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Settlement Documents for Agnes Postlethwaite & Children
Document 1
Copy Removal Order (Agnes Postlethwaite) 9th September
1818
Devon to Wit. To the Churchwardens and Overseers of
the Poor of the Parish of East Stonehouse in the County of Devon 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
Upon the Complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of East Stonehouse aforesaid in the said County of Devon unto us
whose Names are hereunto set and Seals affixed being two of His
Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Devon and
one of us of the Quorum that Agnes Postlethwaite the Wife of James
Postlethwaite a Serjt. of Royal Marines now absent from her and their
two children Gertrude Amelia Agnes aged upwards of three years and
Richard Appleby Harrison aged nearly two years have come to inhabit in
the said Parish of East Stonehouse not having gained a legal settlement
there nor produced any Certificate owning themselves to be settled
elsewhere and that the said Agnes Postlethwaite and the said two
children are actually chargeable to the said Parish of East Stonehouse
We the said Justices upon due Proof made thereof as well upon
Examination of the said Agnes the Wife of the said James Postlethwaite
upon Oath as otherwise and likewise upon due Consideration had of the
Premises do adjudge the same to be true and we do likewise adjudge that
the last lawful settlement of the said Agnes Postlethwaite and the said
two children, Gertrude Amelia Agnes, and Richard Appleby Harrison is in
the said Parish of Roche in the said County of Cornwall
We do therefore require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the said Parish of East Stonehouse or some or one of you to
convey the said Agnes Postlethwaite and the said two children from and
out of your said Parish of East Stonehouse to the said Parish of Roche
and them to deliver to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor there
or to some or one of them, together with this our Order, or a true copy
thereof, at the same time shewing to them the original. And we do also
hereby require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish of Roche to receive and provide for them as Inhabitants
of your said Parish.
Given under our hands and Seals the ninth day of September in the fifty
eighth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the third and
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen
(signed & sealed) John Hawker
(signed & sealed) Edmd Lockyer
(Endorsed on the back)
54 Geo 3
I hereby depute John Hawke to convey or cause to be conveyed to the
Parish of Roche in the County of Cornwall, Agnes Postlethwaite and her
two children – and them to deliver to some one of the Churchwardens or
Overseers of the Poor there – making a receipt hereon
Will Williams Overseer
Richd Varcoe Churchwarden
N. Hawkey Overseer
East Stonehouse
14 Sepr 1818
(Also endorsed on the back)
1818
Parish of Roche in
The Coy of Cornwall
Copy
Complaint, Examination
& Order of Removal
Re Agnes Postlethwaite
& family
N.B. Handwritten document
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/1
Document 2
Copy Examination of Agnes Postlethwaite – 9th September 1818
Devon to Wit. The Examination of Agnes Postlethwaite now living in and
chargeable to the Parish of East Stonehouse in the County of Devon the
Wife of James Postlethwaite a Serjeant of Royal Marines now absent from
her taken on Oath before us two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County this 9th day of Septr 1818 touching the legal
settlement of her Husband, that of herself, and her two children
Gertrude Amelia Agnes aged upwards of 3 Years and Richard Appleby
Harrison aged nearly 2 Years.
Who saith. That she was born in the Parish of Roche near St Austle in
the County of Cornwall in the Year 1786 and remained there with her
parents until their death, at which time she was about 12 Years of Age.
When she came to Torpoint in the Parish of Anthony in the County
aforesaid and hired herself a yearly servant with a Mrs Bond with whom
Examinant lived upwards of 12 Months. After quitting this service she
lived in various places in Stoke Damerel and East Stonehouse, and then
hired herself a yearly servant with a Mrs Pattison in Durnford Street in
the last mentioned Parish with whom she lived 13 months, and after
quitting, went and hired herself with a Mrs Wright in Navy Row in the
Parish of Stoke Damerel where she continued 11 months, and then
intermarried with her said Husband at St Andrew Plymouth 29th May 1814
by whom she hath had the before mentioned children born under wedlock.
That she knows her said Husband’s Settlement to be in the Parish of
Roche aforesaid, he having left his Father’s abode there (the Parsonage
House, his Father being the Rector) and enlisted into the Marine Corps
at Plymouth upwards of 9 Years since. That at the time of his marriage
with Examinant, he was upwards of 23 Years of Age. That he deserted from
the Marine Head Quarters on the 29 June last.
And Examinant further saith that since her said marriage no greater
Rental than 5 Guineas per Annum hath ever been paid by her said Husband.
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SWORN before us being
First read over to Examinant |
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(signed) Agnes Postlethwaite |
(signed) John Hawker
(signed) Edmd Lockyer |
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N.B. Handwritten document
Source: LDS Film 1596594, CRO Ref: DDP
198/13/3/1
Contributed by John Evans
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