821. Luke Henry Bom in Co. Cork, and has never done any act to gain a settle ment in England. About 26 years ago he was married to his present wife (Helen) in the City of Cork, (signs crossed out) 359- 6 February 1821. Hannah Adams Born in Sevenhampton. About 4 years ago she was hired by Mr. Cotterell of Cakebridge in Prestbury about six weeks after Michaelmas for a year, and lived there near two years, (mark) 36o. 20 February 1821. Ann Reeve, singlewoman Born at Greet in Winchcomb. At Gloucester first Mop in the year 1819 she was hired by Mr. Smith of Bam wood for a year at wages of £4:10:0. (mark) 361. 22 February 1821. Frances Marsh Bom in the City of Bath. About five years ago she was hired by Mrs. Stinchcomb of Nelson Street, St. James’s parish, Bristol for a year at £5, and continued in her service above four years, (mark) 49 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 362. 22 February 1821. James Hopkins Bom in Hucclecote. About 27 years ago he was hired by Mr. Richard Fowler of Gotherington for a year. He since hath been in the Army about 23 years, (mark) Note: ‘4 years married to Lucy’. 363. 26 February 1821. John Stewart Bom at Glasgow and has never done any act to gain a settle ment in England. About 3 years ago he was married to Jane his present wife, (signs) 364. 27 February 1821. Phoebe Wilkins Bom in Stow-on-the-Wold. In July 1819 she was hired by Mr. Denney of Cheltenham for a year at £4, and continued a month above the year, (signs) 365. 6 March 1821. Thomas Tyler Bom at Ripsford in Bewdley, Worcs. where his parents were settled. When about 14 years of age he was apprenticed by his father to Charles Peters of Kidderminster, Worcs., carpet manufacturer, for 7 years, and continued there about six years. He was in the Army about 7 years and was married on 29 Aug. 1819 to his present wife Esther, (mark) 366. 27 March 1821. Joseph Stafford Born in Elmore. In 1811 or 1812 he was hired by Mr. John Arkell of Boddington for a year at £12. (signs) 367. 17 April 1821. Sarah Evans Bom in Staunton . . . (unfinished) 368. 17 April 1821. John Smith Bom in Somerford Keynes, Wilts. About 40 years ago he lived . . . (unfinished) 369. 4 May 1821. John Roberts Bom in Bredon, Worcs. where his parents were settled. About 40 years ago he was apprenticed by Mr. Darke of Bredon to Mr. Silas Welles of Prestbury, miller and baker, for six years, and a premium given of 12 guineas; that he continued in his service near four years, when his master declined business and gave him his time. He slept in his master’s house the whole of the time he was with him. He has been ever since working as a journeyman miller and baker, except 3 years he was on board a man-of-war. (signs) 370. 12 May 1821. Elizabeth Taylor Bom in the township of Bishop’s Cleeve. On the 2nd day of February 1813 she was hired by Mr. Wm. White of Evington in Leigh until the next Michaelmas, and then for a year at £4. (signs) 50 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 371- 15 May 1821. James Webb Born in ‘the parish of Sheepleek, Glos.’ [?Shiplake, Oxon.]. About 7 years [ago] he was hired by Col. Leeman of Chelten ham as a coachman by the year at 14 guineas. He has been living with Mr. Heath of Gloucester as a weekly servant for nearly the last five years, (signs) 372. 29 May 1821. William Little Born in Leckhampton. About ten years ago he was hired by Mr. Hill of Brock worth at the last Mop holden at Gloucester till the next Michaelmas at wages of 14 guineas, and again for another year and a third. About 7 years ago he was married to his late wife, by whom he hath had three children: James aged 6, William about 5, and Esther i| years, (mark) 373- 29 May 1821. John Holland Born in Rendcomb. Upwards of 40 years ago he was hired by Mr. Hook of Badgeworth at Cirencester first Mop for a year at wages of £6 . . . (unfinished)
374- 29 May 1821. Mary Murphy, widow of Clement Murphy On 3 Jan. 1818 she was married by banns in St. Michael’s, City of Bath. She and her husband soon after came to reside in Cheltenham, where he entered the service of Lady ?Strang- land with whom he went to Bath and soon after died. She has often heard the said Clement Murphy declare that he lived in the service of Mr. George Ricketts of Twyford, Hants, for more than two years, and that that was his place of settlement, (mark) 375- 12 June 1821. William Strong Born in ‘the parish of Upton, near Bitton, Glos.’ About 20 years ago he was apprenticed to William Ship of Bitton for 7 years and continued in his service about 5 years, (mark) Note: ‘Mary his wife, Wm. 3 years, Robt. 17 mos.
376- 19 June 1821. Elizabeth Hall Born in Charlton Kings, where her parents were legally settled. About 3 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Cherrington of Leckhampton for a year at wages of 3 guineas, and con tinued under another yearly contract the following year. She has lived in two services since, both short of a year. She is a singlewoman and is now pregnant, (mark)
377- 21 June 1821. Elizabeth Birch Bom in Elkstone. About three weeks before Michaelmas 1819 she was hired by Mr. Burrows of Charlton Kings for a year, (mark) 5i CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 378. 23 June 1821. William Crump Born in Dumbleton. About 28 years ago he rented a farm in Winchcomb and Sudeley (but resided in Winchcomb) at £500 a year, and continued in occupation about 20 years, (signs) Note: ‘Elizabeth his wife, Charlotte 4 years, Thos. 1 year’
379. 26 June 1821. John Martin Born at Stow-on-the-Wold. About 7 or 8 years ago he and his son Thomas Martin were working together at the Plough Hotel as carpenters. His son having heard that a cottage and about 16 acres of land at Swindon belonging to Mr. Surman was to be let, asked this examinant to go with him to look at it. On doing so he remarked to Mr. Surman that part of the land was not very good and therefore he must not hurt his son in the rent. Mr. Surman answered he should be in Cheltenham and would let them know. On the Thursday Mr. Surman came to Cheltenham and said to his son: ‘Young man, I am come, what do you think about it?’ “My son answered: ‘What will the rent be?’ Mr. Surman then said: ‘What family have you got?’ I remarked: ‘None at all’. Mr. Surman then turned round and said: T shall look to you as haymaster’. My son and Mr. Surman then went into the Plough and I continued on with my work. They agreed as to the rent whilst I was absent, as my son told me, and that the rent was 60 guineas, to be paid quarterly and to commence at Michaelmas. My son went to Swindon and asked me to allow his mother to go there instead of a servant, which I consented to do. My son continued in the occupation of the farm for upwards of two years. After he went to Swindon I continued to rent a lodging in Cheltenham for about 3 weeks or a month, when I went to Stow and there worked from Christmas to Michaelmas for one Collins in building a bam. I then went to the Quart Pott where I worked a year and a half. While I was working at Longborough I was sent for to my son who was ill. I staid there about seven or eight days before he died and about three weeks afterwards in order to collect the money due to him. I used to go there occasionally on the Saturday night and return on the Monday but I had no interest whatever in the farm, tho’ I sometimes gave my son money. After my son’s death I paid the last quarter’s rent. He is positive he never slept in the parish of Swindon 40 days at any one time during the whole time his son occupied the estate there, (unfinished) 52 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 380. 26 June 1821. Mary Poole Born in Devizes, Wilts. About 8 or 9 years ago she was hired by Joseph Buckle of Hailing Wood in Cubberley [Coberley] for half a year. She was then hired to John Richardson of the same parish for a year at wages of 6 guineas, (mark)
381. (No date.) Edward Fudge Born at Burlingham, Worcs. Nearly 40 years ago he was hired by Evans of Claines, Worcs., for a year at £6, and the following year at Michaelmas (St. John’s first Mop) to Mr. Towers of (blank) for a year at £6. At St. John’s first Mop he was hired by Mr. Pack wood of ? Sal lop for a year at £6. The day before the year expired, in consequence of having broken a pair of traces at plough his master and he quarrelled and agreed to part, his master paying him the whole wages, (unfinished)
382. 28 June 1821. John Doughty Bom in Cubberley [Coberley]. About 32 years ago his father died and he was at that time in possession of a house there. He continued to live in the house until . . . (unfinished)
383- 30 June 1821. Joseph Lowe Bom in Badgeworth. About 10 or 12 years ago he was hired . . . (unfinished)
3®4- 3 July 1821. Elizabeth Craddock Born in Kidderminster, Worcs. . . . (unfinished)
385- 17 July 1821. Henry Arkell of Cheltenham, labourer Bom in Brimpsfield. About 8 years ago was hired by Mr. Thompson of Cricklade, Wilts, for a year, and the following year at the first Gloucester Mop by Mr. Frank is of Upton St. Leonards for a year. He then went to live with his father at Birdlip in Brimpsfield for about half a year, and continued to work with several persons till he came to reside in Chelten ham in April 1820. (mark) Note: ‘Hannah his wife, Ann 3 years, Jane 2 years, Wm. 4 months’
386. 17 July 1821. Charles Darke Born in Tredington. About 20 years ago he was hired by Mr. Thos. Shekell of Little Compton, Worcs. at Evesham first Mop for a year at wages of 9 guineas, (mark) Note: ‘Mary his wife, one child Allen 3 years’ 53 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 387- 4 August 1821. Edward Gerrard Bom at Thombury. When quite young he went with his father to Ross, where he was legally settled and from the officers of which parish he, the witness, has received relief, (mark) Note: ‘Martha, Edward nine, Mary Ann 6, Thos. 5, Eliza 3, Martha 5 months’ 388. 17 August 1821. Eliza Mac Clothin (unfinished) 389. 28 August 1821. Charles Smith Bom in Filkins, Oxon. About nine years ago he was hired by Mr. Tuckwell of Eastleach two days after Michaelmas for a year at £6 to serve at Stamford Farm in Southrop. (un finished) 39°- (No dale.) John Crump, now residing in Charlton Kings Bom at Gt. PHampton, Worcs. Hired a tenement in Chelten ham of William H(illeg.) from January 1816 at the yearly rent of £12, and continued in possession for two years, (signs) Note: ‘Sarah wife, Sarah 12 years, Isaac, Jacob 9 years’ 391- (No date.) Richard Taylor, now residing in Stoke Orchard Bom in Tredington. Was hired at Tewkesbury Old Michaelmas Statute Fair about 15 years ago by Mr. James Clements of Burlington, Worcs., farmer. About six years ago he hired a messuage, orchard and premises at Stoke Orchard from Ladyday, of Dennis Hawker, at the yearly rent of £12, and continued in possession until the following Michaelmas, when he quitted the orchard and afterwards rented the cottage at . . . (unfinished) 392. 9 October 1821. Richard Collins Bom in Elmstone Hardwicke. About 15 years ago he was hired by Mr. Greening of Upton St. Leonards, at the Gloucester first Mop, for a year at £8. (mark) 393. 11 October 1821. Ann Melville (but signs Melvin) Born in the hamlet of Wootton [Wotton]. About 26 years [ago] she was hired by Dr. Fuller for a year, resided with him about 6 months in Cheltenham, and then went with the family to Upper Brook St., Grosvenor Square, London and served the remainder of the year there. About 9 or 10 years ago she was hired by Col. Riddell at Enfield at the wages of £15 and is quite positive she lived with him the full year, (signs) 394. 13 October 1821. Thomas King Bom in Southam. About 8 years ago was hired by John Barnes of Corse Court in Tirley for a year at £8 and afterwards for another year, (mark) Note: ‘Sarah his wife, Eliza aged 18 months’ 54 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 395. 18 October 1821. Ann Jennings Bom in Shoreditch, Middx. In the year 1799 she was married at Shoreditch church to William Jennings, since dead, by whom she had three children born in wedlock, William, James and Charles. About 8 years ago her husband rented a house in St. Anne’s, Middx, for a year at 18 guineas. After having quitted the house she rented lodgings in the same parish until her husband died; she then occupied a lodging in the same parish at the weekly rent of 4 shillings, (signs) 396. 30 October 1821. Sarah Evans Born in Staunton,* where her parents were and are settled, (signs) Note: 'Orders made’ 397a. (No date). Samuel Clifford of Swindon, Glos, carpenter Boni in Swindon, and lived there with his parents until the age of 14 years. He was then apprenticed by (blank) Webb Esquire to John Finch of Cheltenham, carpenter, by indenture for seven years. He regularly served his master for the full term save and except about six weeks, (signs) 397b. (No date). John Finch of Cheltenham, carpenter, saith that Samuel Clifford was regularly apprenticed to him by (blank) Webb Esquire for the term of seven years by an indenture duly stamped, and that he received £30 as premium. The said indenture was deposited in the hands of the late Mr. Benjamin Wells of Cheltenham, upon whose death application was made to his sister, but the indenture could not be found. Samuel Clifford served his term, except about six weeks in consequence of some falling out between deponent and his said apprentice, when he discharged him. (signs) 398. 6 November 1821. Esther (signs Hester) Hams Bom in Castle Moreton, Worcs. About five years ago she was hired by Miss Lane, mercer, of Upton-upon-Sevem, Worcs. for 3 months and then for a year at wages of £4. (signs)
399- 6 November 1821. Richard Turner Born in Suffolk near Newmarket. About 20 years ago he took the Stonehouse in Cheltenham at £16 a year, lived there two years and paid his rent and taxes, (mark) 4oo. 13 November 1821. Mary Jones, wife of Thomas Jones now residing in 358 Aldersgate Street . . . (unfinished)
* Staunton near Coleford, Forest of Dean; not Staunton near Ledbury, which was not then in Gloucestershire. 55 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 4oi. 29 November 1821. John Lane, aged 23 Bom in the parish of Holy Trinity, Gloucester. His father rented a tenement in St. John’s parish in the said city. About the age of 13 years he left his father and has never done any act in his own right to gain a settlement. About four years ago he was married to his present wife Susan, by whom he has had two children, James, 3 years and Charles, 1 year. He recollects his father being ill and receiving relief from the overseers of St. John’s aforesaid, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made’
402. 29 November 1821. Daniel Field Born in the parish of (blank) in the County of (blank). Near 20 years ago he was hired to Job Stock of Didcote Pasture in Beckford, by the year, and received his wages near £10 a year, (mark) Note: 'Sarah his wife’ 4°3- 4 December 1821. William Holland Born at Foxcote in Withington. Four years ago at Cheltenham first Mop he was hired by Mr. Hewitt of Prestbury for a year. At the Christmas after the year he went to live with Mr. Lovesy of Wittington [Whittington] by the week to look after his horses, and at the Michaelmas following was hired by Mr. Lovesy for a year at 8 shillings per week for the first half year and nine shillings for the second. About Ladyday afterwards they parted with mutual consent, (mark) Note: ‘Elizth his wife’ 404. 4 December 1821. Elizabeth Hawkes Her daughter Mary Hawkes was born in Wittington [[Whitting ton]. About 28 years ago she hired her daughter to Farmer Timbrell of Charlton Kings for a year at wages of 50 shillings, and at the end of the year for another year. About two years ago her daughter was deprived of her reason, (mark) 405. 18 December 1821. Eliza Stephens Bom in Kempley, Herefs. [rede Glos.]. About four years ago she was hired by Mrs. Hartland of Bouson [doubtless Boulsdon] in Newent for a year at £4. (mark) 406. 18 December 1821. Hannah Colley, widow Seven years ago she was married to John Colley, who died about a week ago. The week after she married they went to live in a cottage at Sandford belonging to Mr. Stephens, the rent of which was 20 guineas a year. They occupied it four years and she paid the rent by half-yearly payments, (mark) 56 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 407. i January 1822. William Sterry Born in Longney. At Gloucester first Mop about 11 years ago he was hired by Mr. Butt of Norton for a year at 5 guineas and also served the following year with the same master. About 5 years ago he was married to Hannah his present wife in Hempsted, and has now living two children, Mary and Eliza, (signs) 408. 3 January 1822. John Bartlett Born in St. Paul’s parish in Bristol and lived with his father till he was about 11 years of age. About 2 or 3 years before he left, they lived at the Baptist Mills near Bristol, where his father rented a house at £14 a year. He left his father there and went to five with his brother at Chepstow, where he continued about 6 or 7 years. About 7 years ago he came to Cheltenham where his father then resided; his father taught him the trade of a shoemaker and boarded and lodged him, but no agreement was made between them. He lived with his father until about a year and a half ago and was then married, (signs) 409. 8 January 1822. Thomas Nookes, labourer Born in Badgeworth . . . (unfinished) 410. 22 January 1822. Charles Holland, now residing in Chelten ham, labourer Bom in Cowley. About four years ago he was hired by the Rev. Mr. Salter of PUffton, Berks., to serve him as gardener and footman for a year at yearly wages of £20. He also continued 4 months longer. After several short services, about 21 years ago, the porter of the Plough Hotel told him that he might come into the yard as his assistant, and agreed to give him 12 shillings per week for the summer months. At the expiration of the summer, soon after Michaelmas, the porter told him that he would only give him six shillings per week for the winter months, and this was agreed to. The wages were regularly paid him for 14 months, and he was lodged and boarded at the Plough Hotel, (signs) 411. 24 January 1822. Edmund Murrell Born at Fiddington [in Ashchurch]. Has rented a tenement of Mr. Sheldon for about 15 years, and for it paid £10 a year besides taxes . . . (unfinished) Note: ‘Eliz01 his wife’ 412. 6 February 1822. John Greening Bom in Boddington. About 17 years ago he was hired by Henry Buckle of Haydon Farm in Boddington for a year at wages of £10; he also served the next year, (mark) Note: ‘Elizth his wife, John 8 years, Charles 5 years, Ann 3 years. Orders made’ 57 6 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 413. 19 February 1822. Henry Berwick Bom in Dumbleton. About 26 years ago was hired by Mr. Davison of Fiddington Farm in Ashchurch for a year at wages of 8 guineas. The following year he was hired on Michael mas Day to Fanner Nind of Elmstone Hardwicke for a year at 7 guineas. On the Wednesday before the next Michaelmas he went to Tewkesbury Mop and stopt there till the Thursday evening and returned to his master’s house, where he remained until Michaelmas Day, on which day he went to Tewkesbury Fair and returned home at night. The following morning his master paid him his wages, deducting 3/6, as he believes, for the days he had been absent during the year. About 24 years ago he was hired by Mr. John Witts of Southam until the next Michaelmas at 8 guineas, (unfinished) 414. 19 February 1822. Thomas Parsloe Bom in Daglingworth. His parents lived there and received relief from the parish officers. He has also heard his mother say she had received relief from Milton in the parish of Shipton [under Wychwood]. About 13 years ago he married Maria his present wife by whom he has six children: Mary aged 12 years, William 10, Alexander 8, Esther 6, Ann 4, and Elizabeth 2. Previously to his being married he was never hired as a yearly or any other servant, but earned his liveli hood as a daily or weekly labourer. About 4 years ago he applied to the parish officers of Milton, where he understood his parents were settled, for relief, and about a month after wards he had one pound and has since had 4/6 weekly allowed him occasionally* and about Michaelmas last he had £1, all from the officers of Milton. (mark) 415. 