WHITE Family Removals & Settlements

In the days before social security took care of the needs of the less fortunate members of the community, each parish was responsible for the needs of its poorer inhabitants.

To quote from Pauline Saul, in The Family Historian's Enquire Within:

"SETTLEMENT: From 1691 a settlement could be gained by birth in a parish, by various rent / rate qualifications, by being apprenticed to a parishioner or by serving a year in service in the parish. Anyone from the working class wishing to move from one parish to another had to obtain a certificate saying that his parish of settlement would be responsible if he needed poor relief. The system lapsed in the early 19th century".

"REMOVAL ORDERS: A pauper was considered to be the responsibility of his parish of legal settlement when in need of parish relief. An order would be made for him to be 'removed' to his last parish of legal settlement to which he would be escorted by the Constable (being passed from parish to parish and handed over at the boundary)."

"EXAMINATIONS: An Act of 1662 empowered two justices to order intruders into a parish to leave and return to the one from which they had come. They might, however, apply for a 'settlement' to allow them to stay.

To determine whether a person should be granted a settlement certificate an 'examination' was made of the person's background...."

Upon marriage, a wife took her husband's place of settlement.

Removal from Ticknall to Belton: dated 13 December 1775

Thomas WHITE, Rebecca his wife and Samuel their son aged about two years did lately come to Ticknall not having gained legal settlement....from Belton, Leicestershire

Removal from Ticknall to Belton: dated 25 July 1806

James WHITE (blacksmith), Elizabeth his wife and children Daniel aged five, Rebecca aged three, and Francis aged about one year...removed to Belton, Leicestershire, 25 July 1806

Removal from Ticknall to Belton: dated 16 August 1809

William WIGHT sic, Hannah his wife and children Elizabeth aged six, Thomas aged three, and Edward aged twenty-two weeks...removed to Belton, Leicestershire, 16 August 1809

Removal from Ticknall to Willington: dated January 1811

Samuel WHITE, Lydia his wife, and children Mary, Thomas, Benjamin, Charles, & Sarah, the last two children of Samuel WHITE by Catherine his former wife. Jan 1811

Removal from Ticknall to Belton: dated April 1811

Samuel WHITE, Lydia his wife, and children Mary, Thomas, Benjamin, Charles, & Sarah, the last two children of Samuel WHITE by Catherine his former wife. Apr 1811

Settlement Examination of Samuel WHITE

• Removal Orders

• Settlement Certificates

• Settlement Examinations