Removed to Chedworth 1774 - 1858
transcribed by M. Tovey
mike@tovey2004.ndo.co.uk
If one of your relatives suddenly seems to have disappeared perhaps they were ‘REMOVED’. Under the Poor Law anyone incapable of earning a living was likely to be be ‘examined’ and if legal ‘settlement ’ to another parish could be established they would be the subject of a removal order.
Few of the associated ‘examinations’ have survived but where they have there is a surprising wealth of geneological information to be found. The following is a listing of paupers who were removed to Chedworth - there is some evidence that this is not a complete listing. The majority of the removal orders, not surprisingly, were instigated during the winter months between October and March.

Names

James EVANS
William and Mary MYERS
Sarah COOK
John and Margaret BURTON
Mary LARNER
William and Ann HARDING
Thomas Mason
John and Keziah MIDWINTER
Edward MILES age 11- born Coln Rogers and apprenticed to
Wm MIDWINTER but ran away.
Richard and Maria WHITE
Lydia LARNER - examination of Mary BROWN wife of
labourer Wm. BROWN.
Mary PEER singlewoman.
John SELBY - disordered in his mind.
Ann ROBINS singlewoman being with child.
James and Elizabeth AISH and children (Middlesex) William 12
and James 7.
Thomas and Elizabeth MUSTOE and children Jacob 8, Isaac 6,
Abraham 3, Mary 2 and Alice 6 months.
Ann NEWMAN the wife of Robert NEWMAN Private in 67th
Regiment of Foot.
Ann NEWMAN alias TROTMAN wife of (Devon) Wm
Newman alias Trotman a seaman serving on HMS Windsor
Castle.
James and Elizabeth ASH. Possibly not Middlesex removed as
Chedworth parish agreed to pay 3s a week.
Emanuel and Elizabeth STEPHENS and (Wilt) children
Maria 13, Moses 11, Arran 9, Mark 5, Ann 3, Ezra 2 and Eli 6
months.
Joshua and Jane STEVENS and children Sarah 9, Joshua 6
and Ellen 3.
Eliza SMITH age 29 widow of John SMITH and children Ester
2 and John 4m
Emmanuel and Rose BRIDGES and children Ann, William,
Rosina, Mary, Prudence, Elizabeth and Jane
Robert BAILEY an order served from Badminton a year earlier
had apparently been ignored by Chedworth.
Rose BRIDGES and children Prudence, Elizabeth and
Jane.
Elizabeth BAILISS widow of Wm BAILISS children Mary Ann
11, Joseph 5 and Lucy 2.
William and Elizabeth WILSON and children Mary Ann,
Elizabeth, William and Ellen.
James and Maria SMITH and children Charles 15 Louisa 11.

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