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Wondering if someone can look up in the Essex Poor Law documents for the following person:
Munson Mills
- At age 19 in 1774, Munson became an apprentice farrier to Jona Oddy in Ardleigh, Essex. This was recorded in the apprentice indentures.
- Munson married Jane Wilby at Kirby-le-Soken, Essex on 23rd July 1783.
- Munson and Jane’s first child, a daughter named Jane is believed to have been born in Beaumont. She was baptised in Great Oakley. This child lived just over one month, and was baptised and buried on the same day in Great Oakley on 16th January 1785.
- Around the year 1785, not long after the birth of their first child, Munson and Jane decided to move from the Beaumont area of Essex to Dedham. Family lore is that they required a settlement certificate in order to move.
I am looking for any details from the Settlement Certificate that may assist me with further research.

I have just discovered an extremely interesting fact about a branch of the Mills family I am descended from.
My 5x great-grandparents Munson and Jane Mills (nee Wilby) had 6 known children between the years 1784 and 1798 - 1 in Beaumont, 4 in Dedham, and the last unknown. On moving from Beaumont to Dedham, Munson and Jane carried a certificate to show their place of origin so that in the event of destitution their former parish would be responsible for them. This was a settlement certificate that was issued in 1785.
Interestingly, 5 of their 6 children are located (as adults) in different workhouses across Essex in the 1841 census. Because each of the siblings are located in a different workhouse, it appears to be a 'deliberate' placement. If this is true, what would be the reason for this? This is where the siblings are located:
- Jane (married name Watsham, with husband Samuel) - located in St Osyth workhouse

- James Mills (with wife Mary) - located in Brightlingsea workhouse

- John Mills (with wife Sarah) - only one of the siblings NOT located in the workhouse - working as a vet in Suffolk - my 4x great-grandparent

-Thomas Mills (with wife Charlotte) - located in Great Oakley workhouse

- Sarah (married name Smith, with husband Charles) - located in the Langham workhouse

- Mary (married name Watsham, with husband John) - located in the Fingringhoe workhouse.

If anyone can enlighten me as to why 5 of these siblings would be simultaneously located in 5 different workhouses, I would greatly appreciate it. All of the families are out of the workhouse by the time the 1851 census was taken.   

Just wondering if anyone has any information on this person who has a death entry in Queensland's BDMs:

Richard Morris d 25/9/1885, Mother: Elizabeth Harris, Father: John Morris

Any assistance provided would be greatly appreciated. 

I just received the death certificate of my 4x great uncle Christopher Pollard who died at Drift, Sancreed on 22/11/1841 at aged 70.

Unusually, there is no cause of death recorded. This section has been left totally blank.

I know in modern times if they were uncertain of the cause of death, they specify if the death is uncertain or presumed. Did the same rules apply in 1841? Or if they just didn't know, they left it blank?