26 February 1822. Mary James Bom in the town of Monmouth. About two years ago she was hired by Mr. Charles Crisp to serve him 3 months in Gloucester. They came to Cheltenham, where Mr. Crisp hired her for a year at wages of 8 guineas, (mark) 416. 28 February 1822. Thomas Fowler Bom in Cheltenham. When about 17 years of age was appren ticed to William Gainer of Uckington, carpenter, for 7 years, and lived with his master the whole time, (mark) 417. 12 March 1822. Ann Ireland Born in Wittington [Whittington]. About 4 years ago at Cheltenham first Mop she was hired by Mr. Holder of Brock- hampton in Southam for a year at 4 guineas. At Cheltenham Mop the day after Michaelmas 1820 she was hired by Mr. Shipway of Dixon [Dixton in Aiderton] until the next Michael mas for 5 guineas, (mark) 58 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 4*8. 3 April 1822. Mary Eyland, singlewoman Born at Ockerton [doubtless Alkington] in Berkeley, where her parents are legally settled, (mark) 4*9- 23 April 1822. Mary Hobbs Bom in Bishop’s Cleeve. About five years ago she was hired by Mr. Edwards of Cheltenham for a year at wages of 7 guineas, and also the two subsequent years. She has been in France for one year and a half since, (mark) 420. 2 May 1822. Thomas Day Bom in Little Hinton, Wilts. About ten years ago was hired by Mr. Thomas Packman of Lamboum, Berks, for a year at 4/6 per week and 50/- at Michaelmas, (mark) Note: ‘Esther his wife’ 421a. 7 May 1822. Mary Hopkins of Cheltenham, singlewoman On 22 February 1819 she was delivered in Cheltenham of a female bastard child, now living. The child was baptised in Cheltenham parish church about a week or fortnight after its birth by the name of Mary Ann Stewart, (mark) 421b. Elizabeth Page of Cheltenham saith that on 22 February 1819 she delivered Mary Hopkins of a female bastard child, (mark) 422. 16 May 1822. Ann Wilkins, singlewoman Bom in Stoke Orchard. About 15 years ago she was hired by Mr. Bowyer of Leckhampton for a year at wages of £2/15/0. (mark) 423- 10 June 1822. Fanny Preece Bom in Lugwardine, Herefs., where her parents are legally settled, (mark) 424. 11 June 1822. Hannah Coomb Born in Sevenham pt on. About 3| years ago she was hired by Mr. Cook of Shurdington for a year at £4, and has since been relieved by the parish officers there, (mark) 425- 23 July 1822. John Morris, now residing in Cheltenham, labourer Bom in Twyning. At Tewkesbury Mop about 17 years ago he was hired by his mother to Mr. John Merryman for a year, but left his master’s service about a month before his year expired. He was hired the following year to Mr. Roberts of Westbury . (probably Westbury-upon-Sevem) for a year but left his service after three quarters of a year. The next year he was hired by Mr. Nicholls of Powick (Worcs.) for a year, but in consequence of a disagreement with his master 59 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 they parted a week before the year expired. On io March in the following year he was hired by Mr. John Clark of Twyning until the following Michaelmas, and then for a year at 8 guineas. He served under that contract until the month before the following Michaelmas, when his master paid him £7 odd for wages and he agreed to serve him thenceforward at 2/6 a week, (mark) Note: 'Sarah, Win. of the age of 6 years, Edward 15 weeks’ 426. 23 July 1822. Jane Underwood, now residing at Cheltenham, singlewoman Born in Rotherhithe, Middx. At Michaelmas 1818 she was hired by Mr. George Cook of St. John’s parish in the City of Gloucester for a year at £3, and continued three months afterwards. She then came home to her father for about 12 months, but was not hired to him. (signs) 427. 24 July 1822. Thomas Wonnington Bom in Hallow, Worcs. About 17 or 18 years ago was hired by Mr. Woodyate of Colestone in Upton Snodbury, Worcs., for a year at 11 guineas. He was hired at Pershore Mop, and received his year’s wages deducting for a day that he was away in the middle of his service, (mark) Note: ‘Sarah his wife. Win. Thos. of the age of ?4 years’ 428. 22 August 1822. Mary Shot ton, singlewoman Bom in Winchcomb. Four years last Michaelmas she was hired by Miss Lee of Cheltenham for a year at £4 wages, month’s warning or month's wages. She served the year and the following one. (signs) 429. 27 August 1822. Sarah Pimble, singlewoman Born at Highnam. About 5 years ago she was hired by Mr. Hulls of Corse for a year at wages of £5, and for another year, (mark) 430. 24 September 1822. James Whiting Bom at Shilton, Berks., and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) Note: ‘Edith his wife’ 431. (24 September 1822). Eliza Randell Bom at Cirencester. At Cirencester Mop on Old Michaelmas Day, 1819, she was hired by John Smith of Cheltenham for a year, (unfinished) 432. 8 October 1822. Thomas Burby Bom at Tallaght in Co. Dublin, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (signs) 60 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 433- 15 (October 1822). Jane Hamms (20 years old) Born in Leckhampton, where her parents were settled as she has been informed. She has lived with Mr. Kearsey at Leckhampton for a year, and also with Mr. Edwards, and received clothes and money in payment for wages, (mark) Note: ‘Sworn before us this 28 November 1822. Orders made.’
434- 22 (October 1822). Richard Bartlett Born in Minchinhampton . . . (unfinished)
435- 22 (October 1822). Joseph Matthews Bom in Down Hamney [Down Ampney]. About seven years ago he was hired by James Ash win of Bourton-on-the-Water for a year at the wages of £20. At Stow first Mop he was hired by Thomas Hancks of Cold Aston for a year and served until within about 10 days of the Old Michaelmas following, but being about to be married he asked his master to spare him, who consented so to do and he left his service and his master deducted twelve shillings, part of his wages, (signs) Note: ‘Elizlh, Ann 5 years, Mary 4, Emma 3, John 1’ 43^. 29 October 1822. James Turner Born in Dowdeswell. About 13 years ago at Cheltenham first Mop he was hired by Mr. Langbridge of the George Inn, Cheltenham, for a year as a carter’s boy at the wages of 3 guineas, and at the end thereof was hired again for another year, (signs)
437- 31 October 1822. John Eyles Born in Brimpsfield, where his parents were settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere. About 3 years ago he was married to Hannah his present wife, by whom he has two children, William aged two years and 6 months and John aged nine months. He is now become chargeable to the parish of Elkstone, in which he resides, (mark)
438. 7 November 1822. Priscilla Mulcock* late of Cheltenham, single worn an Born in Eastleach, and has resided with her parents there and in the parish of Kelmscott, Oxon., to which place her parents with herself and the rest of the family were removed about six years ago by two magistrates. She has resided with her parents since birth till within about 12 weeks of the present time, (signs)
* This follows an unfinished entry in almost identical wording for ‘Priscilla Turner’. 61 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 439. 7 November 1822. Joseph Hale Bom in Staunton. About 30 years ago was hired by Mr. John Whitmore of Swindon for a year at yearly wages of £8 and served another year afterwards. He was then hired by Mr. Edward Harvey of Winchcomb with whom he lived ten years at weekly wages, paid monthly, fortnightly or weekly. He could have left at the end of any week. He was some time since examined as to his parish by Mr. Talbot and Mr. Wynniatt, who deemed it to be at Winchcomb, and the parish officers of that place relieved him. (mark) Note: 'Elizth 25’ 440. 18 November 1822. David Hine Bom in Wotton-under-Edge, where his parents were settled, (signs) 441. 24 December 1822. Richard Colley Bom in Badgeworth. Three years ago last Michaelmas he was hired by Mr. Greenwood of Charlton Kings for a year at wages of 7 guineas. In the Spring he was taken ill and went home for about a fortnight; he returned to his master’s service and continued until Michaelmas, when he received his wages deducting 2/6 for the time he was absent. The following year he was hired at Gloucester first Mop to Mr. Hill of Wotton for a year. A few days before New Michaelmas, his master having been dissatisfied with him, discharged him, deducting three shillings for the term he had to serve . . . (unfinished) 442. 21 January 1823. Joseph Halloway Bom at Cirencester. About seven years ago was hired by Mr. George Prior of Tewkesbury for a year at 8 guineas as a footman and gardener, and then for another year, but left at the end of 8 months, (signs ‘Jousph Alloway’) 443- 25 January 1823. William Allen Bom in Prestbury, where his parents were settled. At Gloucester first Mop about 11 years ago he was hired by Mr. Taylor of Lassington for a year at wages of 8 guineas. He served from the Michaelmas in one year until the day before Michaelmas in the next year when his master gave him leave to go away and paid him his year’s wages except 1/6, which he stopt for the deponent’s staying away one night in the middle of his service, (mark) Note: 'Sarah his wife. Catherine, child, 1 year* 444. 28 January 1823. Thomas Cooper Bom in Cheltenham. About six or seven years ago he bought of Mr. William Moore a freehold cottage and garden at Swindon for £231, and continued to reside therein until Midsummer 1821, when he sold it and quitted the parish. 62 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 At Michaelmas 1821 he took three acres and near a half of land of Mr. Neale at Staverton at the rate of £2 an acre for 12 years; an agreement in writing was prepared. He has erected a small cottage upon part of the land, has paid one guinea towards the rent and done some work amounting to about £1 for Mr. Neale, but in consequence of his poverty he has been unable to pay more, (unfinished) 445- 4 February 1823. Joseph Cox Bom in Corse, where his parents were settled, (mark) Note: ‘Mary his wife, Chas., 11 weeks’ 446. (4) February 1823. Samuel Farley Bom at Gotherington in Bishop’s Cleeve, where his parents were settled. About six or seven years ago he was hired by Mr. Walter Buckle of Uckington for a year at 12 guineas, then by Mr. John Buckle of Boddington for a year at nine guineas, and for another year at the same wages. About 9 or 10 days before he left Mr. Buckle and before Old Michaelmas Day he was hired by Mr. Thomas Newman of Swindon for a year and served the whole year before he was married, (mark) 447- 20 February 1823. Tabitha Moss late of Cheltenham, single woman Bom in ?Alvend, Oxon., where she lived with her parents till she was between 15 and 16 years of age. She was then hired by a Mrs. Hope of Fullbrook near Burford, Oxon., for a year and remained in such service two years. She afterwards hired herself to Mr. Kilmister of Swinbrook, Oxon. for a year, where she remained only about three-quarters of a year. She hired herself in service of the Earl of Abingdon at Witham, Oxon., for a year and remained in such service for three years. She afterwards was hired by a Mr. Worton [PWooton] of Kingham, Oxon. for a year at wages of 10 guineas, (mark) 448. 20 February 1823. William Wade, late of Charlton Kings, labourer Bom in Brentford, Middx. In 1800, 1801 and 1802 he was hired by a gentleman of the name of Guise in the parish of Enmore in Somerset to serve him in the capacity of footboy or in any other work. In the last year, 1802, he was hired at the yearly wages of 4 guineas with a suit of livery. He staid near 3 years. After he quitted this service he remained as a labourer in the country for near a year, when he enlisted into His Majesty’s Marine Service, where he remained for ten years. He enlisted in the Royal Waggon Train, where he served near 4 years and was then discharged, and soon afterwards intermarried with his present wife, Eleanor, by whom he has two children, viz. Margaret aged 7 years and Sarah aged two years, (signs) 63 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 449. 27 February 1823. Elizabeth Bevan of Cheltenham, single woman Born at Winslow near Bromyard, Herefs. She lived with her parents ten years, when she went into the service of Mr. Skilsbury of Hardwicke House in the same parish and lived with him 7 years, (unfinished) 450. 5 March 1823. William Trinder Bom in Sevenhampton, where his parents were settled. About 16 or 17 years ago he was hired at Evesham Mop by William Elsmore of Sheriffs Lench in Church Lench, Worcs., for a year at £8 as a carter. He was then hired by John Stokes of the same place as a fanning servant to attend the cattle for a year at wages of £10. About 14 years ago he came to Chelten ham and married his present wife Maria who he believes has four children. About 11 years ago he rented of John Champion at ?Maidenhouse, Cheltenham for a year at £10 and lived there near three-quarters of a year and paid the first quarter's rent, (mark) 45i« 25 March 1823. Maria Hayward Bom in Blakeney . . . (unfinished) 452. 25 March 1823. George Jackson of Cheltenham William Jackson his son, now of the age of 25 years and in a very declining state of health, was born in Woolvercot, Oxon. When of the age of 17 years he left his said father who was then resident in Oxford. He George Jackson was born in Stoke, Warws. When about 16 years of age he was apprenticed by his father to John Hassall of St. Michael's, Coventry, for 7 years. He served his master about two years, when they agreed to cancel the in dentures. He afterwards went to reside in the City of Oxford in houses the rent of which did not amount to £10 per year. He quitted Oxford and went to reside in Woolvercot, Oxon. (but never gained any settlement there) where he intermarried with Elizabeth Shayler. During his residence in this parish his son William was born, who lived and worked as a shoemaker with his father till he was about 16 or 17 years, when he left this examinant and went to several places to work, but to this examinant's knowledge never gained a settlement in any place. His said son came to Cheltenham about 3 years ago to work at his trade and took lodgings in the town. Since he has been in a declining state he has lived with his father and worked with him as a journeyman shoe maker when he was capable of so doing. He has gained no settlement in any place since his service at Coventry, (signs) 64 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 453- 25 March 1823. William Jackson, son of the above-named George Jackson From his own knowledge he was quite ignorant where he was bom or in what parish he is settled, (signs) 454- 1 March 1823. Thomas Nash, labourer Bom in Leckhampton. Is of the age of 17 years. About four years ago was hired by Messrs. Long & Lambert of Cheltenham, grocers, for a year, and again for a year but did not serve the year out. (signs) 455* 1 March 1823. John Nash, labourer, aged 14 years and upwards Born in Leckhampton. He was hired at Cheltenham first Mop in 1821 by John Jeffs of Up Hathcrley for a year. About February or March 1822 he was taken ill and was absent from his master’s service about a fortnight. His brother Thomas served in his stead for about a week. When he recovered he continued for the remainder of the year, when he received his wages, his master deducting one shilling, (mark) 45^. 14 March 1823. Richard Nash Born in Barton, Oxon. Above 30 years ago he was hired by Mr. Matthews of PDunstice, Oxon., for a year at wages of 3 guineas. He then went to work at different places but all short of a year until he married Mary Blackford. After his marriage he was hired for a year by Mr. Ballinger of Cubberley [Coberley]. (mark) 457- (No date.) Mary Jones, singlewoman Born at ?Dawson, Herefs. About 8 years ago she was hired by Mr. Thomas Maddox of Bedwardine, Herefs. for a year at wages of 30/-. At the end of the year she was hired for another, but staid only three weeks. She is now pregnant, (mark) 458. 27 March 1823. Susan Stroud of Charlton Kings, single woman Born in Prestbury. At Michaelmas 1821 she was hired by Mr. Barton of Charlton Kings for a year at ten guineas, and at the end thereof was hired by him for another year and continued in the same service until a week before Christmas* (signs) 459- 7 April 1823. John Pearce of Cheltenham Born in the Isle of Wight, is about 35 years of age, was married about ten years back, and in 1820 took a house at Leamington Priors, Warws., by the year. He continued there for one year and upwards, and paid his year’s rent amounting to £12. (signs) 65 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 460. 10 April 1823. William Mills now residing in Prestbury Bom in Salperton. He was hired about io years ago by Mr. Handy of Lower Hampen in Shipton Oliffe for a year, and continued in his service for two years after as a hired servant. Soon after he left Mr. Handy he intermarried with his present wife. About four years ago he rented a house in Cheltenham of John Dodd at the yearly rent of 12 guineas. He continued in possession of the said house for a second year and paid both years’ rent, (mark) 461. 14 April 1823. Maria Hayward Bom in Blakeney. About 8 years ago was married to John Hayward of Tewkesbury who lived five years previous to her marriage as ostler at the Cross Keys in Tewkesbury. Her husband has now left her and she believes he is now in New York in America, (mark) 462. 21 April 1823. Richard Cooper Bom in the town of Northampton. When about 16 he was apprenticed by a charity at Camden [probably Chipping Campden] to Mr. Joseph Hine of Moreton-in-Marsh, slatner and plasterer, for 7 years. He served 4I years, when his master enlisted for a soldier and witness went away and worked as a journeyman at Shipston-on-Stour. He was married about 8 years ago to Martha his present wife, by whom he has 3 children, William, George, and Ann. (mark) 463. 21 April 1823. Richard Purser Bom in Redmarley. About 25 years ago was hired by Mr. Jonathan Smith of Westbury for a year at the Gloucester Mop, and received 8 guineas his full wages. Two years ago last Lady Day he agreed to rent a house in Cheltenham of Mr. Hayward at the yearly rent of 14 guineas but continued in possession thereof only seven months, during which time he also rented land in Redmarley at the yearly rent of £4. He paid the rent for the house during the time he occupied it. After he had quitted it he agreed to rent another house in Cheltenham of Mr. Whatley at the yearly rent of ten guineas; he continued in possession only five months and then agreed to rent another house of Mr. Rawlings, who rented it of Miss Thornton at £13, but he only remained in possession a quarter of a year, (mark) 464. 3 May 1823. Philadelphia Lapper Bom in Pershore Bradnell, Oxon. Seven years ago last Michaelmas she was married to William Lapper, who is now dead. Her said husband lived two years in the service of Mr. Ansell of Filkins previously to her marriage, and she 66 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 married him from such service. After her marriage they lived in Filkins two years and during that time her husband fre quently applied for labour, which the officers of that parish found him. When her husband was in Mr. Ansell's service he lived and slept in his house and was employed as carter. She has 3 children by her said husband, John of the age of 7 years, James 3 and Ann 15 months. Her husband died in January 1822. (mark) 465- 22 May 1823. Mary Smith, singlewoman Born in Wotton Vill. In October 1820 was hired by Mr. John Dowling of the King’s Head Inn in St. Nicholas parish. City of Gloucester, for a year at wages of £11. (mark) Note: ‘Order granted’ 466. 23 May 1823. Jane Dawkins, singlewoman Bom at Llanstephan, Co. Carmarthen. She was hired as a servant by Mr. Howell of Llanarthney for a year at 6 guineas, and lived with him a year and a half, (signs) 467- 2 June 1823. Charles Bolinbroke Born in the City of Dublin and has never done any act to gain a settlement in England, (unfinished) 468. (No dale.) Phoebe Taylor Bom in Eastington* near Cirencester. About 4 years ago she was married to Jonathan Taylor who is now transported for the period of seven years. She has heard that her husband was born in the parish of Leigh, was apprenticed to Mr. Anderson of Tewkesbury for 7 years and served the whole time. They have been sent there by order of removal and relieved by the parish officer there, (unfinished) 469. 3 June 1823. Hannah Bird Bom in Bourton-on-the-Water, but her parents were settled at Birdlip. About 5 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Hogg of Painswick to go a month upon trial at wages of one shilling per week. She remained 13 months, during which time she slept in her mistress’s house and received her wages when she wanted it. The agreement to part was a month’s wages or a month’s warning. She has never since been in any service above two months, (signs) 470. 7 June 1823. Charlotte Higgs Born in Northleach, and went out to service at Oxford with a Mr. Heath when she was about 14, lived with him a year, and received £3 for her wages. She has since lived with Lord Sherborne for 3 years and received wages of 8 guineas per year. She is now of the age of 26 years, (signs) ♦ There arc two other parishes named Eastington in Gloucestershire, but this is probably Ampney St. Peter, also known as Eastington. 67 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 471- 12 June 1823. Jane Greenhill Born in Dumbleton. About 3 years ago was hired by George Maclagan Esq. of Cheltenham for a year at 7 guineas and continued for a year and nine months after the first year, (signs) 472. 24 June 1823. Sarah Hawkes of Cheltenham, singlewoman Born in Quedgcley. About 5 or 6 years ago she was hired at Michaelmas for a year by Mr. Milley, Stroud. She has lived in several places since but all short of a year, (signs)
