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Settlement Examinations – James Every
Beswarick baptised 13 Aug 1809 Lostwithiel and his
children Mary Bennett bap 9 May 1835, Elizabeth
(apparently also baptised Mary) 22 Jan 1837 and James
born c. 1842. Wife Elizabeth Bennet died in 1846
probably in childbirth of a daughter Susan. James
remarried in 1850 to Ann Dunstone and I think times must
have been better for him.
From the examination of James Beswarick 7 Sep 1847
regarding his last place of legal settlement and for
Mary aged about 13, Elizabeth aged about 12 and James
aged about 6.
"I am now about 38 years old and am residing in the
Saint Austell Union Workhouse in the County of Cornwall.
I was married at the church in the Borough of
Lostwithiel in the County of Cornwall about 14 years ago
to my late wife whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bennet.
I have had by her 7 children all born in lawful wedlock
three of whom are now residing in the said Union
Workhouse with me viz. Mary aged about 13 years,
Elizabeth aged about 12 years and James aged about 6
years. I first came into the said parish of Saint
Austell to reside 4 years ago last July to August and
upon my first coming into the said parish resided in the
house which I rented of Mrs Bennett situate in Priory
Row in the said parish of St Austell. I have never done
any act to gain a settlement in my own right and am now
together with my said three children actually chargeable
to and receiving relief from the said parish of St
Austell my said relief is not made necessary by sickness
or accident. I have not resided in the said parish of St
Austell for 5 years next before this my examination."
Here is the settlement testimony from James's father
Thomas Beswarrick made the same day 7 Sep 1847.
"I am about 66 years old and was born in the Borough of
Lostwithiel in the County of Cornwall. When I was about
18 years old I was bound an apprentice by Covenant
Indenture duly stamped which I now produce and which
bears date the twenty ninth day of May 1798 to my father
Thomas Beswarrick to learn the business of a woolcomber
and stapler for the term of 7 years thence next
following. The names Thos. Beswarrick jnr and Thos.
Beswarrick snr set opposite to the seale at the foot of
the same indenture as a witness to the execution thereof
is the proper handwriting of James Bennicke late of
Liskeard in the County of Cornwall, now deceased, who
set his name thereto in my presence. At the time I was
bound my said father was working in the Borough of
Liskeard in the County of Cornwall and continued to
reside there for about 2 years after I was bound. At the
end of that time (work being short in Liskeard) my said
father took me to the parish of Lostwithiel in the said
Borough of Lostwithiel and agreed with a Mr John
Westlake who resided in a street then called Market
Street but now called Queen Street in the said parish of
Lostwithiel in the said Borough of Lostwithiel that I
should work with him but no agreement was made as to
time. My mother at this time went to the said Parish of
Lostwithiel in the said Borough of Lostwithiel with me
and remained there (with the exception of the slight
intervals when she would go up to Liskeard to my father)
about 2 years in a house belonging to my father situate
in Fore Street in the said parish of Lostwithiel in the
said Borough of Lostwithiel. During the whole 2 years I
resided and slept in the same dwelling house with her
and I used sometimes to take my wages home to her
Saturday evenings. About 2 years before my term of
apprenticeship expired I got married to my present wife
whose maiden name was Mary Godfrey at the Parish church
in the Borough of Liskeard aforesaid in the year 1803.
Shortly before I got married my mother left the said
Parish of Lostwithiel in the said Borough of Lostwithiel
and soon after her departure I took a house of Thomas
Kneebone in the said street then called Market Street
but now called Queen Street and I continued to reside in
that house until my apprenticeship expired and during
the whole of such last mentioned period and the last
night of my apprenticeship slept in the same house. I
have had by my said wife Mary 8 children, James now
present is one of them. He is about 38 years old and
born in the said house in the said parish of Lostwithiel
in the Borough of Lostwithiel then called Market Street
but now called Queen Street which I rented of Thomas
Kneebone as aforesaid. He never to my knowledge did any
act to gain a settlement in his own right."
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