Place |
Period |
Approx dates |
Notes |
Whythyam, Cornwall |
from birth to age10. |
1753- |
This is Gwithian Cornwall |
Francis HOCKIN Camborne |
3 x 2 yrs to age 16 |
1763 - |
|
Father's home in Gwithian |
for 10wks |
1769 |
|
Stamping Mill Camborne James Vivian |
2yrs |
1769- |
to about 18 lived in Gwithian with Father |
Mine in Camborne |
2yrs |
1772- |
to about 20 |
With father in Camborne |
4yrs |
1774- |
to about 24 |
Father died so he kept house with sister |
2 or 3yrs |
1778- |
to about 27 |
With brother Camborne |
? |
1781 1782 |
to about 28 |
Beer Ferris, Devon |
2yrs 7mnths |
1782- |
to about 31 |
Working in the mine some times by the month and other times by the job but was always free at any month's end | |||
Lidford mine |
for 11 months |
1785- |
to about 32 |
Then “worked at different mines but never done any act to gain any settlement” |
1785- |
to about 38 |
This is John RULE [4379] baptised 9 Sep 1753 Gwithian son of John and Catherine nee BRYANT.
John and his wife Ann already had three children at the time of his examination. He returned to Camborne where another three children were born and then on to Gwinear where his last two children were born.
Removal Orders
Mary DIAMOND from Beaford, Devon to Ring Ash (Ashreigney) 1764 .We have not yet been able to identify this Mary.
Robert FOLLAND [2384] with his wife Joan nee BLACKMORE and four children were to be removed from Roborough the birth place of Joan and at least three of the four children back to Beaford his birth village. From the baptisms of their children they must have lived in Roborough for at least ten years. No reason for the removal has been found. The removal order was dated the fourteenth day of December in the nineteenth year of the reign of George the third, which was 1778. It was signed by H Stevens and Geo. Bickford Justices of the Peace for Devon.
Martin GILES [1056] and Jane nee HADLAND 13th November 1790 The order stated that “Martin Giles and his wife Jane have come to inhabit Hampton Gay not having gained legal settlement there nor produced and certificate, owing themselves to be settled elsewhere.....and are likely to become chargeable to the Parish”. Martin was examined under oath by two Justices ofthe Peace who concluded they did not have a legal settlement in Hampton Gay Oxfordshire and were removed to Hampton Poyle Oxfordshire
Thomas Giles was born in Hampton Poyle about 1791(calculated from the burial register Buried 13 Aug 1865 age 74.) so it was possibly his impendent arrival that lead to the removal order.
The thought of pregnant Jane being in the words of the order “conveyed from and out of the parish of Hampton Gay and delivered to the Church wardens and the Overseers of the Poor of Hampton Poyle” is sad and rather cruel. It is difficult to know why 22 year old Martin was not able to settle in Hampton Gay the village of his birth which had a flourishing paper mill at the time.We can only conclude that he had been working for some time in Hampton Poyle and will look for an apprentice bond for him. Being bound apprentice until the age of 21 in Hampton Poyle would explain why he was considered to be settled in that village. The Overseers favoured apprenticeships out of parish for this reason.
William SLEE [2561] The order dated 11 May 1831 was to the Church wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Merton and the same of the Parish of Great Torrington. It appears that Geore SLEE with his wife Grace and children Sally about 12, Ann about 10,William about 8, Priscilla about 6, Martha about 4 and Eliza about 2 had gone to Merton with out the right of settlement and had become chargeable to the Parish. The Justices having examined William under oath had concluded that they were the responsibility of Great Torrington and the Wardens of Merton were ordered to take the family to Great Torrington. This seems a strange discission as all the named children and three older daughters were baptised in Merton. What ever happened following the order a further daughter Catherine was baptised in MERTON 29 Jul 1832 and Ann and Priscilla later married there. They are in Merton for the 1841 &1851 censuses.
Notes on Settlement and Removal Orders.
Master |
Where |
pay /week |
period |
Age |
Parents |
|
|
until about 13 years old |
13 |
Mr John Blackmore |
of Roborough |
|
6 mnths |
|
Robert Paige |
of Saint Giles |
|
3 mnths |
|
Mr Francis Judd |
of Beaford |
1/- |
from Ladyday + 3days to the following Ladyday |
14 |
Same master |
|
1/4 |
to within 9 weeks of Ladyday |
15 |
Mr Samuel Wadland |
of Roborough |
10d |
to the following Ladyday |
16 |
father made bargain with master |
1/- |
Christmas |
| |
same master |
— driving horses |
1/6 |
to Ladyday |
17 |
|
|
1/6 |
14 weeks |
|
Mr Emanuel Lockaday |
of Roborough |
1/6 |
32 weeks |
|
ill Father’s House |
in Beaford |
|
8 weeks Ladyday + 10days |
18 |
Henry Passmore |
of St Giles |
1/6 |
Ladyday following |
19 |
Thomas Brinsmead |
of Saint Giles |
|
9 weeks |
|
Father’s House |
|
|
1 month |
|
Mr Judd |
of Saint Giles |
|
Midsummer Ladyday |
20 |
William DYMENT [134] 20 Nov 1826 Beaford, Devon
William took an oath before two Justices of the Peace Ingle H FORTESCUE and Peter GLUBB. He gave a detailed account of all his employment since he was 13.
This is summarised below
Married “and has done no other act where by to gain a settlement”
Ladyday is the 25th March the day traditionally when hirings were made
This is William baptised in Beaford 1 Sep 1803 son of Robert and Sarah nee SQUANCE
William remained in Beaford with his wife Charlotte nee PARR where they had 7 children between 1828 and 1849.
Both men show how they have been paid by the job or the month this was done so that they could not claim settlement which require working for one employer continuously for a year. Notice how John was in Lidford for 11 months just short of the required year. Both stress that the have not done any act to gain settlement.
William SLEE [2569] was examined on 27 March 1850 no removal order has been found but on the 1851 census his wife and two children appear to be in High Bickington. She was described as a pauper glover, but William is not with them.
William was brought by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of Merton for examination by the Justice of the peace John Henry FURSE. They said that he had come to live in Merton but had not lived there for five years previously nor had he produced a certificate which allowed him residence elsewhere. They said he was now changeable to the parish which indicates that he had no work or was unable to work. In his examination William said “I was born as I have heard and believe in The Parish of Merton where my parents lived and I am now about 29 years of age. I lived with my Father and learnt my trade from him as a Mason, until within the last 2 or 3 years my father furnished me with clothes and pocket money. I had no regular wages” On leaving his father’s house he lived with a William Talamy still within the parish of Merton but then he had two and a half years in Tormorham his son was born in Torquay in that region.from there he had returned to Merton. As yet we have not been able to find him since the examination nor his wife and children after the 1851 census.
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