Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Thomas & Elizabeth
Cooke
Settlement Certificate
from Uppingham, Rutland
29 March
1732
Rold fs
To the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of Desborow in the County of
Northton or Elsewhere Wee John Treadwell & John Clarke Churchwardens and
Thomas Stafford & James Nutt Overseers of the Poor of the Pish of Uppingham
in the County of Rutland aforesd Do hereby own & acknowledge
Thomas Cooke & Elizabeth his Wife to be Inhabitants Legally Setled in the
Pish of Uppingham aforesd In Witness where of wee have hereunto
Sett our Hands and Seales the 29th day of March Anno Dni 1732.
John Treadwell John Clarke
Witnesses to the Signing hereof
Wm Chapman
John Cooke
Ambs How | |
Thos Stafford
James Nutt
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Wee whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Justices of the Peace for the
County of Rutland aforesd Do hereby allow of the Certificate
above written And do also Certify that Ambrose How one of the Witnesses to
this Certificate made Oath this day before us that the Several & respective
Churchwardens & Overseers did Severally & respectively Subscribe their
Names to & Seal this Certificate before him & that his own & the other
Witnesses Names are of their own Hand Writing as Witness our Hands the 13th
day of April Anno Dni 1732
J Wingfeild
Lancelot Dawes
Desborough is about 13.5 miles south-south-west of Uppingham