EDMONDS, Samuel + Honor SE/RO Isle Abbotts to Church Oakley Ham

1833 PS/ILM 6/24 27

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County of Somerset

To the Churchwardens and others, the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Isle Abbotts in the County aforesaid, to convey: And to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Church Okeley in the county Hants to receive and obey. These.

WHEREAS Complaint has been made by you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Isle Abbotts aforesaid, unto us, whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Somerset aforesaid, (whereof one is of the Quorum,) that Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife have lately intruded themselves into your said parish of Isle Abbotts there to inhabit as Parishioners contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor; and are become chargeable to your said Parish of Isle Abbotts

We therefore upon due Examination and Enquiry made into the Premises aforesaid, and on the Oath of the said Samuel EDMONDS this Day taken before us in Writing or otherwise, do find and adjudge the same to be true: And we do also adjudge that the last place of the legal settlement of them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife was and is in the parish of Church Okeley aforesaid.

THESE are therefore in her Majesty's name, to order and require you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Isle Abbotts aforesaid, that you, some, or one of you, do forthwith remove and convey them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife from your said parish of Isle Abbotts to the Parish of Church Okeley aforesaid, and them deliver to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor or some or one of them there, together with this our order, or a true copy thereof.

AND you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Church Okeley aforesaid, are likewise hereby required in his Majesty's name, to receive and provide for them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife as Inhabitants of your said Parish of Church Okeley until from thence they shall be discharged by due course of law.  Given under our Hands and Seals, the fifth day of August in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the forth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one Thousand, eight Hundred and thirty three.

 

Vincent??? STUCKEY??

Thos. B. UTTERMARE

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Whereas it doth appear unto us Thomas Bampfield UTTERMARE and Vincent STUCKEY Esquires the Justices within named, that Samuel EDMONDS the Pauper within ordered to be removed is at present unable to travel by reason of sickness and infirmity.  We do therefore suspend the execution of the within order of removal until it shall be made appear that the same may safely be executed without danger.  Given under our hands the sixth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

 

Vincent STUCKEY

Thos. B. UTTERMARE

 

 

Whereas it is now made appear unto us, Richard Thomas COMBE and Thomas Bampfield UTTERMARE Esquires two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset, and we are fully satisfied, that the within order of removal may be executed without danger: We do therefore hereby order the same to be forthwith put in execution accordingly; And whereas it is duly proved to us upon oath that the sum of one pounds sixteen shillings hath been necessarily incurred by the suspension of the within order of removal; We do therefore order and direct the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Church Okely to which Parish the said Samuel EDMONDS and wife are ordered to be removed to pay the said sum of one pound sixteen shillings to John WALDRON overseer of Isle Abbotts upon demand.  Given under our hands the 25th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

 

Thos. B. UTTERMARE

N. T. COMBE?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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County of Somerset

 

The examination of Samuel EDMONDS of Isle Abbotts in the said county Labourer taken this 5th day of August 1833. Before me one of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said county.

 

Who upon his oath saith that he is about 80 years old and was born in the parish of Isle Abbotts aforesaid as he had heard and believes.  That he is now ill and chargeable to the said Parish – That when he was about eight years old his father placed him with Mr. (or W.) LOWMAN of Isle Brewers as a servant for his meat and clothes, and he lived with him in that mannor till he was about sixteen years old. That he then led a stalion for his master for three years and had the Fees of a shilling a mare and his Master and Mistrefs occasionally gave him some money.  That his Father had a Cottage House at Isle Abbotts aforesaid which he mortgaged to Mr. (or W.) Robert UTTERMARE for Sixty pounds. That he was his Fathers eldest son by his second wife; By his first wife he had three Daughters and one of them married William STROUD of Isle Abbotts aforesaid Cordwainer. That his Father went to Pensford to reaping?? leaving William STROUD and his wife to Lake care of his House for him during his absence; That he was then living at Isle Brewers in Lodgings with John TALBOT , and worked for Mr. LOWAN as a day labourer. But went up to Pensford to his Father, where his Father was taken ill and died.  That he never lived with his Father after STROUD married his half sister, that he buried his Father at Pensford, and went back to Isle Abbotts, to his Fathers House, but STROUD refused to let him into profsefsion of the House and sold what his Father had left and STOUD would never let him have profsefsion; That some time after his Father’s death he sold his Interest to Mr. Robert UTTERMARE who? had the mortgage and signed over the same to him by a Deed- and then went to live with Mr? LOWMAN his first Masters Brother at Chruch Okeley in Hampshire, and hired himself as a yearly servant and lived with him there five or six years, and never after hired himself as a yearly servant or rented any property to gain a settlement.  That after he left Mr. (or W.) LOWMAN, he went back to Isle Brewers aforesaid, and about thirty years ago he married Honor his present wife there.  That he had a former wife who died at Isle Brewers and was buried there. That after he married his present wife he lived at Isle Brewers three or four years, and then went back to Isle Abbotts and got into the House where he now lives claiming it as his own property for life and which is part of what his Father died profsefsed of and mortgaged to Mr? Robert Uttermare, which was then vacant but which House has been repaired eversince by the Parish officers.

 

 

The x mark of Samuel EDMONDS

 

Sworn before me

Thos. B. UTTERMARE