473- 27 June 1823. John Robinson Born in Upton St. Leonards. When about 16 years old he was apprenticed to John Fisher of Prestbury, cordwainer, for 7 years. He lived with his master there for 6 years and then left him. (signs: ‘John Robison’)
474- 5 July 1823. Matilda Underhill, singlewoman Bom at Chatham in Kent. About 5 years ago she was hired by Dr. Day of Maidstone for a year, month’s wages or month’s warning, and continued in his service 2| years. About a week after she quitted it she went to London and was hired by Mrs. Heath of St. Mary le Bone for a year at 9 guineas. She staid with her in London about a fortnight and came with her to Cheltenham, then to Southampton, and stop'd a month, then to Cheltenham and remained there until within about two months of the year, when they agreed to separate. She was hired on the 2 July 1823 by Mrs. (illeg.) for a year at wages of 12 guineas. She is now in her service and believes she is pregnant, (signs) 475* T9 Juty 1823. Sarah Baylis Born in Barnard, Warws. About 8 years ago she was hired by Mr. Malcomb of Todenham for a year at 8 guineas, and continued in the same service for 4 years, (signs) 476. 22 July 1823. Thomas Scudder Bom in Twyning, where his parents were settled. The only service he ever lived in was Mr. Shipway’s of Dixon;* he was hired to him at the Tewkesbury last Mop in 1821 after Michael mas until the following Michaelmas, when he quitted his service, (signs) 477. 22 July 1823. Betty Hemming (See also no. 478) Bom in Gotherington, and has never done any act to gain a settlement, (mark)
Probably Dixton, a hamlet in Aiderton, Glos. 68 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 478. 22 July 1823. Mary Hemming Her daughter Betty was born in wedlock. Her husband, who is dead, received relief from the parish of Woolstone and she now resided in a house belonging to the officers of that parish, (mark) 479- 24 July 1823. Esther Richardson Born in Ashleworth. About 8 years ago she was hired by Mrs. Bickham of the Plough for a year, and served three years afterwards. Between 3 and 4 years ago, she then being in the workhouse, Mrs. Cartwright who then resided in Chelten ham sent there for a servant, and the Governor sent this examinant. She accordingly went, but nothing was said as to time or wages, but this examinant continued in her service nearly 12 months and then accompanied her to Leamington where she continued in her service about four months. Mrs. Cartwright found her board and lodging and frequently gave her clothes, (mark) 480. 7 August 1823. James Davis Bom in Trowbridge, Wilts., where his parents were legally settled, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 481. 9 August 1823. Margaret Hewer Bom in Oddington. In the Spring of 1819 she was hired by Mr. Prescot of Sarsden, Oxon., until the following Michael mas at wages of 5 guineas, and again for a year at 6 guineas. Three or four days after Michaelmas Day she was hired by Mrs. Brooke of Kingham until the Michaelmas following and left on that day. (mark) 482. 16 August 1823. William Calcott Bom in Curbedge, Oxon., where his parents were settled and from which parish he has received relief, (mark) Note: ‘Children, Jane 9, Anne 8, Richard 6 years’ 483. 18 August 1823. Sarah Slater Bom in Cheltenham, where her parents were settled. About 3 years ago was hired by Mrs. Williams of Momington Place, St. Pancras, Middlesex, for a year at £12; she continued in such service near two years and then left it. (mark) 484. 19 August 1823. Elizabeth Cooke, widow of Cornelius Cooke . . . (unfinished) 485. 23 September 1823. Sarah Tarling Born in Bishop’s Cleeve . . . (unfinished) 486a. 23 September 1823. Susannah Mail Born in Beckford, Glos, (mark) 69 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 486b. 23 September 1823. Sarah Mail saith that her daughter Susannah Mail was born in Beckford and that she, the deponent, was then a single woman, (signs) 487. 25 September 1823. Elisha Braggins Bom in Wappenham, Northants. His father resides there but his settlement is at Middleton China, Northants, and he is now receiving relief from the parish officers there . . . (un finished) 488. 27 September 1823. Elizabeth Heritage Bom in Slapton, Northants. About 13 years ago she was married at PDankberry to Richard Heritage. About 9 years ago her husband took a house at Wappenham, Northants., at £15 by the year, and they lived there seven years. Her husband died a few days ago. (unfinished) 489. 15 November 1823. James Hawkes Bom in Quedgeley. He rented a house in St. Michael’s parish Oxford, of Mr. Saunders at the yearly rent of £14 and lived in it one year and 3 months (in the years 1820 and 1821), and paid such rent. About five years ago he was married to Maria his present wife and has by her two children, Charles, two years, and William, four months, (signs) 490a. 16 December 1823. William Clevely Born in Charlton Kings, and has done no act since his appren ticeship to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 490b. William Bliss saith that about 46 years ago the pauper William Clevely was apprenticed to him for 7 years by the parish officers of Charlton Kings, and served him two years when they parted with consent, (signs) 490c. John Burrows, overseer of Charlton Kings, saith that the parish book he now produces was delivered to him by Mr. Lovesy, the churchwarden, wherein an entry appears 8 April 1778: Paid Wm. Bliss cons[ideratio]n money with his apprentice Cleevely £8 for Ind(entu)res £1:1:0, for inrolling 4s. 491. 23 December 1823. Samuel Harris Bom in Bamwood, where his parents were settled. About 30 years ago he was hired by Mr. Jackson of the hamlet of Wootton for a year but at what wages he does not recollect. He continued in such service the whole year and two or three years afterwards. At Gloucester 2nd Mop about 26 years ago he was hired by W. Lawrence of Barton St. Michael [Gloucester] for a year, but was discharged without his consent within about 6 days of the end of the year, but received his whole 70 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 year’s wages. He then went into the army and returned about 9 years ago; then went to live at the Fleece in Chelten ham as a weekly servant. About 8 years ago he rented a room in Sherborne House, Cheltenham at 4s. per week and continued there upwards of a year, (signs) Note: ‘Ann his wife, 4 children: Harriet 8 years, Wm. 6, Ann 2, Samuel five weeks’ 492. 23 December 1823. Ann Spragg Her daughter Mary Spragg was bom in Stoke Orchard. At Gloucester first Mop in 1821 she hired her daughter to Mr. White of Leigh for a year at wages of one guinea, and she served her year and the following year. The said Mary Spragg is now pregnant, (mark) 493- 3 January 1824. Charles Dodwell Born in Cheltenham. About 3 weeks after Michaelmas four or five years ago he was hired by Mr. Newman of Swindon for a year at 7s. a week. He is quite positive he served up wards of a year and slept the whole time at Mr. Newman’s house, (unfinished) 494- 5 January 1824. Robert Lawrence Born at Roel. About 14 or 15 years ago was hired by Mr. John ? Harrison of Prestbury at Winchcomb First Mop for a year, (mark) 495- 5 January 1824. Elizabeth Woodward, aged 27 Born in Wotton-under-Edge. About two years ago she was hired by Mrs. Cooper of Cheltenham for a year at wages of 11 guineas, (signs: ‘Elizabeth’) 496. 16 January 1824. Mary Williams Bom at Wet worn [PWetwang] in Yorkshire. She went to live with Mr. Strickland when she was 12 years old, and lived with him about 5 years, during which time she received her clothes and board and received a guinea from her mistress when she left. She has since lived with Col. Fitzgerald 3 years and 4 months and left on the 4 October last. She was to receive 8 guineas per year as wages. Col. Fitzgerald lived at ?Baldshire Hall in Yorkshire, where she remained with him about 15 months ‘when we removed to London for one month and from there to Hampstead in Middlesex where we lived about 4 or 5 months; from there to Tunbridge Wells where we remained about 3 months and then to London for one week. We then went to Brighton, where we lived about 8 or 9 months, and then to Bishop’s Stoke, Hampshire, where we lived about one month, when we went to Gumsey where we lived about 4 months, and I then left Col. Fitzgerald’s service’, (signs) 7i CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 497. 20 January 1824. Elizabeth Wood Boni in Withington. The settlement of her husband Thomas Wood was at Stroud, where he lived for several years . . . (unfinished) 498. 24 January 1824. Joseph Willis Bom in Badgeworth. About 5 or 6 years ago he rented a house in Newnham of Mr. John Morse for a year at £14; he lived there upwards of two years and paid more than a year’s rent. About the year 1809 he was married to his present wife Elizabeth at Charlton Kings, by whom he has five children: William of the age of 14, John 11, Mary Ann 8, Elizabeth 6, Caroline 2 years, (signs) 499- 5 February 1824. Margaret Sadler Born in Uckington, where her parents were settled, and believes that they have been relieved by the parish officers of Uckington. (mark) 500. 5 February 1824. James Hughes Born in Clanfield, Oxon. About 10 years ago he rented a house and garden in Prestbury for a year at the rent of £80, and lived there near 5 years . . . (unfinished) 501. 17 February 1824. Hannah Wolvin Born at Winchcomb. At Cheltenham first Mop about 8 years ago she was hired by Miss Ann Long of Arie for a year at the wage of £5 (she believes) . . . (unfinished) 502. 24 February 1824. Sarah Minchin Spencer Born at Staunton, Worcs. About 4 years ago was hired by Mr. John Hampton of Abergavenny, grocer, for a year at £5, and lived with him that year and the two following, (signs full names) Note: ‘Orders made’ 503. 21 February 1824. Hester Phelps Bom in Gotherington, where her parents are settled. Two years ago last Michaelmas she was hired by Mr. Southouse of Prestbury for a year at £9; she was hired for another year at £10, left sometime in July last, but received her whole year’s wages, (mark) 504. 26 February 1824. Thomas King Born at Frome, Somerset. About thirty years ago when he was ?I4 years of age he was apprenticed to George Parrott of Frome, carpenter, for 7 years and served the whole term. About 15 years ago he rented two rooms, part of a dwelling house in the parish of St. James, Bath, of Mr. Newport, builder, for a year at £y, he lived there upwards of a year. 72 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 At the same time he also rented a shop in the same parish of a blacksmith by the year at the rent of £5, and continued in possession upwards of a year, (mark) 505. 9 March 1824. Mary Reddick Bom at Dundock [Dundalk] in Co. Lowth, and has done no act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 506. 15 March 1824. William Ward. Born in Little Washbourne, Worcs. At Tewkesbury first Mop seven years ago he was hired by Mr. Richard Hill of Tredington for a year at £4 or thereabouts. He lived there from Michaelmas to Ladyday, when he went with his master who removed to Leigh, and there lived until Michaelmas. Three years ago last January he was married to his present wife Nancy, by whom he has two children, Richard Reeves, now of the age of two years, and Elizabeth aged three quarters of a year, (mark) 507. 16 March 1824. John Dunn Bom at Tolymore in King’s County, Ireland, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (mark) 508. 30 March 1824. Agnes Brampton Born at Shepton Mallett, Somerset. Several years ago she came with her parents to reside in Bath, and about 4 years ago her father rented a house in the parish of St. Peter and Paul, Bath, of a Mr. Mitchell, at £25 yearly as she believes. He lived in the house a whole year and paid the rent. She lived with her father the whole of the time; she then left her father, (mark) 509. 3° March 1824. John Powell of Sellack, Herefs. He is now in possession of a house which was devised to him by his father in the parish of Sellack. His daughter-in-law Elizabeth Mutlow was born in Sellack and has never resided out of the parish until within the last fortnight, (signs) 510. (No date.) Thomas Tooth Born at Sutton Coldfield, Warws. When he was 14 years of age he was apprenticed by his parents to Thomas Coates of St. Martin's parish, Birmingham, steel toy maker; he served about 3 years, when the indenture was cancelled. He was then articled to Mr. Taylor, glasscutter and jeweller in the same parish, for 4 years. He then went to London and rented a house in St. Luke’s, Middlesex, at £32 per annum, occupied it 2| years and paid the rent and taxes. In 1815 or 1816 he returned to Birmingham and rented a house for 18 months at the weekly rent of 4/6 unfurnished, (signs) 73 7 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 511- 13 April 1824. Benjamin Ballinger (cf. no. 549) Bom at Cheltenham. Has frequently heard his father say he was settled in Stensham by hiring and service, (mark)
512. 17 April 1824. Margaret Mitton Bom at Tewkesbury, where her parents were settled. About 28 years ago she was married at Tewkesbury to her late husband William Mitton, by whom she had eleven children, two of whom, William aged 11 years and Ann 8, are now living with her. Her husband about 8 years ago rented a house in Tewkesbury of Mr. Hingsbury at the yearly rent of £10; they continued in such house 3 years and paid the rent. Her husband was relieved by the parish officers of Tewkesbury, (mark)
5I3* 20 April 1824. Mary Goatman Bom in Ashelworth. About years ago was hired by Mr. Piff of Leckhampton for a year at 4 guineas, (mark) 5*4- 4 May 1824. Thomas Nelmes Bom in Abinghall. Last Michaelmas twelvemonth he was hired by Thomas Nelmes of Aston Ingham, Herefs., for a year at wages of £4. (mark) Note: ‘Wife Sarah’ 5!5- 6 May 1824. John Daunder Bom in Leckhampton. About 20 years ago was hired by Mr. William Harmer of Gotherington for a year at nine guineas, (mark) 516. 8 May 1824. Mary Wharton, late Evans, of Cheltenham, wife of George Wharton She has been married about 15 years. About a year before she was married she was delivered of a female bastard child in 25 Plow Court, Fetter Lane, Holborn, London. The child was christened Miram [s?c] and has been living with her ever since and has never been out to service, (signs) 5i7- 11 May 1824. Joseph Pearce Born in Cirencester. When about 16 years old was apprenticed by a charity to Robert Price of Northleach, blacksmith, for seven years, served until he became of age, and then left his master. About 12 or 13 years ago he went to live with Thomas Wheeler, a blacksmith, in Cheltenham, by the week at 8/- per week and his board and lodging, and continued for 3 or 4 months. At the following Michaelmas he was hired by Henry Wheeler, who was then living with Thomas Wheeler, for a year at £20, but left long before the end of the year and did not receive his year’s wages. They parted by mutual 74 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 consent and he enlisted into the army. About five years ago he was married to his present wife Elizabeth, by whom he has had two children, Joseph, 2| years, and Ann, six months, (mark) 518. 15 June 1824. Ann Ward Bom in Painswick, as she believes, and has never done any act to gain a settlement in her own right, (mark) 519. 25 June 1824. Elizabeth Moss Born in Bishop’s Cleeve. Four years ago last Michaelmas she was hired by Mr. John ?Snelus of Cheltenham for a year at about £5. Previously she had lived in his service from March, (mark) 520. 27 July 1824. William Parker Bom in Winchcomb, where he lived until about 7 or 8 years ago, and gained his settlement there by renting land for several years of the yearly rent of £20 and upwards. His son Isaac, now aged about 30, left him before he left Winch comb. (mark) 521. 27 July 1824. Isaac Parker (See nos. 520 and 528) Born in Winchcomb, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (unfinished) Note: ‘Ann his wife, Mary aged 3 years, Samuel 4 months’ 522. 27 July 1824. Ann Wall Born in Painswick, as she believes, and has frequently heard her father say that he was settled in Dowdeswell. (mark) 523. 9 August 1824. Mary Smith Bom at Woodmancote . . . (unfinished) 524. 21 August 1824. Ann Boswell Born in Arlingham, where her parents were settled. About 5 years ago was hired by Mr. ?Hains of Charlton Kings for a year at the wages of £3, and served two years afterwards. About three days before Cheltenham first Mop in 1822 she was hired by Mr. Grundy of Cheltenham for a year at £5. Last Michaelmas she was hired again for a year but left her service last Thursday week, (mark) 525. 7 September 1824. Edward Faulkner Bom in ?Cumbrook, Warws. About 23 years ago he was hired at Campden Mop (held on the Wednesday before Old Michael mas) by Mr. Joseph Price of Cow Honey bourne for a year at 6| guineas, (mark) 75 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 526. 21 September 1824. Watkin Staight, aged 30 years Bom in St. Nicholas’s parish, Gloucester. About 14 years ago he went to live with his uncle Thomas Roberts in Southam, not being hired. His uncle found him board and lodging and wearing apparel, but never paid him any wages. He lived with him for 3 or 4 years. On 25 March 1819 he rented a tenement and garden in Southam of Samuel Cherington for a year at £15, and resided in it between 7 and 8 weeks, when finding that it did not suit him he quitted it without paying any rent. After he left he went into lodgings in Chelten ham (and paid 4/- per week) where he continued three weeks or a month and then went to London, (signs) Note: ‘Orders made’ 527- 5 October 1824. John Hall Born in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcs., where his parents were settled, (signs) 528. 8 October 1824. Jonathan Elliott Is the owner of a dwelling house in the parish of Moccas, Herefs., with gardens and two orchards adjoining. A short time before Candlemas Day, 1817, Isaac Parker (see no. 521) took the said house etc. at the yearly rent of £14:10:0. One half acre of the land is in the adjoining parish of Blakemore. Isaac Parker resided in the house upwards of three months, he believes four or five. Part of the rent was paid by Parker and the other part by his father-in-law, Mr. Wall. The year before the premises were let at £18 a year. The pauper Parker underlet part at £4 a year, and the half acre in Blakemore was worth about 15/- a year. The undertenant paid £3, part of his rent, to this deponent, (signs) 529. 9 October 1824. Farrell Keegan Bom at Enniskilling in Co. Fermanagh, and has gained no settlement in England, (signs) Note: ‘Dominic Mullany born in Ireland’ 530. 9 October 1824. Elizabeth Perrott Born in Miserden. About 30 years ago she married Richard Perrott of Painswick, who she understood was bom there, and who during their coverture rented a house, garden, and stable of the yearly value of £12. Edwin Perrott now residing in Cheltenham is her son and gained a settlement by living with Mr. Herbert Smith of Painswick for a year, (signs) 531. 9 November 1824. Charles Newton Bom in Wraxhall, Somerset, where his parents were legally settled. His father lived in his own property, which was life hold. [The deponent] was married to his present wife Ann in Cheltenham and has 3 children; Sarah 11 years, Jane 2 years, and Charles 1 year, (mark) 76 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 532. 23 November 1823. William Sims of Shipton-under-Wych- wood, Oxon. He is brother to Henry Sims who is now confined in the workhouse at Cheltenham. Seventeen years ago he was present when his brother was hired to Mr. Ward of Weston Hill in the parish of Fulbrook as under-carter for a year at £4. Witness lived at the same time with Mr. Ward. His brother continued the whole year and witness was present when he received his year’s wages, (signs)
