Desborough Study : Settlement Records
William Langley
Settlement Examination
21st November 1775
Northamptonshire
to wit
The Examination of William Langley now in the Parish of
Desboroug touching his last legal Settlement taken on Oath
before me one of his Majestys Justices of peace for the said
County the 21st Day of November 1775
who saith that he was born at Okenham in the county of Berks
where his Parents were Duly Settled that about the year 1755 he
went into his Majestys Service and continued in it about 5
years when he was Discharged for being Wounded since which time
he has done nothing to gain a Settlement in any place but that
as he believes his legal Settlement now is in the said Parish of Oakenham where he was born and that yesterday he Intermarried
with Elizabeth his Present Wife now resident at Desborough
aforesaid and further saith not
William Langley X his Mark
Taken signd and Sworn the Day
and Year above written before me
J Hill
Notes:
The date when William became a soldier
appears to have been originally
written as 1775 and overwritten as 1755.
His length of service is unclear: it
may be 15 or 5 years with a blob of ink on the tail of the '5' (see the
beginning of the central line on the image on the right)