How does one go about finding Settlement papers. i have been searching Oxfordshire where my chap settled but no luck. I don't know where he originated from.
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Thread: Settlement papers
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13-07-2009, 5:46 PM #1perisamaGuest
Settlement papers
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13-07-2009, 6:16 PM #2sueannbowenGuest
Hi there - I am no expert but I think that if he had a job and could support himself and his family there would have been no need for settlement papers. I think it was only an issue if you had no work and turned up looking for work that the locals were worried that you might be a drain on their resources. Then you would need a guarantee from your own area that they would pay your way if you fell on hard times. I think that records for this sort of thing occur in Vestry minutes.
I bet someone else on here knows more than me about it though! Do you know what his occupation was?
Sue
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14-07-2009, 6:50 AM #3GeoffersGuestOriginally Posted by perisama
Originally Posted by sueannbowen
Renting a tenement woth more than £10 per annum
Paying poor rates
Serving as a parish officer
Being bound apprentice in the parish by indenture
Serving a year in service, if unmarried
Being hired as a labourer for one year
I'm sure someone will add any which I've forgotten.
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14-07-2009, 7:11 AM #4perisamaGuest
James PRATT was a shoemaker around the mid 1700's. I contacted the Northampton shoe museum cos they keep records going way back but he wasn't there. Oxford have no record of him and now I think I will have to start searching all the surrounding Counties.
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14-07-2009, 8:06 AM #5GeoffersGuest
If he was a shoemaker around the mid-1700's he may appear in the Board of Stamps apprencticeship books
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14-07-2009, 6:32 PM #6sueannbowenGuest
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31-03-2010, 10:48 AM #7perisamaGuest
Can I be a cheeky so and so and ask if anyone has a copy of the Board of stamps apprenticeship books ? And wouls they be willing and able to see if my James Pratt ,Shoemaker is therein?
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31-03-2010, 11:25 AM #8
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In case it helps, abstracts of the Apprenticeship Tax Books are available online at Origins.net, which has a 72 hour subscription option.
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31-03-2010, 2:49 PM #9GeoffersGuest
See Kerrywood's reply above
Originally Posted by perisama
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01-04-2010, 6:10 AM #10perisamaGuest
Ah... no I didn't realise... better if I go to Parish Chest then and do some shopping.
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