533- 4 January 1825. Sarah Gardner, widow, late Sarah Woodford, spinster About 12 years ago she was delivered of a female bastard child now named Eliza in the parish of St. Philip’s, Birmingham; and about 8 years ago of another female bastard child now named Catherine in the parish of St. John’s, Worcester, (mark)
534- 6 January 1825. Susannah Coley Born in Cirencester, (signs: Cowley)
535- 1 February 1825. Sarah Arnold Bom in Longney. At Gloucester second Mop about 3 or 4 years ago she was hired by Mr. Moss of Awre for a year at 5 or 6 guineas, (mark)
536- 8 February 1825. Robert Callard Bom in Pitminster, Somerset, and was apprenticed by the parish to Colonel Vibort of Pitminster, with whom he lived 11 years, (mark)
537- 17 February 1825. Charlotte Peart Born in Winchcomb, where her parents were settled. About 5 or 6 years ago she was hired by Mr. Poyner of Winchcomb for a year at the wages of 4 or 5 guineas, and again for another year, (mark) Note: ‘Order of remand made. Pregnant/
538. 17 February 1825. John Field, now residing in Charlton Kings, labourer Bom in Brailes, Warws. About 24 years ago was hired by a Mr. ?Pertile of Stratford-on-Avon about a week previous to Old Michaelmas Day for one year at wages of 5 guineas. He has been employed in divers services for short periods and has never gained a settlement in any other place, (mark) Note: 'Sarah' 77 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 539. 24 February 1825. Thomas Ingram Bom in Cheltenham. His parents were settled in Boddington and his father frequently received relief and he has himself received it from the parish officers there. About 8 years ago he was married to his present wife Elizabeth who has three children: William, 7 years, Thomas, 3 years, and Ann, 3 months, (mark) 540. 26 February 1825. James Collett Bom in Manton, Wilts. About 17 years ago he was hired by Mr. Jenner of Cricklade, Wilts, for a year at 8 guineas. About 4 years ago he was removed from the parish of Rod bum China, Wilts., to Cricklade, and the parish officers of Cricklade relieved him. (mark) Notes: ‘Wife Ann, children Harriet 6 years old, Joseph 18 months* ‘Orders made the 15 of March 1825 to the parish of St. Sampson in the town of Cricklade’ 541* 1 March 1825. William Davison Born in Bishop’s Cleeve. (mark) Note: ‘Maria his wife, Frederick aged 2 years’ 542. 3 March 1825. Samuel Davison Born at Deerhurst Walton. About 40 years ago he was hired by his brother Richard of Fiddington for a year. Upwards of 20 years ago he rented the White Lion public house in Winchcomb at upwards of £20 a year, and lived there three or four years, (mark) 543. 8 March 1825. Thomas Duckham Craze Bom in Lockspear, Devon, where his parents were settled. He was never apprenticed nor hired for a year before he was married. About 12 years ago he rented a house of Mr. Salter in the parish of St. George-in-the-East, Middx., at £18 a year, lived there about 4 years and believes he paid the whole of the rent, (unfinished) 544. 15 March 1825. Thomas Large, now residing in Prestbury Bom in ‘Wittington’ [Whittington], where his parents were settled, (mark) Note: ‘Ann his wife’ 545. 22 March 1825. Elizabeth Hobbs Bom at Fiddington in Ashchurch. About 6 years ago was hired by Mr. Butler of Worthall in Cheltenham for a year at 12 guineas wages (month’s wages or month’s warning). She lived with him two years. About four years ago she was hired by Mrs. Ware of Clifton, Glos, for 6 months after the rate of 12 guineas a year. She continued in service 12 months, 78 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 when her mistress agreed to raise her wages one guinea a year. She then continued in her service about three-quarters of a year, (mark) 546. 24 March 1825. Maria Baker, now residing at Cheltenham Bom in Newland, where her parents were settled. On 25 June 1824 she was married in Hempsted to Richard Baker, by whom she has had one child Richard of the age of 6 months. Her husband died on 20 January last in Cheltenham. She has frequently heard him say that he was settled in the parish of Almesbury.* (mark) 547- 26 March 1825. Esther Roberts [No entry but note: 'Josiah Roberts’) 548. 28 April 1825. Thos. Carpenter Bom in Newent. Rented a house in Barton-St. Mary, Glou cester, of Mr. Moses ? Baring at the yearly rent of £13: 8: o for four years last past and regularly paid his rent, (signs) 549- 29 April 1825. Benjamin Ballinger of Cheltenham, labourer Born in Cheltenham, where his parents resided. His father during his lifetime frequently told him that he had gained a settlement by hiring and service in the parish of Strensham, Worcs. The examinant further saith that he has been several times hired by different masters for a year but never served a full year, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made and signed’ 55°- 30 April 1825. John Saunderson Born in Chepstow, Mon. About 15 years ago he rented some land of John Emlen in Frome, Somerset, at the yearly rent of £30, and continued in occupation three years and upwards. He paid the whole of the rent. Two years ago last Lady day he rented some land of Mr. Sarjeant in Cheltenham at £40 yearly, and continued in occupation i| years but paid no rent. Mr Sarjeant caused a distress to be levied upon the crop of the said land, and it was sold, but the amount he does not know, (signs) 551. 17 May 1825. David Pennington About four years ago he left Cheltenham, went to reside in London, and took lodgings at 9 shillings a week for about five months, then at Barbican for 8 months. He went to lodge at Kennington, and continued there five months. Has not lived in any parish for a twelvemonth since he left Cheltenham, (unfinished)
* Doubtless Almondsbury, Glos., formerly pronounced Amesbury. 79 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 552. 19 May 1825. Mary Lush, widow of William Lush Bom in Eldersfield, Worcs. About 8 or 9 years ago was hired by Mr. Hall (?Hale) of Newent for a year. She has since received relief from the parish officers of Newent. (mark)
553- 6 June 1825. Richard Walker Born in Burleigh, Herefs., where his parents lived. His father owned property there to near 100 acres of land, which the examinant’s elder brother now occupies, (signs)
554- 6 June 1825. Mary Walker late Ireland. (See also no. 579) About two years ago she was delivered of a male bastard child named David Ireland in the parish of Cranham. (mark)
555- 8 June 1825. Mary Sayer Bom in Pembridge, Herefs. On 14 Feb. 1824 she was hired by Mrs. Mortimer of Cheltenham at yearly wages of ten guineas, and lived with her the whole year and two months, (un finished)
556. 16 June 1825. Henry Partridge Bom in Cheltenham. About 3I years ago he was apprenticed to William PScrivener of Cheltenham, baker for five years. He continued in his master’s service upwards of six months; his master then left the town and the contract was dissolved by mutual consent, (signs) Note: ‘Jemima his wife, Edwin, Henry his infant child 3 months and upwards’ 557. 16 June 1825. Herod Starr Bom in Enfield, Middx., where he was apprenticed seven years and afterwards rented tenements to the value of £50 by the year, (signs) 558. 5 July 1825. Elizabeth Clark, widow Bom at Tetbury, where her parents were settled. She never lived in any place of service for 12 months. Her maiden name was Thornhill. About 7 years ago she married, at Tetbury, Jonathan Watson Clark, who died last Whitsuntide. Her husband never gained any settlement during their marriage, nor does she know where he was settled previous thereto, (mark)
559- 9 July i825- Francis Rolles Bom in the workhouse at Witney, Glos, [recte Oxon], as he has been informed. He recollects that about four years ago his mother died in the said workhouse, (mark) 80 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 560. 14 July 1825. Catharine Boucher Bom in Newland. Her husband John Boucher, who was settled in Cheltenham, died about three years ago. Two years ago last April she was hired by Sir Edmund Hartopp of Clifton for a year as housemaid at wages of 14 guineas, and served him there for eight months. From thence they went to Bath and resided in the Upper Crescent for six weeks, when the contract was put an end to. (unfinished)
561. 14 July 1825. John Roberts Bom at Westbury, Wilts., where his parents were settled, (signs)
562. 2 August 1825. Elizabeth Long of Cheltenham Bom in Tam worth, Warws. About 3 years ago she was hired by Mr. Rowlaston of Upton-upon-Sevem, Warws. for a year and lived with him upwards of two years, (mark)
5^3- 6 August 1825. Ann Edwards Bom in Llanfarrin [?Llanfarnam], Mon., where her parents were settled. About 2| years ago she was hired by William Morgan of the same parish for a year at £3. (mark)
5^4- 6 August 1825. William Brewer Born in Swindon, Wilts. About 20 years ago was apprenticed by a charity there called Broad town to Neville Summers of Cricklade, cordwainer, for 7 years. He served four years and slept in his master’s house. About 10 years ago he was married to his present wife Ann, who has had three children, Mary Ann aged 9, Dennis ?Hale aged 7 and John aged 11 months. On Monday last the overseer of Cricklade, Mr. Buckland, gave him 7/6 to bring his family to Cheltenham, (signs)
565- 8 August 1825. Thomas Niblett Born in Avening, where his parents were settled. About seven years ago he was married to his present wife Elizabeth in Cheltenham. They have two children, Sarah of the age of seven and Job of the age of three years, (mark) Note: 'Re-sworn this nth February 1826’
566. 10 August 1825. Benjamin Simmons Born in Stoke Orchard, where his parents were settled. About 14 or 15 years ago he was hired by Charles Yeend the younger of Elmstone Hardwicke for a year at wages of 13 guineas, (mark) Note: ‘Jane his wife, married in Cheltenham’ 81 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 5^7- 17 August 1825. Thomas Hughes Bom in St. Mary’s parish, Liverpool, where his parents were settled. Apprenticed to William Roberts of the same parish, carpenter, for seven years and served the whole of his time. About 12 years ago he was married to his wife Margaret at Carmarthen, (mark)
568. 18 August 1825. Esther White, widow Bom in Winchcomb, where her parents were settled, and has never done any act to gain a settlement elsewhere, (un finished)
5^9- 30 August 1825. Richard Williams Bom in Whitbume, Herefs., as he has been informed. About 21 years ago was hired by Mr. Mitton of Whitbume for a year at wages of 55/-. (mark) Note: ‘Orders made’
57°- 5 September 1825. Samuel Llewellyn Bom in Bridstow, Herefs. He was apprenticed at Ross for 5 years to Daniel ? Morris, a wheelwright and carpenter, and served about 4 years. His daughter Lucretia was bom in lawful wedlock and has gained no settlement in her own right, (mark)
57* • 17 September 1825. Lucretia Llewellyn Bom in Ross, Herefs., where her parents were settled, (signs)
572. 24 September 1825. John Rioaridian [szc] Bom in ?Glennew, Co. Limerick, in Ireland, and has done no act to gain any settlement in England, (mark) Note: 'Ann his wife’
573. 24 September 1825. Sarah Jones Bom in the parish [szc] of Lockington. About 30 years ago she remembers that her father and mother and the whole family were removed by the parish officers of Lockington to Painswick, where the parish officers relieved the family, and her parents were never removed from thence, (mark)
574. 24 September 1825. Maria Close Born at Epney in Saul. About five years ago was hired by Mr. Fryer of Eastington for a year, at the wages of ten guineas. She continued in his service 4 years, (mark) 82 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 575- 24 September. 1825. William Freeman Born in Twyning. About 30 years ago he was hired by Widow Knee of Forthampton for a year at £5. He was possessed of a house in Forthampton of the value £100, which belonged to him for ten years. His son Adam, now aged 22, was born in Forthampton. When about ten years old he was hired by Mr. Crump of Deerhurst in the deponent’s presence for a year at wages of £3, and was afterwards hired by Mr. Whitham of the same parish for a year at £5. His son has never gained a settlement elsewhere, (mark) 576. I October 1825. Adam Freeman Born in Forthampton. (Served as stated in no. 575.) About four years ago he was married to his present wife Jane in Ridford (? Rud ford), by whom he has one child Ann of the age of 3 years, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made’ 577- 8 October 1825. John Ayland Born in the tithing of Alkington in Berkeley, where his parents were settled. Married at Berkeley to Priscilla, by whom he has had nine children, four of whom are living with him; Joseph, about 16, Robert, about 13, John about 7, and Caroline, 5 years, (signs) 578. II October 1825. Robert Ragg Born in Stow-on-the-Wold, where his parents were settled, (mark) 579- 11 October 1825. Mary Walker (See also no. 554) About 2 years and 5 months ago she was delivered of a male bastard child in the parish of Cranham, christened by the name of David Ireland, (mark) 58o. 15 October 1825. Mary Clifford. (See also no. 586) Bom in Upton St. Leonards. About 29 years ago she was married to William Clifford at Swindon; he is now dead, (unfinished)
58i. 25 October 1825. Mary Beard Bom in Minchinhampton, where her parents were settled, (unfinished) 582. 25 October 1825. Thomas Tilton Bom in Little Somerford, Wilts., where his parents were settled. About 8 years ago bought some freehold land in the same parish for £35, erected a house thereon, and lived in it two years, (signs) Note: ‘Sarah his wife, George 7 years, Ann 5, Lucy 4, Elizabeth 2, Jane (?James) 3 months' 83 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 583- 28 October 1825. Elizabeth Clarke (See also no. 558) Bom in Tetbury. About 7 years ago she was married to Jonathan Watson Clarke in Tetbury. About 6 years ago she was removed with her husband to the parish of St. Peter & St. Paul, Bath, where she remained about two months, (mark) 584. 1 November 1825. Samuel Cherington Bom in Dowdeswell. His parents were settled in Woodman- cote. He was hired for a year about five years ago by Mr. Lawrence Rogers of Dowdeswell, with whom he lived two years. He soon afterwards intermarried with his present wife, (signs) Note: ‘Orders made' 585- 8 November 1825. James Smith Born in Bradford, Wilts., where his parents were settled. Has never been hired for a year, but has rented a tenement at the yearly rent of £14 in Walcot, Somerset, lived in it four or five years and paid the rent. About the year 1802 he married one Ann by whom he had two children living, William aged 14 and James 6 years, (mark) 586. 8 November 1825. Mary Clifford Bom in Upton St. Leonards, where her parents were settled, (signs) Note: ‘John 12 years, Henry 10, James 7* 587. 17 November 1825. Elizabeth Brice Born in Abberley, Worcs. About 15 years ago she was married to John Price [sic] at the Abbey church in Bath. She and her husband resided in a house belonging to her husband, No. 9 Westgate Buildings, Bath, during the whole time she was married and for a twelvemonth afterwards. She has heard that her husband gave about £600 for the said house. She believes it was worth £600. (mark) 588. 1 December 1825. William Lyne Bom in Evenlode, Oxon. About 40 years ago he rented a farm in Cowley at the yearly rent of £200, and continued there 21 years. About 40 years ago he was married to his present wife Susannah in Badgeworth parish church, (signs) 589. 6 December 1825. William Smith Bom in Malmesbury, Wilts., where his parents were settled, (mark) 590. 6 December 1825. Ann Watts Bom in Burford, Oxon. At Michaelmas twelvemonth she was hired by Mr. Welchman of Evesham, Oxon., for a year at wages of £5. (signs) 84 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 591. 8 December 1825. Emma Wilkes Who saith that she saw a child with Caroline Welch within a few hours after its birth and that the child now called Mary Ann Welch, now about six years old, is the same that she so saw. She has constantly been in the habit of seeing the said child and has no doubt but it [is] hers, (signs) 592. 17 December 1825. Jacob Constable Bom in Kempsford, Worcs., where his parents were settled. Last Whit Monday he was married in the parish church of Charlton Kings to Elizabeth Ruck, who is now dead, (signs) 593. 22 December 1825. Sarah Burford Born in Sevenhampton. About two and twenty years ago she was married to Thomas Burford, who rented a mill and house in Winchcomb at about £70 a year for several years, and lived in it till within a short time of his death, which happened about 8 years ago. (signs) 594. 24 December 1825. Catharine Hawker Born in Shipton-upon-Stour. About four or five and thirty years ago was married to John Lancaster at Chipping Norton, by whom she had a child named John, bom at Stratford- upon-Avon, Warws. about 33 years ago. Her said husband rented 2 or 3 small farms in Stratford for several years at the rent of about £200 a year. He died at Stratford in possession of the farms. Her son always lived at home and has never to her knowledge done any act to gain a settlement in his own right, (mark) 595- 7 January 1826. Joseph Harris Bom in Pantegue, Monmouthshire, where his parents are settled, (signs) 596. 7 January 1826. Mary Keasey Bom in the Kingdom of Ireland, (unfinished) 597. 19 January 1826. Benjamin Lane, now residing in Cheltenham Born in Ledbury, Herefs., the settlement of his father. When a boy he attended the bricklayers as a labourer in Ledbury. When about 19 years of age he left Ledbury and went to work at Gloucester with his brother-in-law who was a bricklayer, with whom he continued for about a year. He then went to different places, employed as a bricklayer at weekly wages and sometimes at piece-work. After he attained his age of 21 years, he returned to Ledbury where he married his present wife, (signs) Note: 'Sarah his wife’ 85 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 598. 18 February 1826. James Clark Bom in the parish of St. Peter’s in the City of Hereford. Apprenticed by his parents to Zachariah Wilcox of that parish, cordwainer, for 7 years, and served the whole term there. He was married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, about 21 years ago to Mary Ann his present wife by whom he has 7 children now living; four of them now form part of his family, to wit Thomas aged 12 years, Richard 10, John 7, and Henry 4 months, (signs) 599- 18 February 1826. Catherine Cadogan Bom in Frampton-upon-Severn. About 4 years ago was hired by Mr. Jones of Awre for a year and continued in his service the 3 years following, (signs) 6oo. (No date.) Mary Smith Bom in Bishop’s Cleeve. Between 40 and 50 years ago she was hired by Mr. Townshend of Cheltenham, butcher, for a year, and continued in his service 3 years afterwards. She also served the two following years with Mr. Carter and Mr. Averis under separate hirings for a year, (unfinished) 601. 19 January 1826. Charles Rutter Bom in Devizes, Wilts., where his parents were settled, (mark) Note: ’Charlotte his wife, Charles 16, Louisa 8, Charlotte 5, and Sarah 2 years’ 602. 24 January 1826. Martha Gay of Cheltenham, spinster Bom in Stapleton, and has lived in many places for periods short of a year. About Nov. 1824 she was hired for a year by James Egar of Cheltenham, coachman, at yearly wages of 5 guineas. She stayed in his service two months longer than a year in consequence of the illness of her mistress . . . (un finished) 603. 26 January 1826. William Sarjeant Bom in Winterbourne, where his parents were settled. About 3| years ago Mr. Croose of Cheltenham took a house for him in Cheltenham at £12 a year which he lived in for 3 years and paid his rent by wages to Mr. Croose. 604. 26 January 1826. Simon Paget Born in Brimpsfield. About 20 years ago last Michaelmas he was hired by Mr. Thomas Pearce of Butlers Court in Bodding- ton for a year at wages of £10. (mark) 605. 31 January 1826. Thomas Owens Born in Kington, Herefs. He was apprenticed there to Mr. Scandrett, a glover, for six years, and served his full time, (signs) 86 I
CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 606. 7 February 1826. William Lane Born in Ledbury, Herefs., where his parents were legally settled, (mark) Note: ‘Martha his wife, Elizth. ?4 years, Wm. 3 years’ 607. 9 February 1826. Robert Neale Bom in the parish of St. George, Manchester, where his parents were settled. He was bred to the sea from his infancy I and has never done any act to gain a settlement in his own I right, (mark) 608. 9 February 1826. Ann McDonnough. Bom in Nonney [Nunney], Somerset, where her parents were settled. . . (unfinished) 609. 11 February 1826. Robert Jefferies Born in Westcott. About 40 years ago he was hired at Burford first Mop by ------Day at Broadmore Farm in Sherborne for a year, (mark) 610. 14 February 1826. Michael Jordan Born in Hannington Wick Chapel Wilts., where his parents were legally settled, (mark) 611. 21 February 1826. John Dyer of Cheltenham, sawyer Bom in Didbrook, where his father was settled. About ten years ago he was hired at Winchcomb second Mop on Old Michaelmas Day to Richard Fisher of Prestbury for a year. About 3 years ago he intermarried with his present wife, by whom he has one child living named Caroline, aged 16 months, (signs) 612. 18 February 1826. Thomas Edwards, aged 26 years and upwards, (unfinished) 613. 23 February 1826. Mary Freeman Bom in Avron, Warws. . . . (unfinished) 614. 28 February 1826. Jane Sharp Bom in Belfast, Ireland, and married 8 years ago to John Sharp who was a Scotchman. Has never done any act to gain a settlement in England to her knowledge, (mark) 615. 3 March 1826. Thomas Stone Born at Hucclecote in Churchdown. About 6 years ago he was hired by George Yeates of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, for a year at £6, and again for another year at 8 guineas, (mark) Note: ‘Jane his wife, George 2 years, Emily 7 weeks* 87 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 6i6. 7 March 1826. William Rodway Bom in Dymock. His parents were settled in Hardwicke as he believes and [?he] has received relief from the parish officers there. About 15 months ago he was married to his present wife Ann in Cheltenham, who has one child by him, now an infant, (mark) 617. 11 March 1826. Elizabeth Jeynes About ten years ago she was married to her late husband William in St. Mary’s church, Gloucester, by whom she has had 3 children, Henry 4 years, Harriet 2 years, and Elizabeth 2 months old. She has heard her husband say he was settled in Gt. Malvern, and the parish officers there relieved him last, (signs) 618. 14 March 1826. Elizabeth Westall Bom in Bromsgrove, Worcs., where her parents were settled. A little more than four years ago she was hired by Mr. Topham of Bromsgrove for a year at 16 guineas, and continued in the same service altogether 3| years, (mark) 619. 16 March 1826. Michael Brady Bom in Swinesford, Co. Mayo, Ireland, and has done no act to gain a settlement in England, (mark) 620. 21 March 1826. Samuel Tanner Bom in Cirencester. In 1811 he was apprenticed to Thomas Artus of Kennington in Lambeth, Surrey, until he was 21 years of age. He served 5 years and slept in his master’s house in Lambeth the last 4| years. About ten years ago he was married in Cheltenham parish church to Maria his present wife, and has two children, Levi of the age of 5 years and David 3 years, (signs) 621. 21 March 1826. Thomas Cook Bom in Kinver, Worcs. About 11 or 12 years ago was hired by Mr. John Cook of Salperton for a year at 10 guineas, and was hired again and served part of that year. About two years afterwards he was married to his present wife Ann. He then came to reside in Cheltenham and jointly took a house with Simon Hathaway in Cheltenham at £16 yearly. They paid the rent jointly to Mr. John Morris and continued in that house about 3 years. About 5 years ago he agreed to purchase a piece of land in Cheltenham in Stanhope St., belonging to Mr. White, for £36. He paid a guinea in part and £2: 14 : o for interest, and afterwards paid £27:10:0 for the land to the assignees of Thomas Hayward, who agreed to take that sum. He erected a house upon the land and lived in it about four years, and then sold it for about £57. (mark) 88 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 622. 25 March 1826. Edward Matthews Born in Cricklade, Wilts. About n years ago was hired at Cirencester Mop by Mr. Hopgood of Cemey Wick in' S.° Cerney for a year at wages of either £5 or £6. (mark) 623- 4 April 1826. Elizabeth Jones She and her husband lived in a house which her husband rented of Mr. Wm. Verrinder in the hamlet of Barton St. Mary in the year 1818 for two years. The rent was £28 and her husband paid a year’s rent, (mark) 624. 12 April 1826. John Lies Born in Down Hatherley, where his parents are settled. About 15 years ago he was hired by Thomas Moreton of Down Hatherley for a year at 3| guineas or thereabouts. He has since been in the army. About 7 months ago he was married in Cheltenham to his wife Elizabeth, (mark) 625- 14 April 1826. Thomas Smith Bom in Burford, Oxon. About three and thirty years ago he was hired by Mr. Phillips of Charlbury, Oxon. for a year at about £4, and again for another year, (signs) Note: ‘Mary’ 626. 17 April 1826. James May all Bom in Redmarley, Worcs., where his parents were settled.settled, (mark) 627. 17 April 1826. Thomas Pauling Bom in Burford, Oxon., where his parents were settled, (mark) Note: ‘Orders made and removed’ 628. 26 April 1826. Ann Shurmer Bom in Wheatenhurst. About 4 years ago was hired by Mr. Freeman of Swindon, Glos., at Christmas, to serve until the next Michaelmas at the rate of 5 guineas a year, and was again hired . . . (unfinished) 629. 29 April 1826. Mary Chamberlain On 6 Mar. 1825 she was married at Kidderminster to Joseph Chamberlain who is now dead. She has heard that he was apprenticed to Thomas Raishly of Bruton, Som., cordwainer, for 7 years, as appears by an indenture bearing date the 6th day of Oct. 1812 under the hands and seals of the said Joseph, Elizabeth Chamberlain his mother, and the said Thomas. She has never heard her husband say that he gained a settle ment elsewhere, (mark) Note: ‘Joseph, 17 weeks old’ 89 8a CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 630. 4 May 1826. Thomas Gabb Bom in Stonehouse, where his father George Gabb and his family then resided. The family went to live in a small tenement in Eastington parish, whence they were removed about ten years ago to Hucclecote hamlet in Churchdown, where his father had gained a settlement by servitude with a farmer named Wilkins. The deponent about nine years ago went to live with his father and mother at Stonehouse, where he carried on the business of a carpenter. About 4 years ago he intermarried with his present wife, and about two years ago he came with his wife and family to reside in Cheltenham, where he rented a tenement at 2/6 per week which he quitted about a month ago. (signs) Note: ‘Orders made. Wife Ann, son Elijah aged two years* 631. 9 May 1826. Anne Barton, residing in Cheltenham Her husband, Thomas Barton, previous to his marriage lived as a yearly servant to Mr. Westmorcott of Longborough for a year, and she lived in the same service part of the same year. About 8 years ago she and her husband received relief from the parish officers of Longborough. Her son William Barton (no. 633) is 18 years of age and was bom in wedlock and has never to her knowledge done any act to gain a settlement in his own right, (mark) 632. 9 May 1826. William Stratford Bom in Uffingham, Berks. About 7 years ago was hired by Mr. Cox of Piccadilly in Prestbury for a year and two years afterwards, (mark) 633- 16 May 1826. William Barton (See also no. 631) Born in Longborough, where his parents were legally settled, (mark) 634- 21 May 1826. Samuel Sharp Bom in Aiderton, as he has been informed. About 9 years ago he was hired at Tewkesbury first Mop to Mr. Halford of Aston- upon-Carrant for a year at 4 guineas, (mark)
635- 27 May 1826. Mary Ann Warring Gale [sic, ?Warringale], single worn an Bom in Devonport, late Plymouth Dock, Devon, where her parents were settled. When about 16 she went to live with General Walker as a nurse at Teignmouth and was to have 10 guineas a year. She went with the family to Sidmouth and remained with them there two years; she was about 5 years with them altogether. No fresh agreement was made. She left the family at Sidmouth. (signs) 90 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 636. 6 June 1826. John Cook Born in Westbury, where his parents at that time resided. When he was about 18, his father left Westbury and went with his wife and family to the hamlet of Longford in St. Mary de Lode (Gloucester), the place of their settlement. He has been working about the country in different employments, (mark) Note: ‘Patience his wife, Matilda aged n years, Henry 8 and upwards, Hannah 5, and William 3. Orders made.’ 637- 6 June 1826. James Stagg, labourer Born in the parish of St. Andrew, Holbom, where his father and family were settled. His father removed to St. Matthew’s, Bethnal Green, when the examinant was about 3 years old, and, as he informed the examinant on several occasions, rented a house there at the yearly rent of £20. He continued to reside with his father there until he had attained nearly 11 years of age, when he left his parents and went to the Tower of London with a view to enter into the Merchants [stc] Service. He was taken by a press gang and put aboard a vessel where he remained about 3 weeks and was afterwards taken to Sheerness where he remained on board three years. He was put on board the Rattlesnake and sailed with convoy for the East Indies, whence he soon after returned and remained in the King’s service till within the last four years. He has since been working as a labourer in sundry places. He has a wife and one child and his wife is now in labour, (signs) Note: 'Grveney Stagg [sic, in the deponent’s handwriting], Ann 2| years old’ 638. 8 June 1826. William White Bom in Stanway. About 30 or 40 years ago he was hired by Thomas Pittman of Upper Swell for a year and received his year’s wages, about £6. He continued in the same service two years and a half, (mark) Note: ‘Hannah his wife. Orders made.’ 639- 15 June 1826. William Terry, blacksmith Born in Chipping Campden where his father was legally settled. His father and mother died when he was an infant under the age of 3 years. He was then supported by his grandfather who resided at Chipping Campden and who died when he was about 14 years old. He then went to live with his uncle, a smith at Campden, and worked in his trade for a year and a half; he was not apprenticed but was found meat, drink, clothes, and all necessaries, but no wages. He left his uncle and went to different places where he worked as a journeyman with different masters up to the present time, (signs)
8b CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 640. 17 June 1826. Joseph Drew Bom in Cubberley. About 26 years ago he was hired by James Humphries of Southfield Fann in Charlton Kings for a year at six guineas. Has since married his present wife Mary, with him until he was about 16 or 17, and is now married to Elizabeth who has one child by his son, an infant. About 6 years ago he was present when his son was hired to Mr. Green wood of Charlton Kings for a year at £6. (mark) 641. 17 June 1826. Thomas Birch Bom in St. Mary Alder[man]bury, London, and lived with his father until he was 21 years old. The three last years was in Silver Street, Fleet Street . . . (unfinished) 642. 4 July 1826. John Summers {See also no. 643) Has never gained a settlement in his own right, (mark) 643. 4 July 1826. Louisa Summers Her husband Charles Summers was settled at Alkington. She has received relief from the parish officers there when her husband, who was a soldier, was abroad. Her son John was bom after she was married to her husband whilst he was in the Army, (mark) 644. 6 July 1826. Lemuel Chandler, aged about 52, labourer Bom in Haresfield, where his father was settled, When near 20 years old he left his father and went into several services but never lived a whole year in either. When about 24 he enlisted into the Essex Fencibles and remained therein for 7 years and upwards, when the regiment was broken up and he was discharged. While he was a soldier he intermarried with his present wife in the county of Tipperary in Ireland, (signs) ★Note: ‘Bridgett his wife and Thos. their infant son aged about 2 years’ 645. 6 July 1826. Richard ?Surman, mason Bom in Maiseyhampton, where his father was settled. When about 18 he left his father and worked with different masters till he was about 21 years old, when he intermarried with his present wife, (signs) Note: ‘His wife Mary. Their son Thomas aged about 6 years, John about 5, Sarah about 4, Richard about 1, an infant about one week.’ 646. 14 July 1826. Watkins Staite Bom in the City of Gloucester . . . (unfinished) ♦ On opposite page, but probably refers to this deposition. 92 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 647- 18 July 1826. Ann Hopkins, singlewoman Bom in Newent, where her father resided. About ten years ago her father removed with his family to Barton St. Mary; she lived with them till she went into the service of Mr. John Cook, solicitor, of Gloucester, between two and three years ago. She lived with him for near ten months and then left and came to Cheltenham to live with her sister who is married to a person of the name of John Laine. Her sister told her she should live with her for a year, when she would be able to take a ?larger place which she would endeavour to get for her; and that she would give her 1/6 per week and find her board and lodging. She lived with her sister for two years, (mark) 648. 8 July 1826. Benjamin Williams, a prisoner now confined in His Majesty’s Gaol for the County of Gloucester. ‘I am about 34 years of age. I was bom in the parish of Dansey [PDauntsey] in Wiltshire. About 18 years ago I was hired for a year by Mr. Edwards of Yanworth at yd. per day. I remained in such service a whole year and received all my wages. About 6 years ago I was married in the parish church of Colesbome to my present wife, then Sophia Peachy, by whom I have two children, Julius aged 5 years and Mary Ann aged about 2 years, (mark) 649- 26 August 1826. Nicholas Landfear, now residing in Chelten ham His father and mother were persons travelling about the country and to his knowledge never gained a settlement. He never heard his parents say where he was bom. When about 13 he left his father and went to work as a day labourer with John Chandler of Crawley in Hants., with whom he worked for two years, and lived in his house and was found by him with board and lodging. His master discharged him and he went to work for himself, cutting and faggotting wood, and in the summer season reaping and turnip hoeing for near 3 years. About 15 years ago he went to Tetbury Mop and was hired by John Comely to serve his mother who lived at a farm called Cowl Hill in Thombury for one year at wages of 7 guineas. He then went about the country for near 4 years, when he returned to Thombury and at the following Lady Day was hired by Richard Napp of Shipperdine in Thombury for a year, (mark) 650. 29 August 1826. John Tustin, labourer Bom in Ripple, Worcs., where his parents were settled. He worked as a labourer in different parishes and counties till about 6 years ago, when he was hired at Tewkesbury first Mop 93 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 by Richard Roberts of Bishop’s Cleeve for a year. He was placed by Richard Roberts in a farm he occupied at Oxendon to thresh his com and do other things about the farm. He resided in the farmhouse there and was supplied with food by his master from Bishop’s Cleeve. He served the whole year and another year. Mr. Roberts afterwards employed him as a labourer upon the same farm. He continued for years, when he left and went to work in other parts of the country. He returned to Bishop’s Cleeve yesterday and was this morning married to his present wife, (mark) Note: ‘Elizabeth his wife. Orders granted.’ 651. 29 August 1826. John Watts His sister Pamela Watts (who is now living in Cheltenham and in a very ill state of health inasmuch as to be incapable of giving her evidence) resided with her parents in Minchin- hampton till within 4 or 5 months last past. The place of settlement of James Watts his father is in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. His sister was bom in Stonehouse, Glos. The said James Watts gained such settlement by apprenticeship. His said father hath been residing in Minchinhampton for many years, but the examinant hath heard his father say that he never gained a settlement there or anywhere in the county of Gloucester, (signs) 652. 2 September 1826. Martha Nutting Bom in Bredons Hardwicke, Worcs., where her parents were settled. About 7 years ago she was hired by Mr. Wm. Dancer of Swindon, Glos, for a year at 6 guineas. She lived with him two years under the same hiring and about two years after she was again hired by Mr. Dancer for a year, (mark) 653. 5 September 1826. John Sandford of Bishop's Clceve, labourer Bom in Cam. About a fortnight or 3 weeks before Old Michael mas Day five or six years ago he was hired by William Greening of Cam for a year from Michaelmas at £6:10:0. He continued till 3 days after the following Old Michaelmas Day. When he left his said master he went into different places but never remained in any service for a year, (mark)
94 GENERAL INDEX References in Arabic figures are to items, not pages; those in small Roman figures to the introductory pages. Places for which no county is stated are in Gloucestershire. Other places in England and Wales will be found under coun ties, Scottish and Irish places under Scotland and Ireland. A number of places, chiefly in Wales, have not been identified with certainty; they were doubtless mis-spelt by the justices’ clerk in taking down depositions from illiterate deponents. Surnames of employers, where neither the Christian name nor any information of interest is given, have not been indexed.
