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John & Martha Ward
Settlement Examination 12th Mar 1847
Examination of James Biggs

County of Northampton to wit.

The examination of James Biggs of Desborough in the said County touching the last place of legal Settlement of John Ward and Martha Ward his wife and his two children Elizabeth Ward and Matilda Ward taken on oath before us two of her Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for the said County this twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty seven upon a certain complaint upon oath made on behalf of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said parish of Desborough unto us that the said John Ward and Martha Ward his wife and their said two children have come to inhabit and are now inhabiting in the said parish not having resided in the said parish for five years next before the said Application and Complaint and not having gained a Settlement therein nor having produced any Certificate acknowledging them to be settled elsewhere and that the said John Ward and Martha Ward his wife and their said two children are now actually chargeable to the said parish.

The said James Biggs upon his oath saith that I produce a Certificate of Chargeability of John Ward and Martha Ward his wife and his child Elizabeth Ward - the Pauper John Ward is the person so named in such Certificate.

Taken Signed and Sworn the day
and year first above written
By and before us the Said
Justices
               Jas Biggs
W B Stopford
I Wetherall
 

 

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