Desborough Study : Settlement Records
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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