abbot, Wm., 224 artus, Thos., 620 ABENHALL alias ABINGHALL, 514 arundell, Hannah, 16 Gun’s mills in, 124 ‘asbrook’, Phoebe, 47 abingdon, Earl of, 447 ashchurch: acocks, Thos., 79 Aston-upon-Carrant in, 27, 634 acton: Fiddington in, 294, 411, 413, 542, Sarah,199, 225 545 Wm., 199, 225 ashleworth, 479, 513 adams: ashwin, Jas., 435 Eliz., 331 ATKINS, Job, 27 Hannah, 359 AVENING, 565 affield, Mary, 230 awre, 163, 534, 599 agg, Jas., J.P., xxii, xxiii ayland: agg-gardner family, xxiii Caroline, 577 AKERS,------, 82 Jn.,577 ALDERTON,634 Joseph,577 Dixton in,417, 476 Priscilla, 577 ALDSWORTH, 18 Robt., 577 ALLEN: Wm., 143 Catherine, 443 See also eyland Marshal, 48 ayline, Wm., 49 Sarah,443 Wm., 30b, 443 badgeworth, 3, 46, 101, 185, 229, ALLOWAY, Joseph, 442 233. 278, 373, 383, 409, 441, 498, ALMONDSBURY, 546 588 America (New York), 461 Bentham in, 278 AMPNEY, 33O bagot, Sarah, 194 AMPNEY, DOWN, 435 bailey, Jn., 338 AMPNEY ST. PETER, 468 baker: ANDREWS, Th0S., 279 Maria, 546 appleby, Mr. (Wolverhampton), 158 Rich., 546 apprenticeship, xix, xx, and passim BALLARD, ThOS., 31 archer, Sarah, 288 BALLINGER! arkell: Ben.,5II, 549 Ann, 385 Edward, 173 Chas., 40 Eliz., 268 Hannah, 385 Hannah, 324 Hen., 385 Mrs., 63 Jane, 385 Sam., 268 Jn., 366 Wm., 295 Wm., 385 baring, Mr. Moses, 548 ARLINGHAM, 49, 50, 163, 325, 34O, 524 barker, Daniel, 137 ARMSTRONG, Mr. (W. Indies), 342 BARNES: ARNOLD: Jas., 280 Athelia, 150 Jn.,394 Sarah, 535 BARNWOOD, 243, 360, 49I 95 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
BARNWOOD COURT, 33O birch, continued BARRETT: Mr. (Cartmel, Lancs,), 191 Jas., 197 Thos., 641 Mr., 16, 255 bird: BARRINGTON, LIT., 3OO Hannah, 469 barrow, Sarah, 196 Sam., xvii BARRY, Jas., 250 birdlip, 70, 385, 469 bartlett: bishop, Thos., 312 Jn., 408 bishop’s cleeve, 2, 10, 27, 58, 72, Rich., 434 102, 126, 195, 271, 281, 331, 370, BARTON ST. MARY, See GLOUCESTER 4I9» 485. 5T9» 54L 650, 653 barton: bisley, xiv n., 66, 67, 68, 69, 97, 131, Anne, 631 255 Thos., 631 BITTON, 375 Wm., 631, 633 blackford, Mary, 456 baylis: BLAKENEY, 326, 45I, 461 Lydia, 356 BLAKENEY, Robt., 27O Sarah,475 BLEDINGTON, II bayly, Jn., 258 bliss: beard: Jn., xx, 271 Joseph, 169 Wm., 490b, 490c Mary, 581 blist, Wm., 303 beaufort, Henry, Duke of, xvi BODDINGTON, 45, 85, 94, I48, 366, beavan: 412,446,539 Mary, 27 Butler’s Court in, 604 Sarah, 26 Haydon in, 340, 412 See also bevan boheme, Edwin, 20 BENNETT: bolinbroke, Chas., 467 Jn.,75 bond, Mary, 237 Mr. (Sevenhampton), 79 boswell: beny, Mary, 88 Ann, 524 BERKELEY, 253, 577 Mary, 325 Alkingtonin, 418, 577, 643 boucher: BERKSHIRE Catharine, 560 Abingdon, 88, 334, 335, 337 Jn., 560 Faringdon, 331 'boulton' (Glos.), 112 Lambourn, 420 bourton-on-the-hill, 231 Shilton, 430 bourton-on-the-water, 156, 435, Uffingham (?Uffington), 632 469 Uffton (?Uffington), 410 bouthrop: Windsor, 287 alias eastleach martin, q.v. Wittenham (‘Witham’), 447 bowell, Sarah, 202 Berwick, Hen., 413 bowles, Wm., 153 bevan: BRADSHAW, Jas., I 12 Eliz., 449 brady, Michael, 619 Walter, 29 BRAGGINS, Elisha, 487 See also beavan BRAMPTON, Agnes, 508 bibury: brassington. Patience, 264 Arlington in, 134 BRECONSHIRE BICKHAM, Mrs., 479 Combdean, 29 billings, Mr. (Cheltenham), 272 Devenog (Devynock), Glinton in, BINGHAM, Jn., 132 j54 single: Lanvino (?Llanfillo), 317 Edward, 302 Lianvegan,159 Hannah, 302 Llanvenock (PLlanfrynach), 154 Mary, 302 BREESNALL, Mr., 342 Rich., 302 BRETHERTON,------, 166 birch: brewer: Eliz., 377 Ann, 564 96 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 brewer, continued butler, continued Dennis ?Hale, 564 Mr. (Worthall, Cheltenham), 545 Jas., 302 Stephen, xxi, 347 Jn.,564 Susan,347 Mary Ann, 564 butt, Jas., 165 Wm., 564 brice: cadogan, Catherine, 599 Eliz., 587 calcott: Jn.,587 Anne, 482 brimpsfield, 70, 385, 437 Jane, 482 BRISTOL,6l, 123, I46, 161,361,408,598 Rich., 482 Baptist Mills near, 408 Wm.,482 Clifton, 35, 545, 560 CALLARD, Robt., 536 Hospital, 253 CAM, 653 BROCKHAMPTON, 25, 102, 239, 256, CAMBRIDGE: 33L 417 Ben., 255 BROCKWORTH, 49, I43, 372 Wm., 330 Cooper’s Hill in, 150 capper, Robt., J.P., xxii, xxiii BROOMFIELD: CAREY, Jn., 116 Joseph, 343 CARMARTHENSHIRE Rebecca, 343 Carmarthen, 567 broughton. Captain, 253 Llanarthney, 466 brown(e): Llanstephan, 466 Eliz., 2 carpenter: Jn.,2, 333 Mary Ann, 59, 78 Thos., 147 Thos., 548 browning: Carruthers, Edward P., 301 Chas., xvii carter, Mr. (Malmesbury), 64 Geo., 123 Cartwright, Mrs. (Cheltenham), 479 Jn., xvii caudle, Joel, 74 Martha, xvii cerney, south, 622 Mary, xvii chamberlain: Buckingham, Dan., 83 Eliz., 629 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Joseph, 629 Aylesbury, 20 Mary, 629 BUCKLAND, 31 champion, Jn., 450 buckland, Mr. (Cricklade), 564 chandler: buckle: Bridget, 644 Hen., 412 Jn., 649 Jn., 446 Lemuel, 644 Joseph, 380 Mary Ann, 141 Walter, 446 Thos., 644 Wm., xviii, 72 chapman: bullock: Giles, 4 Sarah,308 Mr. (Claines, Worcs.), 199 Thos., xxi, 166 CHARLEY, Jn., 297 burbridge, Philip, xx, 108 CHARLTON, 8l BURBY, Thos., 432 CHARLTON ABBOTS, I75, 275 BURFORD: CHARLTON KINGS, pOSStM Sarah, xxi, 593 Southfields Farm in, 4, 640 Thos., 593 CHELTENHAM, passim burgess, Ben., xxi, 290 Alstone in, 55, 114, 160, 173, 238 burrows: Arie in, 58, 72, 501 Edward, 336 Artus Field in, 23 Jn., 490c Crown Inn, 16, 255 Rich., 204 Plough Inn, xviii, ?479 butler: Sandford Mill, 14 Ann, 347 Sun Inn,166 Mr. (Prestbury), 88 Worthall in, 545 97 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
CHELTENHAM HUNDRED, Xviii COLLEY: CHELTENHAM JUSTICES, XXii Hannah, 406 CHELTENHAM PETTY SESSIONS, Xviii Jn., 180, 406 CHELTENHAM POPULATION, xviii, xxi Rich., 441 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMI collier, Joseph, 136 NATIONS, xvii, xviii collins: cherington, Sam., 526, 584 Edward, 178 CHESHIRE Jn., 178 Chester, City of, 157 Alary, 22,178 chew, Sarah, 227 Rich., 392 CHIPPING CAMPDEN, 462, 639 Sarah,205 CHURCHAM,296 ------. 379 CHURCHDOWN, 48, 230 COLN ROGERS, 87 CIRENCESTER, 7a, 71, I44, 2I4, 249, COMBE, Jn., 14 346, 43I, 442, 517, 534, 622 COMELY, Jn., 649 clark(e): compton: Eliz., 558, 583 ELIZ., I72 Hen., 598 Louisa, 172 Jas., 598 Sam., 21 Jn., 425, 598 Sarah,89 Jonathan Watson, 558, 583 Wm., 172 Mary Ann, 598 constable: Rich., 598 Eliz., 592 Thos., 598 Jacob, 592 Wm., xxi, 349 cook(e): cleeve, see bishop’s cleeve Ann, 99, 621 CLEMENTS, Jas., 289, 39I Cornelius, 484 CLEVELY, Wm., 490a, 490b, 490c Daniel, 142 CLIFFORD: Eliz., 484 Hen., 586 Geo., 426 Jas., 586 Hannah, 636 Jn., 586 Hen., 636 Mary, 580, 586 Jn., 79, 621, 636, 647 Matilda, 636 Sam., 397a, 397t> Wm., 580 Mr. (Bredon, Worcs.), 8 Patience, 636 close, Maria, 574 Thos., xxi, 621 cloth industry, xx and n., 63, 279 Wm.,636 clutterbuck: coomb, Hannah, 424 J-, 84 Jas., J.P., xxii, xxiii cooper: Ann, 462 coates, Thos., 510 Geo., 462 cobb, Timothy, 221 Martha, 462 coberley, 81, 83, 100, no, 382, 456, 640 Rich., xx, 462 Hailing Wood in, 380 Thos., 444 COLD ASTON, 435 Wm., 462 CORNTHWAITE, Jas., 246 COLE, Jn., 216 CORNWALL coleford, 35 Helston, 127 COLEMAN: Sunningchurch, 56 Eliz., 244 corse, 98, 429, 445 Geo., 244 corse court, 394 COLESBOURNE, 648 COTHER, Wm., 262 coley, Susannah, 534 cotton & cochen, Messrs., 32 COLLETT: court, Jane, 309 Ann, 540 cowen, Mary, 299 Harriet, 540 COWLEY, 588 Jas., 540 cox: Joseph, 540 Chas., 445 98 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 cox, continued davison, continued John, 91 Wm., 541 Joseph, 445 dawkins, Jane, 466 Mary, 445 day: Mr. (Prestbury), 228, 632 Dr. (Maidstone), 474 craddock: Esther, 420 Eliz., 384 Jas., m See also cratuck Jn.,295 cranham, 262, 579 Thos., 420 cratuck: Wm., 295 Ann, 350 ------, 609 Walter, 350 dean(e): crawley. Sir Thos., 183 Eliz., 119, 218, 247 craze, Thos. Duckham, 543 Mr. (Gloucester), 258 cresser, Rich., 18 Sarah,149 cresswell, Wm., 122 deerhurst, 210, 575 crisp, Chas., 415 Appcrley in, 196 crump: Notley in, 19 Charlotte, 307, 378 DEERHURST WALTON, 542 Eliz., 307, 378 DENBIGHSHIRE Isaac, 390 Wrexham, 285 Jacob, 390 denby, Dinah, 100, no Jn.,9, 390 DERBYSHIRE Sarah,390 Belper, 22 Thos., 307, 378 DEVON Wm., xxi, 307, 378 Camartin (?Combe Martin), 297 cull, Mr. (Sandford Mill, Chelten Devonport, 635 ham), 14 Exeter, 220, 223 CUMBERLAND Lockspear, 543 Carlisle, 311 Mod bury, 116 Dean,190 Plymouth Dock, 328, 635 Whitehaven, 190 Sidmouth, 635 curtis: Stonehouse, 333 Ben., 298 Teignmouth, 635 Geo., 211 Topsam (Topsham), 353 didbrook,611 DAGLINGWORTH, 263, 414 DILLON, Jn., 319 DANCER, Wm., 652 DIPPER, Jn., IO DARKE*. DODD, Jn., 460 Allen, j86 dodwell: Chas., 386 Chas., 493 Mary, 386 David, 25 daunder, Jn., 515 Thos., 277 davies, Wm., J.P., xxii domestic service, xx, xxi, and passim davis: DONE, see DUNN Aaron, 97 DORSET Ann, 24 Bridport, 145 Comfort, 65, 212 DOUGHTY, Jn., 382 Jas., 480 DOWDESWELL, 13, 52, 74, 214, 215, Rev. Mr., 214 436,522,584 Sam., 67 dowles, Ann, 44 Thos., 68 DOWLING, Jn., 465 Wm., 66, 348 downe. Lord, 261 davison: dowsett, Mary, 300 Fred., 541 drew: Maria, 541 Eliz., 640 Mr. (Ashchurch), 413 Jas., 640 Rich., 542 Joseph, 640 Sam., xxi, 542 Mary, 640 99 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
druett, Hen., 84 FAIRFORD,I34 DUMBLETON, l8, 307, 378, 4I3, 47I fairs, hiring at, passim DUNN (done): farley, Sam., 446 Ann, 85 FARMINGTON, 324 Jn., 145.507 Faulkner, Edward, 525 Thos., 85 field: DURHAM Daniel, 402 ‘Dallington’ (?Darlington), 38 Jn.,538 Durham City, 240 Sarah, 402, 538 Durham, Mr. (Postlip), xxi, 183 finch: DURSLEY, I74 Jn.,397a. 397t> dutton, Mr. (Birmingham), 198 Mary, 165 dyer: fisher: Caroline, 611 Jn., 257, 473 Jn., 611 Rich., 611 dymock, 273, 616 FITZGERALD: Colonel, xxi, 496 EAST INDIES, 637 Jn.,357 EASTINGTON, 186, 574 Lucy, 357 eastington (near stroud), 630 FLETCHER, ThOS., 7I EASTINGTON, alias AMPNEY ST. PETER foley, Revd. Mr., 119 q.v. foote, Mrs. (Chatham), 344 EASTLEACH, 389, 428 FORTHAMPTON, 139, 273, 575, 576 EASTLEACH MARTIN, 205 foulkes, Revd. Hen., 273 EBRINGTON, 224 fowler: EDWARDS: Rich., 362 Ann, 563 Thos., 104, 416 Jn., xxi, 249 frampton-on-severn, 599 Thos., 612 freeman: egar, Jas., 602 Adam, 575, 576 ELDRIDGE, Ann, 251 Ann, 576 ELKSTONE, 377, 437 Ben., 19 elliott, Jonathan, 528 Harriet, 60 ELMORE, 366 ELMSTONE HARDWICKE, 102, 392, 413, Jane, 576 ELSMORE, Wm., 45O [566 Mary, 613 EMIGRATION, XX, 328, 329, 461 Robt., 73 EMLEN, Jn., 550 Wm.,xxi, 239, 575 ESSEX ------. 77 frog castle (near Gloucester), 235 Henny, 318 Leighton (Leyton), 125, 265 fryer: Thorpe(e), 183 Hannah, 327 Wickham (?Wickham Bishops), 318 Joseph, 327 Writtie, 265 Levi, 327 ESSEX FENCIBLES, 644 fudge, Edward, 381 EVANS: fuller, Dr., 393 Edward, 36 Jn., 106 gabb: Mary, 516 Ann, 630 Robt., 174 Elijah, 630 Sarah, 367, 396 Geo., 630 Susanna, 57 Thos., 630 ------, 381 gainer, Wm., 416 eves, Jn., 318 GARDNER (GARDINER): eyland, Mary, 418 Catherine, 214, 533 eyles : Eliza, 214, 533 Hannah, 437 Joseph, 214, 533 Jn.,437 Rich. Burrup, 171 Wm., 437 Sarah, 214, 215, 533 100 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 garner, Wm., 104 hale: gaskin, Hen., 102 Eliz., 439 GASKINS, Wm., 331 Joseph, 439 gay, Martha, 602 hall: GERRARD*. Eliz., 376 Edward, 387 Jn.,527 Eliza, 387 hall, continued Martha, 387 Mary, no Mary Ann, 387 Patience, 310 Thos., 387 Wm., 83 gethin, Wm., 105 HALLOWAY, Joseph, 442 GILDER, Wm., XX, 183 HAM DAYHOUSE, 313 GILES, Eliz., 187 HAMILTON, Wm., I 15 GILLETT, Joseph, 217 HAMLET, Jn., 278 GLAMORGAN hamms, Jane, 433 Llangovelen, 299 HAMPNETT, 303 Swansea, 299 HAMPSHIRE Gloucester, passim Bishop’s Stoke, 496 Bearland in, 171 Crawley, 649 Black Horse Inn, 258 Gosport, 115 Gaol, 648 Kingston (near Portsmouth), 261 Infirmary, 273 Portsmouth, 145, 253 King's Head Inn, 465 Southampton, 316, 342, 474 New Inn, 59 Twyford, 374 GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT., Xvii HAMPTON, Jn., 502 goatman, Mary, 513 hancks, Thos., 435 GOTHERINGTON, 2, 15, 108, 122, 362, HARDING, Ann, 352 446,477»5O3.5I5 HARDWICK, Thos., 352 green: HARDWICKE, 258, 6l6 Ann, xix, 240 HARESCOMBE, Xvi Catherine, 240 HARESFIELD, 83, 212, 262, 644 Hen. Pou ten, 219 HARFORD, LOWER, 23 I Jn., 240 HARMAN, T11OS., 3 Maria, 240 HARMER, Wm., 515 greenhill, Jane, 471 harper: greening: Geo., 101 Ann, 412 Hannah, 101 Chas., 412 Thos., 101 Eliz., 412 Wm., 238 Jn.,412 Harrington, Timothy, 252 Wm., 94, 653 Harris: greenwood: Ann, 491 Edward, 58 Harriet, 491 Jn.,58 Hester, 399 griffin: Joseph, 595 Mr. (Worcester), 199 Lewis, 176 Wm., 75, 301 Robt., 108 guest: Sam., 491 Ann, 45 Wm., 1, 491 Geo., 45 harrison: Isaac, 45 Alice, 144 Joseph, 45 Jn.,494 Thos., 45 hartopp, Sir Edmund, 560 Wm., 45 harvey, Edward, 439 guy, Dinah, 265 hasbrook, Phoebe, 47 HASELTON (HAZLETON), 243 HAILES, 217 HASFIELD, 65, l6o hailing, Mary, 155 HASSALL, Jn., 452 HAINES, Thos., XX, 158 hatch, Mr. (Gloucester), 59 101 9 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
