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Settlement Document for George & Samuel Hockaday
Removal Order (George & Samuel Hockaday) 7th January
1862
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish of Lawhitton
in the County of Cornwall and to the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of
Roche in the County of Cornwall
and to each and every of them
Whereas complaint hath been made unto us, whose Names are hereunto set
and Seals affixed, being Two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County (one whereof being of
the Quorum) by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
parish of Roche
That George Hockaday aged about 14 years and Samuel Hockaday
aged about 12 years have come to inhabit, and
are now inhabiting in the said parish
of Roche not having resided in the said
parish for five years next before the said
Application and Complaint and not having gained a legal settlement
there, nor having produced any Certificate acknowledging
them to be settled elsewhere, and that they
are now actually chargeable to the same parish
of Roche and are now receiving Relief
therefrom, and that the Parish of
Lawhitton is the place of their last Legal Settlement:
We, the said Justices, upon due proof thereof as well by the Examination
of Witnesses, to wit, of George Hockaday, Samuel Butler,
Richard Colgrave and George Brandon upon Oath, as
otherwise, and upon due consideration of the Premises, do adjudge the
same to be true, and that the place of the last legal Settlement of the
said George Hockaday and Samuel Hockaday is in
the said Parish of Lawhitton
in the said County of Cornwall
These are therefore, in Her Majesty’s Name, to require and Order you the
said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Roche or some or one
of you, or some proper person or persons to be employed by you, at such
time and in such manner as by Law is provided and directed in that
behalf, to remove and convey the said George Hockaday and
Samuel Hockaday from and out of your said
Parish of Roche to the said
Parish of Lawhitton
and them deliver, together with this our
Order, or a Duplicate or true Copy thereof, unto the Overseers of the
Poor there, or one of them, who are hereby required to receive and
provide for them according to Law.
Given under our Hands and Seals, at the parish of Saint
Austell in the said County the
seventh day of January
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty
two
(signed & sealed) Thos. Hext
(signed & sealed) R.M.E. Lakes
(Endorsed on the back of the Removal Order)
Roche to Lawhitton
Re Hockaday Paupers
Order of Removal
14 February 1862 (3 p.m.)
Put duplicate hereof into the post office this day addressed as follows
viz:
"To the Churchws. & Overseers of the poor of the parish of Lawhitton Nr.
Launceston
(signed) Thomas Rowse
(Also endorsed on the rear)
Delivered the within named Paupers George and Samuel Hockaday to Mr John
Jackman, Overseer, and at the same time delivered to him a copy of this
Order and shew’d to him this the original this Tenth day of March 1862
(signed) Philip Tonkin
Overseer of the Poor of the Parish of Roche
N.B. Printed form with handwritten
insertions, shown in bold italic
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/2/3
Contributed by John Evans
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