Desborough Study : Settlement Records
John and Sarah
Tompkins
Removal Order 24th November 1815
from Northampton to Desborough
The Town of Northampton
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of All Saints in the said Town of Northampton in the
County of Northampton and to the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Desborough in
the said County of Northampton and to each and every of them.
UPON the complaint of the churchwardens and overseers of the
poor
of the Parish of All Saints aforesaid, in the said Town of
Northampton unto us, whose names are hereunto set, and seals affixed,
being two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the
said Town of Northampton and one of us of the quorum, that John
Tompkins, Weaver aged about thirty four years, Sarah his Wife and
their Child named Charles aged about three years have
come to inhabit in the said Parish of All Saints
not having gained a legal settlement there,
nor produced any
certificate, owning them to be settled elsewhere, and that
the said John Tompkins Sarah his Wife and their said Child are now
actually chargeable to
the Parish of All Saints aforesaid
We, the said Justices, upon due proof made thereof, as well upon
the examination of the said John Tompkins upon oath, as otherwise,
and likewise upon due consideration had of the premises, do adjudge
the same to be true; and we do likewise adjudge, that the lawful
settlement of them the said John Tompkins, Sarah his Wife and their
said Child is in
the said Parish of Desborough in the said County of Northampton
We do therefore require you the said churchwardens and overseers
of the poor of the said Parish of All Saints or some, or one of you,
to convey the said John Tompkins Sarah his Wife and their said Child from and out
of your said Parish of All Saints to the said Parish of Desborough and
them to deliver to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor
there, or to some, or one of them, together with this our order, or
a true copy thereof; and we do also hereby require you the said
churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said Parish of
Desborough to receive and provide for them as inhabitants of your said
Parish. Given under our hands and seals the twenty fourth day of
November in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiteen.
G Osborn
Charles Freeman
The removal order was entered on a printed form.