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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: puzzled
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:33:26 +0000
References: <a0o3r8$umn$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>


In article <a0o3r8$umn$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, JACKs
<> writes
>Happy New Year,
>
>Spent two hours consulting the 1841 census in the Archives place in
>Newcastle with no luck. Whilst hovering around a shelf with parish indexes I
>happened to pick up the index to the Quarter Sessions of 1836. In the
>second list I looked at... there was the entire family I was
>researching......Joseph and Isabella Suggett and their three children.
>
>What I don't understand is what is going on in the court. Their names appear
>under Orders. It is long winded and refers to a date the previous september.
>Joseph has deserted the family and the word 'settlement' is mentioned. They
>have appealed against an order of the Mayor and another person, a justice
>of the Peace of removal of the family from St Andrews to All Saints . The
>children's ages are given. The appeal is entered and lodged and held over
>until the next session..

A man had one parish in which he was entitled to poor relief - this was
his settlement parish, All Saints in this case. . His wife and family
took their settlement from he. Joseph had run for it, leaving the family
desitute, and in St Andrews, where he was not settled. The authorities
got an order from the magistrates (the Mayor sitting as chaiurman ex
officio) to remove the family to Saints. All Saints presumably appealed
and said Joseph was not one of theirs/ This tended to be an automatic
reaction if there was half a hope of shifting the financial burden. The
appeal would be investigated and heard at the next session in 3 months
time.
However, it sounds as if they realised it would not work - or maybe
Joseph came home, which he needed to do if he was not to be imprisoned
for leaving his family chargeable. If he did, and could provide for
them, the case would be dropped - until next time.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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