England Removal Passes and Settlement Disputes - International Institute

Settlement (cont.)
Removal Pass for Robert Little 1801 Original illustrated by Cole and Titford

Removal Order for Hannah Gledhill 1804 The following example seems to contravene the spirit of the 1722 Act.

A Removal Order identical to the one above but concerning John Gledhill, Sarah his wife and Hannah their child aged one year and nine months, removing them from Halifax to Southowram occurs in the same batch. This one has the Forms for Suspension and Reinstatement on the back filled out as follows:

Suspension and Re-Instatement of Removal Order for John Gledhill 1813-14

It is to be noted that the parish of Halifax was enormous, with 26 separate townships including Halifax, Northowram, Ovenden, and Southowram, each with its own set of overseers mentioned in various documents here.

A Traveller with a Removal Order

Further examples can be found in Camp (2002-2). Removal was still operating in the twentieth century, and Gibson, Rogers and Webb in their work Poor Law Union Records state that some 15,000 persons per year were still being removed up to the First World War.

Settlement Disputes
A major part of the business of the Quarter Sessions was the resolution of settlement disputes between parishes, an example follows.

Magistrates Order for Hearing on Settlement Dispute 1827

Accompanying this Order is a copy of the original Order of Removal with a notation ''Admit them. J. Jupp. 30 October 1827,'' and on the same paper some notes from information presumably supplied by James Larkin:

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