https://www.genguide.co.uk/source/settlement-certificates-examinations-and-removal-orders-parish-poor-law/A person gained the right of settlement under the following conditions:
A new born child took the father’s settlement regardless of the place of birth.
A parish apprentice from the age of seven who served and lived in the same parish for 40 consecutive days.
A married trader or person renting a smallholding or farm who had stayed for 12 months, paid parish rates and rented property over £10 per year.
An unmarried man who had worked for a year in the parish.
A woman took the settlement of the man she married and a widow who remarried took the husband’s settlement.
Servants who stayed one year from date of hiring, and left with full wages.
A person who inherited an estate of land and lived on the estate for more than 40 days could.
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