Settlement Certificate Help

[loulou12]

Hi all,

I wonder if someone can help me?  I'm looking for a Settlement Certificate for a John Vernon - I have found him in Bothamsall but cannot locate his original place of birth.  He married his wife Ann Holmes in Mansfield Woodhouse. 

John's family eventually came back and settled in Mansfield Woodhouse - that part's easy :-)

I know this may sound very basic but does a settlement certificate show which town/village you came from before the town/village you are at the moment settling in?

Very many thanks for any help you can give,

Loulou

[Sandymc47]

Hi Loulou

Welcome to Rootschat.  Have you got a year we could start looking
from as there are a couple of hundred years to search in lol.
You will I am sure get alot of us helping but we need a little starter
Thank you

regards Sandymc

[NEILKE]

hi i hope its the 1930s my dads family moved spoth then i know all about them but would love to know how it was funded.
neil

[Annie65115]

A settlement certificate should indeed show the place the person came from; in fact they can show a wealth of interesting info!

If no-one here finds one for you, it might be worth contacting the Nottingham records office.

[NEILKE]

my post should have said moved south
neil

[behindthefrogs]

The settlement act was repealed in 1834 although you can still find certificates up to 1876 in a few places.  After 1876 the parish had lost its responsibility for the poor which had moved to county and borough councils.  Even when the act was fully operational it only applied to the poor and those considered likely to become a burden on the parish.  If you really are looking for 1930 then you are nearly a hundred years too late.

David

[NEILKE]

thanks david i think i should start another posting it was a thing my dad didnt talk to much about this and his childhood.
neil

[Sandymc47]

Hi Loulou,
Do you have a date when John Vernon may have used a Settlement certificate? Or maybe his age etc.

Neil, in the 1930's there was a surge of people from the North who
went down South to the London area due to poverty as there were
no jobs for most people after the Wall Street Crash in 1929.
London was still expanding and the Goverment became concerned
about the influx of all these people and decided to get jobs to
be spread around instead of concentrating in the London area.
Your family probably moved with very little money and could even
have walked it as the Jarrow Marchers came through Mansfield and
area in 1936 and this could have prompted a lot of people to move South.

Hope you both find what you are looking for
regards Sandymc  

[Loulou330]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you so much for your replies - I'm sorry I didn't get back straight away, couldn't get on a computer last night!!!

I think that John would have used his settlement certificate between 1765 and 1766 ish - I got my facts wrong on my first post - he could also have married Ann Holmes in West Markham which is a village closer to Bothamsall than Mansfield Woodhouse. 

Although I think I ought to research a little further into the Ann Holmes in Mansfield Woodhouse!!  But that's something for me :-)

Thank you again,

Loulou