Desborough Study : Settlement Records
John & Mary Webster
Settlement Certificate
from Stoke Albany
20th April
1768
Northamptonshire
To wit. WE John Brannston Thomas Scott and
Thomas Young Church-Wardens
and Overseer of the Poor of the Parish of Stoke Albany in the County
of Northampton aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge John
Webster and Mary his wife and Elizabeth their Daughter to be Our Inhabitants legally settled
in the Parish of Stoke Albany aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have
hereunto set our Hands and Seals this 20th Day of Aprill in
the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third by the
Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; and in the Year of
our Lord 1768.
Attested by us
Ellis X Ayre his mark
Thos Webster
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John Branson
Thomas Scott
Church Wardens
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Thos Young
Overseer
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To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Desborough in the said 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 Thomas Webster one of the Witnesses who attested the
Execution of the said Certificate, has made Oath before us, That
he did see the Church-Warden and Overseers whose Names and
Seals are to the said Certificate subscribed and set, severally
sign and seal the said Certificate, and that the Names of the said
Thomas Webster and the mark of Ellis Ayre whose Names are subscribed as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing. Dated the
26th
Day of April in the Year of our Lord 1768.
Thos Cecill Maunsell
B Bridges
Note: Certificate was entered on a printed form
Desborough is about 3 miles south of Stoke Albany