Desborough Study : Settlement Records
William Caris jnr & Elizabeth
Settlement Certificate
from Tur Langton in Leicestershire
7th January
1740/41
County of Leicester
To the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Desborough
in the County of Northampton WE Thomas Lowen William Coleman & William
Carter of Turlangton in the County of Leicester Being the Church-wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Turlangton in the County of Leicester
aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge William Caris Junior and Elizabeth
his wife to be our Inhabitants legally settled in the Parish of Turlangton
in the county of Leicester aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our Hands and Seals, this Seventh Day of January in the fourteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George ye Second by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. And in the
Year of our Lord 1740.1.
Attested by us
Robt Coleman
Tho Watts Juner
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Churchwarden
Thomas Lewin
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Overseers of the poor
Will Colman
William Carter |
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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 Leicester aforesaid, do allow of the above-written
Certificate. And we do also certify that Robt Coleman one of the Witnesses
who attested the Execution of the said Certificate, hath 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 Names of the said Robt Coleman and Thomas Watts whose names are
above-subscribed, as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing.
Dated the eighth Day of January in the Year of our Lord 1740/1
Attqibrige [?]
Thos Palmer |
Note: this Certificate was entered on a printed form
Desborough is about 10 miles south-east of Tur Langton