HATHAWAY: herbage, Ann, 274 Esther, 120 HERBERT, Jn., 94 Peter, 120 HEREFORDSHIRE Simon, 621 Aston Ingham, 514 HATHERLEY, DOWN, 624 Bredwardine ('Bedwardinc’), 457 HATHERLEY, UP, 17b, II4, 278, 455 Burleigh (?Burley Gate), 553 hawker: Blakemore (PBlakemere), 528 Catharine, xxi, 594 Bridstow, 53, 570 Chas., 292 ?Dawson, 457 Dennis, 391 Dewchurch, Lit., 348 Eliz., 11 Eastnor, 189 Esther, 292 Hanbury, 356 Hannah, 185 Hereford, 41, 343, 598 Isaac, 102 Heywood (Haywood), 161 Jack, 292 Kington, 605 Jas., 292 Ledbury, 206, 597, 606 Jasper, 185 Linton,339 Mary, 185, 292 Lugwardine, 423 Sarah,185, 292 Moccas, 528 Wm., 11, 292 Pern bridge, 555 HAWKES: Ross-on-Wye, 352, 387, 571 Chas., 489 Scllack, 53, 509 Eliz., 404 Upton Bishop, 352 Jas., 489 Whitburne (Whitbourne), 569 Maria, 489 Winslow, Hardwicke House in, 449 Mary, 404 heritage: Sarah,472 Eliz., 488 Wm., 489 Rich., 488 hawkesbury, xvi, xvii hewer, Margt., 481 HAWKINS: hicks: Joseph,280 Wm., J.P., xxii, xxiii Martha, 280 Rev. Wm., xxii Mary Ann, 280 higgs, Charlotte, 470 Nathaniel, 280 HIGHNAM, 218, 247, 429 Rebecca, 161 hill: Thos., 161 Edward, 306 hawling, 14 Elijah, 109 hayden, Mr. (Upton-on-Severn, Rich., 506 Worcs.), 355 hinder, Fanny, 162 hayling, Ben., 339 HINDLEY, see HINGLEY HAYWARD: HINDS, Jn., 285 Jn., 461 hine: Maria, 451 David, 440 Thos., 621 Joseph, 462 HAZLETON, See HASELTON hingley: heads, Rich., 153 Eliz., xx, 328 HEATH, Jn., 26l Wm., 328, 329 hedginhill, Jas., xix, 82 hiring of labour, passim hemings, Sarah, 28 hitchcox, Sarah, 209 hemming: HITCHMAN, Wm., 232 Betty, 477, 478 HOBBS: Hen., 300 Eliz., 545 Jn., 300 Mary, 419 Mary, 478 Thos., 34 Rich., 300 hogg. Patience, 213 HEMPSTEAD, 339, 4O7, 546 holder, Eliz., 35 henry: HOLLAND: Helen, 358 Chas., 410 Luke, 358 Eliz., 403 102 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
HOLLAND, continued Ireland, continued Jn.,373 Tallaght (Co. Dublin), 432 Mary, 9, 46 Tipperary, 644 Wm., 403 Ireland: hone, Hannah, 133 Ann, 417 hope, Sarah, 121 David, 554, 579 hopkins: Mary, 554 Ann, 647 IRISH PAUPERS, XV Hannah, xvii JACKSON: Jas., 362 Eliz., 452 Lucy, 362 Geo., 452, 453 Mary, 421a, 421b Wm., 452, 453 hopkinson, Anthony, 76 james: hopton, Robt., 233 Ann, 81 horton, Mr. (Cheltenham), 47 Geo., 81 hoskyns, Ann, 107 Mary, 415 Thos., 257 HOWARD, Rich., 170 jefferies: howe: Jn.,77 Dennis, 259 Robt., 609 Martha, 259 JEFFS, Jn., 455 howell, Thos., 351 JENNER, Thos., 83 HUCCLECOTE, 362, 615, 630 JENNINGS: hughes: Jas., 500 Ann, 395 Margt., 567 Chas., 395 Thos., 567 Jas., 395 HULBERT, Sam., 229 Wm., 395 HUMPHRIES: jerrett: Jas., 640 Hannah, 38 Margt., 70 Wm., 38 JEYNES: hunder, Jn., 95 Eliz., 617 HUNT, Wm., 246 Harriet, 617 hunter: Hen., 617 Jn.,234 Wm., 80, 617 Robt., 248 job, Wm., 86 HUNTLEY, I 19, I49, 2l8, 247 jobson, Wm., 168 HYETT, Wm., 224 Johnson: Jas., 290 Ingram: Thos., xx, 105 Ann, 539 jones: Eliz., 539 Caroline, 42 Thos., 539 Eliz., 623 Wm., 539 Jn.,27 IRELAND, 227, 252, 269, 319, 529» Joseph, 129 572,596 Mary, 27, 400, 457 Belfast, 614 Sarah,573 Co. Cork, 250, 358 Thos., 323, 400 Dublin, 270, 319, 467 jordan: Castle Conncl (Co. Limerick), 357 Jn.,256 Dundalk (Co. Louth), 304, 505 Mary, 334, 335, 336 Enniskillen (Co. Fermanagh), 529 Michael, 610 ?Glennew (Co. Limerick), 572 joye. Rich., 44 Tolymore (King’s Co.), 507 Limerick, 116 Monerstown (Co. Wicklow), 345 keasey, Mary, 596 Queen’s Co., 37 KEEGAN: Salbridge (Co. Kildare), 354 Dominic Mullany, 529 Swineford (Co. Mayo), 619 Farrell, 529 103 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
KELLOW: LAWRENCE: Eliz., xix, 13S Jas., 90 Peter, 138 Nathaniel, 334 kelty, Mr. (Oaklands, Cheltenham), Robt., 494 88 W.,491 KEMPLEY, 405 lea: KEMPSFORD, 592 Ann, 81 KENT Mary Ann, 182 Chatham, 249, 251, 344, 474 leake, Jn., 43 Greenwich, 249 LECKIIAMPTON, XXli, 62, IOI, I IO, 133, Maidstone, 474 173, 184, 217, 238, 249, 372, 376, Sandwich, 289 422,433,454,455,513,515 Tunbridge Wells, 496 LEDIARD, GOO., 206 killigar, Michael, 269 leek, Jn., 43 king: LEEMAN, Colonel, 371 Eliza, 394 LEICESTERSHIRE Philip, 293 Loughborough, 76 Sarah,394 leidlam, Francis, 22 Thos., 394, 504 LEIGH (THE), 19, 51, 91, 272, 279, 291, kitchen, Thos., 271 468,492 knee, Widow, 575 Evington in, 370 KYTE, Thos., I 16 LEONARD: Ann, 311 LAKEHAM, Robt., 76 Jn.,311 lampiere, Revd. Mr., 334 lewis: LANCASHIRE David, 266 Cartmel ('Cartmill’), 191 Jn., 222 Coulton (Colton), 191 Maria, 96 Liverpool, 56, 240, 567 Mary, 222 Manchester, 607 lies: Prestwich, 157 Eliz., 624 LANCASTER, Jn., 594 Jn., 624 LANDFEAR, Nichs., xix, 649 LINCOLNSHIRE lane: Althorpe, 298 Ben., 23, 597 Grimsby, 328, 329 Chas., 401 LITERACY, xviii Eliza, 241 little: Eliz., 606 Esther, 372 Jas., 401 Jas., 48, 372 Jn., 401, 647 Wm., 143, 372 Martha, 606 LITTLEDEAN, 169 Mary, 90 LITTLEWORTH, 166 Miss (Upton-on-Severn), 399 LLEWELLYN: Rich., 23 Lucretia, 570, 571 Sarah, 597 Sam., 570, 571 Susan,401 lloyd, Mr. (Abenhall), 124 Wm., 606 London, passim langbridge, Mr. (Cheltenham), 439 long: lapper: Ann, 501 Ann, 464 Eliz., 562 Jas., 464 Geo., 55 Jn., 464 LONG & LAMBERT, Messrs., 454 Philadelphia, 464 LONGBOROUGH, 63I, 633 Wm., 464 Quart Pot Inn in, 379 large: LONGFORD,636 Ann, 544 LONGNEY, l6l, 407, 535 Thos., 544 lovesy, Mr. (Charlton Kings), 403, LARNER, Jn., 114 490c LASSINGTON, 443 lovett, Mr. (Cheltenham), 273 104 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 lowe, Joseph, 278, 383 midwinter, Mr. (Whittington), 325 lowton, Wm., 205 miles, Daniel, 235 ludlow, Franklin, 42 MILITARY SERVICE, 2, l8, 95, I46, I53, lush: 24O, 266, 318, 362, 365, 448, 462, Mary, 552 491, 517, 624, 643, 644. See also Wm., 552 NAVAL SERVICE LYDNEY, 326 MILLARD: lyne: Esther, 243 Susannah, 588 Jn.,243 Wm., 588 Thos., 243 mills: mcbride, Sarah, 125 Ann, 130 macclothin, Eliza, 388 Wm., 460 mcdonnougii, Ann, 608 MINCHINHAMPTON, XXii, 57, 302, 434, MACLAGAN, GcO., 47I 581,651 MACPHERSON, Sir Jn., 198 MINSTERWORTH, 339 maddox, Thos., 457 MISERDEN, 53O MAIDEN, Jn., 181 mitton: mail: Ann, 512 Sarah,486b Margt., 512 Susannah,486a,486b Wm., 512 MAISEMORE, 39, l6o, 291, 321 mollineux, General, 35 maisey: MONCRIEF, Hen., 190 Eliz., 148 MONMOUTHSHIRE Mrs. (Cheltenham), 25 Abergavenny, 502 MAISEYHAMPTON, 645 Blanowan (?Blaenavon), 336 MALLETT, Jn., Ill Chepstow, 6, 408, 550 manning, Isaac, 318 Llanfarnam, 563 MARRIS, Wm., 159 Llangholm, 107 marsh, Frances, 361 Middleston Vader, 176 MARSTON, Thos., 211 Monmouth, 1, 35, 317, 415 martin: Pantegue (Pantcg), 595 Jn.,231, 379 Peterston, 176 Mary, 231 Montague, Admiral, 261 Thos., 379 moore: mason, Robt., 52 Jn.,37 masters, Mr. (Cirencester), 82 Wm., 444 MATSON, IOI MORETON-IN-MARSH, 462 Matthews: MORETON, Thos., 624 Ann, 435 MORGAN: Edward, 13, 622 Chas., 176 Eliz., 435 Eliz., 154 Emma, 435 Jas., 40 Jn., 314, 435 Jn., 287 Joseph,435 Wm., 563 Mary, 435 morris: Sam., 339 Daniel, 570 mayall, Jas., 626 Edward, 425 mayo: Jn., 425, 621 Prudence, 203, 245 Mrs. (Pershore and Barton.Worcs.), Thos., 245 201 Wm. Hen., 245 Robt., 330 melvin, Ann, 393 Sarah,425 MERRYMAN, Jn., 425 Wm., 425 middlecut, Mary, 263 morse, Jn., 498 MIDDLESEX moss: Brentford, 448 Eliz., 519 Ealing, 286 Tabitha, 447 Enfield, 393. 557 mulcock, Priscilla, 438 105 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
murphy: Northamptonshire, continued Clement, 374 Slapton,488 Mary, 374 Wappenham, 487, 488 MURRELL: northleach, 470, 517 Edmund, 411 NORTHUMBERLAND Eliz., 411 Berwick-upon-Tweed, 290 MUSTOE, 62, 229 NORTON, 151, 195, 209, 211, 407 mutlow, Eliz., 509 NOTGROVE, Jas., 5 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE nailsworth, 164 Arnold, 314 NAPOLEONIC WARS, xiv, Xvii, xix. Nottingham, 318, 329 See also military and naval nunney: SERVICE Ann, 276 napp, Rich., 649 Jn., 276, 300 NASH: Joseph, 276 Eliz., 8 nutting, Martha, 652 Jn.,167, 455 Mary, 456 oakey, Rich., 93 Rich., 456 ODDINGTON, 481 Thos., 454, 455 olveston (Tockingtonin), 573 NAVAL SERVICE, 2, 20, 86, 253, 27I, onslow, Ann, 208 328, 330, 369, 44S, 637 OWENS, Thos., 605 NEALE: OXENDON, 650 Maria, 175 OXFORDSHIRE Revd. Mr., 210 Alvend,447 Robt., 607 Aston, 221 nelmes: Banbury, 221, 224 Sarah,514 Barton, 456 Thos., 514 Binford (perhaps Burford), 261 NEW BRUNSWICK (ST. JOHN’S), 29O Black Bourton, 82 NEWENT, I40, 332, 338, 548, 647 Brize Norton, 267 Boulsdon in, 405 Burford, 5, 232, 276, 300, 590, 609, NEWLAND, 546, 560 625, 627 NEWMAN: Charlbury, 625 Esther, xix, 30a Charlton, 202 Thos., 446 Chipping Norton, m, 151, 594 NEWNHAM-ON-SEVERN, I40, 177, 498 Clanfield, 500 Newport, Mr. (Bath), 504 Cowley, 410 NEWTON: Cuddesdon, 355 Ann, 531 ‘Curbedge’ (Curbridge), 482 Chas., 531 Dorchester, 88, 236 Jane, 531 Dunstice, 456 Sarah,531 Elsficld, 312 niblett: Evenlode, 588 Eliz., 565 ‘Ensam’ (Eynsham), 88 Job, 565 Filkins, 389, 464 Mr. (Maisemore), 291 Fulbrook, 175, 447, 532 Sarah, 565 Henley-on-Thames, 142 Thos., 565 Kelmscott, 438 Wm., 39 Kidlington, 236 Nicholas, Jn., 127 Kingham, 447, 481 niff, Thos., 191 Oxford, 334, 349, 47°» 489 NOLGROVE, Jas., 5 Pcrshore Bradncll, 464 NOOKES, Thos., 409 Sarsden, 481 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Shiplakc, 371 Dankberry, 488 Shipton-under-Wychwood, 414,532 ‘Middleton China’ (Cheney), 487 Swinbrook, 447 Northampton, 462 Witham, see Wittenham, berks. ‘Oxen’ (POxendon), 246 Witney, 320, 559 io6 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
Oxfordshire, continued Pennington, David, 551 Woodstock, 221 PENNY, Mary, 344 Woolvercot, 452 pensom, Jn., 239 PERKINS, Thos., 262 PACKMAN, Thos., 420 perrott: page: Edwin, 530 Eliz., 421b Eliz., 530 Wm., 15 Rich., 530 paget, Simon, 604 PERRY, MARY, 186 paine, Susannah, 151 PETERS, CHAS., 365 painswick, 34, 44, 63, 99, 141, 207, phelitzer, Baroness, 47 469.518,522,530,573 PHELPS: Brownshill in, 301 Hester, 503 paish : Wm., 163 Jn., 18 Phillips: Mary, 18 Ann, 53 panter, Wm., 193 Diana, 61 PARDON HILL, 257 piff, Thos., 292 PARKER: pike: Ann, 521 Charlotte, 64 Geo., 6 Eliz., 64 Hannah, 313 Hen., 64 Isaac, 520, 521, 528 Jas., 64 Mary, 521 Joseph, 64 Sam., 521 Oliver, 64 Sarah, 10 pimble, Sarah, 429 Wm., 520 pink, Thos., xix, 261 parrott, Geo., 504 pitt: parry, Mary, 177 Jas., 70 parsloe: Jn.,273 Alex., 414 Robt., 273 Ann., 414 Wm., 273 Eliz., 414 PITTMAN, Thos., 638 Esther, 414 pointer, Geo., 132 Maria, 414 pool(e): Mary, 414 Eliz., 339 Thos., 414 Mary, 380 Wm., 414 Thos., 55 partridge: Wm., 339 Edwin, 556 poor law: Hen., 556 Acts of Parliament, xiii, xiv, xv, Jemima, 556 xviii Patrick, Rich., 118 Unions, xv, xvi PAULING, Thos., 627 postlip, 183 peachy, Sophia, 648 poulton (Wilts., now Glos.), 192, 255 peacy: powell: Mary, 188 Amelia, 41 Wm., 188 Jn., 145, 509 pearce: Susan,332 Ann, 517 Wm., 171 Eliz., 517 POWLEY, Mr. (Worcester), 199 Jn.,459 preece, Fanny, 423 Joseph, 517 press gang, xx, 637 Thos., 604 PRESTBURY, XXii, l8, 72, I5I, I58, pearse, Revd. Wm., 23 182, 184, 189, 239, 263, 369, 403, PEARSON, Wm., 117 443. 458, 460, 473. 494. 5<>o, 5<>3. peart, Charlotte, 537 544,611 pegin, Jn., 190 Cakebridge in, 359 pendry, Harriet, 722 Knowle Hill in, 228 107 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
