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Settlement Documents for Isabella Perrin
Document 1
Removal Order (Isabella Perrin) 29th October 1859
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish of Saint James, within the Liberty of Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, and within the Metropolitan Police District, and to
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Roche in the County of Cornwall and to each and every of
them
Whereas Complaint hath been made unto me, Peregrine Bingham
Esquire, one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for
the City and Liberty of Westminster and County of Middlesex, a
Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, sitting at the Police
Court in Great Marlborough Street, in the Parish of Saint James,
Westminster, within the Metropolitan Police District, by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint James
within the said City, Liberty, County and District: That
Isabella Perrin aged about 30 years Widow, and her four lawful children
namely John Thomas aged about 8 years, Agnes Amelia aged about 6 years,
Thomas Mears aged about 4 years and Isabella aged nearly 2 years have
come to inhabit in the said Parish of Saint James, not having obtained
any legal Settlement there, nor having resided in the said Parish of
Saint James for five years next before the application for this warrant
and all now inhabiting therein, endeavouring
to settle contrary to law, and have become and
are now actually chargeable thereto, and
receiving relief therefrom, which relief is not made necessary by
sickness or accident, I, the said Magistrate, upon Examination of the
Premises upon Oath, and other Circumstances, do adjudge the same to be
true, and do also adjudge the Place of the last legal settlement of the
said Isabella Perrin and her said four children
to be in the Parish of Roche in the County or Cornwall
These are therefore, in Her Majesty’s Name, to require you, the said
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint
James, on sight hereof, to remove and convey the said
Isabella Perrin and her said four children from and out of
your said Parish of Saint James, to the said Parish of Roche
and them deliver unto the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor there, or some or one of them, together with this
my Order, or a true copy thereof, who are hereby required to receive and
provide for them according to Law. Given under
my Hand and Seal, at the Police Court aforesaid, this twenty
ninth day of October One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty nine
(signed & sealed) P. Bingham (LS)
N.B. Printed form with handwritten
insertions, shown in bold italics
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/12
Document 2
Notice of Removal (Isabella Perrin) 29th October 1859
Parish of SAINT JAMES, within the Liberty of
WESTMINSTER, in the County of MIDDLESEX, and
within the Metropolitan Police District
As to the Removal of Isabella Perrin . .
. . . and her four lawful children hereinafter named
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Roche in the County of Cornwall
We, the undersigned, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Saint James, within the Liberty of Westminster, and within the
Metropolitan Police District, do hereby give you, and every of you,
Notice that the above-named Isabella Perrin and her said
four children at present residing at No. 3
Broad Street, Saint James have
come to inhabit in the said Parish of Saint James, not having obtained
any legal settlement there, nor having resided in the said Parish of
Saint James for five years next before the application for the warrant
for their removal, to the place of
their legal settlement, and are
now inhabiting therein, endeavouring to settle contrary to law, and
have become and are
now actually chargeable thereto, and receiving relief from the Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint James, out of the Parish Funds,
in respect of relief not made necessary by sickness or accident and that
an Order of Peregrine Bingham Esquire, one of
Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the City and
Liberty of Westminster, and County of Middlesex, a Magistrate of the
Police Courts of the Metropolis, sitting at the Police Court in Great
Marlborough Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, within
the Metropolitan Police District, has been obtained for
their removal to your said Parish of Roche
as their last place of legal settlement, a
counterpart of which order is herewith sent, accompanied by the
following statement in writing under our hands, setting forth the
grounds of such Removal, including the particulars of the settlement or
settlements relied upon in support thereof, that is to say, the grounds
of such Removal are, the complaint made by us unto the said Justice,
granting the said Warrant or Order of Removal, that the said
Isabella Perrin and her said four children have come
to inhabit in the said Parish of Saint James, not having obtained any
legal settlement there, nor having resided in the said Parish of Saint
James for five years next before the application for such Warrant, and
are now inhabiting therein, endeavouring to
settle contrary to law, and have become and
are now actually chargeable thereto and
receiving relief therefrom in respect of relief not made necessary by
sickness or accident. And the particulars of the settlement or
settlements relied upon in support thereof are,
That the said Isabella Perrin is the Widow of Thomas Perrin
who died on the 15th July 1858 and to whom as Isabella Mears she was
married in the Parish Church of Saint Martin in the Fields in Middlesex
on the 2nd November 1847 and by such Marriage hath lawful issue four
children namely John Thomas born 19th July 1851, Agnes Amelia born 1st
October 1853, Thomas Mears born 16th September 1855 and Isabella born
11th December 1857.
