Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Robert & Ann Cooper
Settlement Certificate
from Braybrooke
22nd January
1749
Northampton Shire
To wit. WE Whose Names are here under written John Darling &
Thomas Hallioake Edward Spence & William Barrett Church-wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Braybrook in the County of
Northampton aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge Robert Cooper and Ann his wife to be our Inhabitants legally settled in the Parish of
Braybrook aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our Hands and
Seals this 22d Day of January in the 22d Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith;
and in the Year of our Lord 1749
Attested by
John X
Cooper his
mark
John Cooper
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John Darling
Thomas Holyoake
Churchwardens |
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Edward Spence
William Barrat
Overseers
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To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish
of Desborough in the County of Northampton or to any,
or either of them.
WE whose Names are hereunto subscribed, two of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Northampton aforesaid, do allow of the above-written
Certificate. And we do also certify, That John Cooper the Witness who attested the Execution of the said Certificate, has made Oath before us,
That he did see the Church-wardens and
Overseers, whose Names and Seals are to the said Certificate
subscribed and set, severally sign and seal the said Certificate, and that
the Name & Mark of the said John Cooper & John Cooper whose names are
above subscribed as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing.
Dated the 3rd Day of February in the Year of our Lord 1749
Jeff Ekins
Wm Hanbury
Note: Robert's father John also had a settlement certificate from Braybrook
in 1715/16. John junior (Robert's younger brother) and his family were ordered
to be removed from Desborough to Braybrook in 1762
Robert's certificate was entered on a printed form.
Desborough is less than 3 miles east south east of Braybrook