Prestbury, continued robinson, Jn., 473 Oaklands in, 88 ROCKHAMPTON, XXii Piccadilly in, 632 RODBOROUGH, XVii price: rodway: Joseph, 525 Ann, 616 Robt., 517 Wm., 616 See also brice roe, Jn., xxi, 253 prinn, Wm. Hunt, J.P., xxii, xxiii roel, 216, 494 prior. Geo., 442 ROGERS: pritchard, Miss (Stroud), 16 Edward, 32 proctor, Wm., 257 Geo., 56 purser. Rich., 463 Giles, 263 Lawrence, 584 quedgeley, 472, 489 Matilda, 56 quenington, 52 Thos., 286 RADNORSHIRE rolles, Francis, 559 Knighton, 241 ROURKE, Dennis, 345 Rhayader, 266 rowland, Wm., 50 ragg, Robt., 578 RUCK, Eliz., 96, 592 raikes, Robt., xxi, 183 RUDFORD,576 RAISHLEY, Th0S., 629 RUSSELL: RANDALL (RANDLE), GeO., XXi, 63 Chas., 51 RANDELL, Eliza., 431 Eliz., 87 randwick, Ruscombe in, 54, 137 rutter: rayer, Mary, 351 Chas., 601 read: Charlotte, 601 Jn., 200 Louisa, 601 Thos., 27 Sarah,601 reddick, Mary, 505 REDM ARLEY (WOTCS., HOW GlOS.), sadler, Margt., 499 194,230,347,463,626 SALPERTON, 460, 621 rees, Jn., xix, 93 salter, Revd. Mr., 410 reeve: SANDFORD, 406 Ann, 360 SANDFORD: Jas., 317 ... . Jn., 653 REMOVAL OF PAUPERS, Xlll, XIV Robt., 189 appeal against, xiii SANDHURST, 30b, 92 rendcomb, 372 sarjeant, Wm., 603 richards, Oliver, 39, 291 saul, Epney in, 574 RICHARDSON: saul, Wm., xx, 124 Esther, 479 SAUNDERSON, Jn., 550 Jn-. 38° sayer, Mary, 555 RICKETTS: scandrett, Mr., (Kington, Herefs.), Geo., 374 605 Hannah, 296 SCOTLAND, 614 Hugh, 296 Ayr, 248 riddell. Colonel, 393 Balcrystie (Fife), 183 RIORDAN: Edinburgh, 200 Ann, 572 Glasgow, 197, 341, 363 Jn.,572 Greenock, 315 roberson. General, 183 scott: ROBERTS: Beata, 71 Esther, 547 Rich., 71 Geo., 3 SCOTTISH PAUPERS, XV Jn., 369. 561 SCRIVENER, Wm., 556 Josiah, 547 SCROTCHLEY, Robt., 54 Rich., 650 SCUDDER, TllOS., 476 Thos., 526 SETTLEMENT Wm., 567 certificates, xiv 108 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 settlement, continued smith, continued disputes between parishes over, xiv Herbert, 530 examinations, xiii, xvi-xviii Hester, 322 law of, xiii Jas., 585 means of acquiring, xiii-xv Jn., 368, 431 records, xv, xvii Jonathan, 463 SEVENHAMPTON, 55, 79, 172, 175, Joseph, 322 193,359, 424,45<>, 593 Mary, 465, 523, 600, 625 sharp: Sarah, 6 Jane, 614 Susannah,164 Jn., 614 Thos., 625 Sam., 614 Wm.,585, 589 sharpen, Mr. (Grimsby), 328, 329 snell,------, esq., 261 shayler: SNELUS, Jn., 519 Eliz., 452 SODBURY, 165 Jas., 303 sole: shekell, Thos., 386 Geo., 113 SHERBORNE,609 Jane, 113 Sherborne, Lord, 470 Mary Ann, 113 SHERWOOD: Wm., 113 r\llan, xvi, xvii sollass, Eliz., 138 Deborah, xvi, xvii SOMERFORD KEYNES (Wilts., now Geo., xvi, xvii Glos.), 368 Hester, xvi SOMERSET ship, Wm., 375 Bath, xvi, 60, 128, 183, 225, 342, shipton, 134, 414 350. 361, 374» 5O4» 508, 560, 583, SHIPTON OLIFFE 587 Lower Hampden in, 460 Bridgwater, 183 shotton, Mary ,428 Bruton, 629 SHROPSHIRE Claverton, 264 Atcham, 43 Corsley (?Corsley, Wilts.), 103 Baschurch ('Bastchurch, Flint’), 32 Enmore, 448 Bishop’s Castle, 296 Frome, 136, 146, 504, 550 Condover, 293 Honeygate, 353 Ludlow, 306 Nunney, 608 Newport, 180 Pitminstcr, 536 Shrewsbury, 170, 199, 254 Shepton Mallet, 259, 508, 651 Westbury, 36 Walcot (now in Bath), 128, 585 SHURDINGTON, 3, 63, I73, 229, 34°» 424 Wraxall, 531 SHURMER, Ann, 628 Wycombe Trail, 350 SIDDINGTON ST. MARY, 264 somery, Jas., 157 SIDE, See SYDE SOUTHAM, IO, 25, 51, 72, 126, 185, 275, SIMMONDS, Jn., I73 280, 313, 331, 394, 413, 417, 526 SIMMONS*. SOUTHROP, 205 Ben., 566 Stamford Farm in, 389 Jane, 566 spencer: sim(m)s (syms): Eliz., 152 Ann, 318 Sarah Minchin, 502 Harriet, 109 spilsbury, Ann, 340 Hen., 532 spragg: Wm., 532 Ann, 492 SKINNER, Jn., 135 Mary, 492 slater, Sarah, 483 sprigg(s), Wm., 220, 223 sly, Geo., 134, 228 STAFFORD, Joseph, 366 smith: STAFFORDSHIRE Ann, 304, 585 Kingswinford, 117, 118, 129 Chas., 389 Kinver (‘Worcs.’), 621 Edward, 82 Lichfield, 221 Eliz., 322 Wolverhampton, 158 IO9 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
stagg: stroud, Susan, 458 Ann, 637 STUBBS, Wm., 92 'Grveney', 637 SUDELEY, 307, 378 Jas., xx, 637 SUDELEY TENEMENTS, 9 Mrs. (Cheltenham), 265 SUFFOLK staight, Watkin 526, 646 Newmarket, 398 staite, Jas., 210 summers: STANDISH, 83, 35I Chas., 643 STANLEY PONTLARGE, 257 Jn., 642, 643 STANLEY, ThOS., 157 Louisa, 643 stansby, Revd. Wm., 273 Neville, 564 STANTON, 24 surman: STANWAY, 638 Jn.,645 STAPLETON, 602 Mary, 645 starr, Herod, 557 Mr. (Swindon, Glos.), 379 statum, Mr. (Dorchester, Oxon.), 236 Rich., 645 staunton (Worcs., now Glos.), 439, Sarah, 645 502 Thos., 645 staunton (near Coleford), 367, 396 SUSSEX STAVERTON, 23, 90, 92, 185, 234, 444 Brighton, 496 STENSHAM (?STRENSHAM, WorCS.), 5II Chichester, 261 STEPHENS: Midhurst, 261 Eliza, 405 swain: A Mary, 179 Julia, 316 Sarah, 139 Robt., 316 sterry: swallow, Jn., 142 Eliza, 407 swell, Upper, 11, 638 Hannah, 407 SWINDON (Glos.), 79, 379, 379a, 439# Mary, 407 444, 446, 493, 580, 628, 652 Wm., 407 SYDE, 295 stewart: Jane, 363 talbott, Joseph, 135 Jn.,363 Mary Ann, 421a TALE, Thos., 4 stock,Job,402 tanner: STOCKING-WEAVERS, XX, 22, 41, 48 Ann, 198 STOKE ORCHARD, 24, 178, I95, 39I, David, 620 422,492, 566 Levi, 620 stokes, Jn., 450 Maria, 620 stone: Sam., 620 Emily, 615 tarling: Geo., 615 Jas., 58 Jane, 615 Sarah, 485 Thos., 615 taylor: STONEHOUSE, 302, 630, 65I Eliz., 370 STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, 364, 379, 578 Jonathan,279, 468 STRANGLAND, Lady, 374 Mr. (Birmingham), 510 STRATFORD: Phoebe, xix, 279, 468 Francis Paul, J.P., xxii, xxiii Rich., 255, 391 Wm., 632 Thos., 279 terry stringer, Anthony, 236 , Wm., 639 strong: tetbury, 350, 558, 583 Mary, 375 TEWKESBURY, 22, 38, 121, I94, 219, Robt., 375 279,442,468,512 Wm., 375 Cross Keys Inn, 461 stroud, 7b, 16, 33, 137, 213, 227, Park, 10 310, 351, 472, 497 Southwick in, to Bowbridge in, 288 Stocking Manufactory, 42 Golden Heart Inn, 16 THOMAS, Jn., 159 110 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826 thornbury, 387 UPTON, 375 Cowl Hill in, 649 UPTON ST. LEONARDS, I7I, 385, 392, Sheperdinc in, 649 427, 580, 586 THORNHILL, Eliz., 558 thorp: VAGRANCY, xiv, xix, 82, 93, 138, 24O, Horatio, 221 649 Jane, 221 VERRINDER, Wm., 623 Job, 221 vibort, Colonel, 536 Jn., 221 vinant, Sam., xiv n. Robt., 221 VINCENT: Susannah,221 Hen., 353 TIDENHAM, Xxii Lady, 326 TILTON: Ann, 582 Eliz., 582 wade: Geo., 582 Eleanor, 448 Jane (?James), 582 Margt., 448 Lucy, 582 Sarah,448 Sarah,582 Wm., 448 Thos., xxi, 582 WAGE RATES, xix TIRLEY,280 walker: TODDINGTON, io8 Daniel, 278 TODENHAM, 475 General, 635 tooth, Thos., 510 Mary, 554, 579 townsend, Revd. Robt. L., J.P., Rich., 553 xxii wall: trapp, Sam., 126 Ann, 522 TREDINGTON, 21, 51, 85, 386, 39I, 506 Mr. (Moccas, Hcrefs.), 528 trinder: walton, Rev. Mr., 203 Maria, 450 ward: Wm., 450 Ann, 518 troughton: Eliz., 506 Jn., 185 Nancy, 506 Thos., 195 Rich. Reeves, 506 trundell, Rich., xx, 320 Wm., 506 trye, Hen. Norwood, J.P., xxii, warder, Francis, 103 xxiii warringale (?), Mary Ann, 635 tuffley, Hen., 320 . WARWICKSHIRE turner: Avron, 613 David, 52 Barnard, 475 Jas., 436 Birmingham, 43, 132, 153, 198, Joanna,341 214, 215, 510 Job, 13 Brailes, 528 Priscilla, 438 Coventry, 86, 105, 452 Rich., 398 Cumbrook, 525 tustin: Kin warton, 327 Eliz., 650 Leamington Priors, 459 Jn.,650 Shipston-on-Stour, 462, 594 twig, Abigail, 201 Stoke, 452 TWIG WORTH, 292 Stratford-on-Avon, 538, 594 TWYNING, 8, 425, 476, 575 Sutton Coldfield, 510 tyler: Tam worth, 562 Esther, 365 Warwick, 86 Thos., 365 WASHBOURNE, LIT. (Worcs., now Glos.), 506 UCKINGTON, 94, IO4, 216, 226, 416, wastfield, Rich.,xvii 446,499 WATKINS: Underhill, Matilda, 474 Eliz., 163 underwood, Jane, 426 Mary, 33 III CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
watts: WHITTINGTON, XXii, 91, 204, 325, 33I, Ann, 590 336,4O3.4O4.4i7» 544 Geo., xvii WICKSEY, Wm., 184 Jas., 651 WIGHT, ISLE OF, 459 Jn.,651 WIGLEY, Wm., 293 Pamela, 651 wilcox, Zachariah, 598 Thos., xx, 77 wilkes: wavell, Jane, 346 Ann, 321 WEBB, Jas., 371 Colonel, 342 WEEK, Rich., 156 Emma, 591 welch: Thos., 160 Caroline, 12, 17a, 17b, 242, 591 wilkins: Edward, 17b /Xnn, 422 Eliz., 17b Phoebe, 364 Mary Ann, 591 williams: weller: Ben., xix, 648 Jn.,334 Edward, xxi, 254, 342 Mary, 334, 336, 337 Eliz., 354 Wm., 334, 336 Geo., 354 well(e)s: Hannah, 275 Ben., 397b Jas., 354 Silas, 369 Julius, 648 Mr. (Worcester), 30a Mary, xxi, 496 Thos., J.P., xxii Mary Ann, 648 Wellington, Ann, 326 Rich., 569 WESTALL, Eliz., 618 Robt., 154 WESTBURY, 45, 463, 636 Sophia, 648 willis: WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN, 40, 425 Caroline, 498 Leigh in, 75 Eliz., 498 WESTCOTE, 609 Geo., 30a, 30b west indies (Santa Cruz), 342 Jn.,297, 355, 498 wetherstone, Edward, xxi, 267 Joseph, 498 WHADDON, IOI Mary, 355 WHALLEY, Jn., 226 Mary Ann, 498 WHARTON: Wm., 498 Geo., 516 wills, Thos., 260 Mary, 516 willson, Sir Alex., J.P., xxii, xxiii Miriam, 516 Wilmot, Eliz., 140 WHEATENHURST, alias WHITMINSTER, Wilson, Maria, 128 628 WILTSHIRE wheeler: Ashton,18 Ann, 192 Bradford, 585 Hen., 517 Castle Eaton, 162 Peter, 131 Corsley, see somerset Thos., 517 Cricklade, 6, 385, 540, 564, 622 Wm., 146 Dauntsey, 648 WHERRETT, Wm., 98 Devizes, 322, 380, 601 white: ‘Haisey’, perhaps misread for Esther, 568 Maisey, i.e. Marston Meysey, 95,234 Hannah, 638 Hannington Wick, 610 Wm., 370, 638 Hinton, Lit., 420 WHITFIELD, 275 Malmesbury, 64, 589 WHITHORNE, Rich., 294 Manton, 540 whiting: Mincty, 192 Edith, 430 Oaksey, 288 Jas., 430 Rodburn ‘China’ (Cheney), 540 WHITMINSTER, See WHEATENHURST Sherston, xvi WHITMORE, Jn., 439 Shipton Mile, 228 112 CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS, 1815-1826
Wiltshire, continued Worcestershire, continued. Somerford, Lit., 582 Compton, Lit., 386 Staunton, 95 Cow Honcybourne, 525 Swindon, 564 Droitwich, 355 Trowbridge, 6, 20, 480 Dudley, 105 Westbury, xvi, 561 Eldcrsfield, 552 Wilton, 80 Evesham, 168, 590 WILTS. & BERKS. CANAL, 82 Hallow, 427 winchcomb, 73, 75, 84, 113, 124, 181, Hampton, Gt., 390 183, 188, 210, 307, 378, 428, 439, Hanley, 155 501, 520, 521, 537, 542, 568, 593, Hartlebury, 109 6l I ‘Ilfracombe’, 189 Cockbury in, 24 Kcmcrton, 147, 151, 226 Greet in, 360 Kcmpsford (perhaps Kempsey, or Postlip in, see postlip Kempsford, Glos.), 592 WINTERBOURNE, 603 Kidderminster, 109, 135, 365, 384, withington, 5, 9, 70, 267, 497 629 Foxcotein, 263, 403 Knightwick, 47 WITTS, Jn., 51, 413 Leigh Sinton (‘Lye’), 138 Malvern, Gt., 178, 617 wolvin, Hannah, 501 Martley, 96 wood: Old Swinford, 301 Eliz., 76, 497 Pendock, 139 Joshua,207 Pershore, 201, 327, 343 Maria, 315 Powick, 425 Mary, 76 Ripple, 42, 51, 650 Rich., 76 Strensham, 257, 294, 313, 511, 549 Susanna, 7a Upton Snodsbury, Colestone in, 427 Thos., 7b, 497 Upton-on-Scvern, 274, 312, 355 Wm., 315 399.527. 562 woodford, Sarah, 533 Welbon, 274 WOODMANCOTE, 523, 584 Worcester, 30a, 59, 78, 167, 199, WOODWARD, Eliz., 495 203, 208, 214, 215, 245, 308, 309 woolford: WORKHOUSES, 80, 259, 479, 532, 559 Jn.,95, 234 wormington: Sarah,215 Sarah, 427 WOOLSTONE, 478 Thos., 427 WORCESTERSHIRE Wm. Thos., 427 Abbcrley, 587 wotton, 491 Barton, 201 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, 44O, 495 Beckford, 148, 402, 486a, 486b wotton vill (Wotton St. Mary, Bengeworth, 138 Gloucester), 233, 292, 393, 441, 465 Bewdley, Ripsford in, 365 Wynne, Revd. Mr., 264 Bishampton, 327 Brcdon, 8, 26, 27, 151, 369 yate, xvi Bredons Hardwicke, 652 YEATES, Geo., 615 Broadwas ('Broadwest’), 47 YEEND, Chas., 566 Bromsgrove, 618 YORKSHIRE Birlingham (‘Burlingham’), 381 Baldshire Hall, 496 Burlington, 391 Hull, 316 Castlemorton, 30a, 273, 322, 399 ‘School Court’ (?Sculcoates), 328 Church Lcnch, Sheriffs Lench in, Sheffield, 2, 246 450 Wetwang, 496 Claines, 199, 225, 381 young. Hen., 69
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