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kizmiaz
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Poor Law Removal Orders
« on: Sunday 27 February 05 19:07 UTC (UK) »
Hi

Does anyone know much about the Poor Law and Removal orders?

I have been having a look on the West Sussex Poor Law database http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/content/libraries-and-archives/record-office/family-history/poor-law-database.jsp
and see that there is a match on there for someone who may have been my 5-greats-grandfather, Thomas Breden. This person is listed as being removed from East Grinstead and relocated to Balcombe. His wife's name was Elizabeth, same as my Thomas' wifes name, and the dates for the births of his three listed children all fit with their marriage in 1770, so I am fairly confident it was him.

What I'd be interested in knowing is whether the whole family was moved together, or whether the children were made the equivalent of "Wards of Court", and looked after by the parish. It would seem that his son Craven was also issued with a removal order from East Grinstead in 1803, so must have been in the parish.

Any information about what the Poor Law actually meant, and how it affected the people being "removed" would be most useful

Thanks
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Re: Poor Law Removal Orders
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 27 February 05 22:17 UTC (UK) »
Hi kizmiaz

Have a look at this site:

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/settle.html

In short, a child took his father's place of settlement.  Illegitimate children took their place of settlement as the place where they were born (which is why the overseers tried to move on a pregnant woman if she was not legally settled in their parish).  A woman took her husband's place of settlement when she married.

A whole family could be moved together unless some of them were already beginning an apprenticeship.  Wards of Court would have been for those several rungs up the social ladder from those affected by the Poor Law.  The system was abolished at the Reformation in 1660.

Nell
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