That the said Thomas Perrin was born in Ireland about December 1825 of
unsettled Irish Parents and never acquired a Settlement for himself in
England and that the said Isabella Perrin is the daughter of John Doyle
Mears and Agnes his wife who were lawfully married in the Parish Church
of Charles, Plymouth in Devon on the 12th July 1820, and was born on the
23rd September 1829 in the Marine Barracks, Plymouth, and has never
acquired a Settlement for herself subsequent thereto.
That the said John Doyle Mears was also born in Ireland, and never
acquired a Settlement in England previous to the Marriage of his said
daughter.
That the said Agnes Mears was married to James Postlethwaite her late
husband in Saint Andrew’s Church Plymouth Devon on the 29th May 1814,
and that the said James Postlethwaite was legally settled in your said
Parish of Roche, his Father Richard Postlethwaite being the Rector
thereof.
That by an Order bearing date the 9th September 1818 under the hands and
seals of John Hawker and Edmund Lockyer Esquire, Two of His Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Devon, the said Agnes
Postlethwaite, and her two lawful children Gertrude Amelia Agnes then
aged 3 years, and Richard Appleby Harrison then aged nearly 2 years were
removed and conveyed from and out of the Parish of East Stonehouse in
the County of Devon (to which Parish they were then legally chargeable)
to your said Parish of Roche as the place of their last legal
Settlement, against which Order and removal no Appeal was made, and they
were afterwards relieved by the Overseers of your said Parish.
That the said Agnes Mears was born in your said Parish about the year
1780.
And we do hereby further give you, and every of you, Notice, that unless
you appeal against the said Order of Removal, and duly serve Notice of
such Appeal within twenty-one days after this notice of chargeability
and statement of grounds for Removal shall have been sent to you, or if,
within such period of twenty-one days, you shall apply for a copy of the
Depositions on which the said Order of Removal has been made, to
Mr Leadley of the Police Court, Great Marlborough Street
Clerk to the Justice who made the said Order, then, within a further
period of fourteen days after the sending of such copy, the said Paupers
will be removed to your said Parish, in pursuance of the said Order.
Given under our Hands this twenty ninth day of
October 1859
(signed) C.
Harrison
(signed) Edward Matthews
(signed) Robt. D. Bose
(signed) Henry Morcel |
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Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish of Saint James |
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N.B. Printed form with handwritten
insertions, shown in bold italics
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/9
Document 3
Marriage Register Extract – 15th November 1859
No. 757 (Page 253)
It appears by the Register of Marriages kept for the Parish of CHARLES,
in the Borough of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, that
John D. Mears, of the Marines, a Bachelor and Agnes Postlethwaite, of
this Parish, Spinster were married
On the Twelfth day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
Eight
Hundred and Twenty
Witness my hand, this 15 day of Novr 1859
(signed) R. Ivens Parish Clerk
N.B. Printed form with handwritten
insertions, shown in bold italics
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/15
Document 4
Bill relating to the Removal of Isabella Perrin
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Mr Robins (Roche)
To Rodd & Son
Re Perrin a Pauper |
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1859
11th. Nov |
Attending at the Workhouse searching for Order
of Removal of Agnes Postlethwaite |
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6. 8 |
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Making copy of same - 16 fo |
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8. 0 |
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14. 8 |
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By cash
Rodd & Son
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N.B. Handwritten document
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/14
Document 5
Bill from Nicholas Robins re Isabella Perrin
1859
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The Parishioners of Roche |
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To Nich. Robins Dr
Respecting settlement of Isabella Perrin |
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Expenses to Stonehouse to obtain register
of Marriage of her Parents
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St Austell with Overseer to consult Mr Julian )
in the above case ) 6 0 |
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Decr 8th settled (signed) Nich Robins
N.B. Handwritten document
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref:
198/13/3/16
Contributed by John Evans
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