Offer: Settlement Cert/ Removal Orders

[sunflower]

Sorry nothing for a Thomas Higgins

Carol

[vowgirl]

Thankyou Carol for looking

[Vixen60]

Hi I have found on Find My Past a removal order for Ann Weldon Oct 1827 being removed from Nottingham St Mary's to Sleaford in Lincolnshire- singlewoman pregnant.  Could you tell me if there are any more details about her in the Nottinghamshire records, perhaps a settlement examination.  I am not convinced that her maiden name was Weldon.  She may have also had two other children, perhaps Harriet and Joseph.

[sunflower]

Hi

I've checked my Nottingham list, but can't see anything for that name - Sorry

Carol

[Malcolm33]

Hello Carol,

     Just wondering if you have anything on William Grant who turned up in Babworth Notts sometime before 1795 when his son William was born there.    I have a copy of the Settlement certificate for his father Michael Grant who was born in Chinley Derbyshire and given the settlement certificate to live in Walton Derbyshire where his father, also a William Grant was born.  The Certificate says that his father was a certificate man to Chinley having been born in Whalton.   

      Michael's son William must have left Walton before 1793 as he got married that year on the way at Anston, Yorks - possibly following the new Chesterfield Canal to Ranby Babworth. 

     Regards Malcolm

[Vixen60]

Thank you, Carol. Great service

[sunflower]

Hi Malcolm

This is the only one I could find

William Grant and wife Ann - Settlement Cert from Barkstone to Newark 1777

Carol

[Malcolm33]

  Thank you Carol.    Not at all sure who this William Grant could be, but every piece is a help eventually.   Now I'm curious to see if I can see where he could fit in.   Whilst Grant is a fairly common name elsewhere especially north of the Border, there were hardly any at all in Notts in the 1642 protestation returns.     My Scottish Clans book tells me though that they more or less started off in Nottinghamshire - William Le Grand held property in Notts but also at Stratherrick in the Highlands in 1246.


   Most of the current Nottinghamshire Grants came in from Derbyshire mainly from the Peak District - Hope and also Chapel-en-le-Frith which is where the earliest Grants I can find were in 1687.   Another descendant from the same William Grant from Chinley/Walton had his ydna compared on the Grant dna pages and it came up close to an Edinburgh Grant.

    Thanks again, Malcolm

[Malcolm33]

 I just dug a little deeper and found this page - https://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/grant-01.html     Fancy that then, it seems that Grantham was named after the family as was the River Grant which is now the Cam running through Cambridge.    But more of a coincidence is that Barkstone whence cameth the William Grant you found, Carol, is very close to Grantham.