General Quarter Session for
Middlesex 15th January 1795}
St. George Southwark -Appellts
Agt.
St. Margaret Westminster Respondts.

For the Appellts.

Middlesex

This an Appeal Agt. in Order of removal dated the 24th. day
of December last Under [..] Hands Heals of CJ Kerby & P Andrews
Esqrs. two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in & for he County of
Middlesex where by Keturah Grant< no role > the Widow of James Grant< no role > decd
with Edward< no role > her Child (by her send late Husband) aged about one year
St. Mouths were removed from the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster .
to the sd. Parish of St. George Southwark as the place of their Settlemt.
It seems the Paupers Husband was a Soldier and dead in Relsea Hopsital of
after his death she became Acquainted with another Solider with whom
she lived of Cohabited in the Parish of St Margaret Westmr. and wanted
nothing from the parish but in for tunately proving with Child the Attracted
the Notice of the Parish officers or of their Officers Beadle & she was taken
up to give an Account of her Settlement or the Father of her Child both of
which she readily did and declared that the man he lived with was not only
able out willing to take care of her being a Serjeant in the Surrey Number
but this did not Satisfy them. they Insisted upon removing het to her Settlemts.
& the Woman not willing to be sent a long way off she moor that her
Husband was a Scotchman but could not tell where he belonged to but
that her our Maiden Settlement was in the Parish of Saint George
South wark where she had lived a yearly hired Servant & therefore the
Respondt. sent her & her Child to St. George as her Maiden Settlement
Whether her own Settlent. recly in St. George parish or not will perhaps
come out clearly one Cross examination at Present she insists it is but
if it should turn out to be recly so then the Appellants say that the
Paupers Husband was born in the Parish of Dothall in Strath Pay in
the County of Inverness in Scotland tht he went into the County at 16 yrs.
& Age to never Sained any other Settlement and therefore the Appellant
say the Responds. ought to have sent to Pauper the Child to Dothall the
place of the Husbands Settlement, to this Settlement no Respondts. Answer
that suppose it is True the Parish where it is is in Scotland & they had no