The Parish of Kensington
Appellts
For the Appellants
The Parish of St Luke Chelsea
Respondts.
Touching the Settlement Cath: yates & her four Childn. passed from Chelsea
to
Kensington
25th. Septr. 1781
By Order of J Leroux
Jona Durden< no role >
two Justices said
Cath yates< no role >
& her four Children were passed
from Chelsea
to Kensington
as the place of their Lawfull Settlemt
To which order the Appellants have appellants have appealed & given previous Notice
of their Intention
Case
The Pauper Cath yates & the Children are the wife and Children of one Thos. yates< no role >
deced who
was by Trade a Farrier or Blacksmith
& Served Part of his time with one Wm Adlington< no role >
an
Imnate only in Little Chelsea
& Little Chelsea
is North Side in Kensington
& South in Chelsea parish
the Masters Shop was in Kensington
& where they Lodged during his Keeping Shop
in Kensington
was
inthe
Chelsea parish
But for the last year or two of the apprenticeship the Servitude & residence
of haster & apprentice was in Chiney Row Chelsea
That from the Expiration of the apprenticeship the Husband went & worth about the County & about
years age Intermarried with the pauper atthat the above four Children & is since
died
That about four or five years age the pauper & her four Children were passed from Walkhampton
to Chelsea
by Order of Two Justices and Chelsea parish Accepted & Kept there Without Appeal
lave Maintained them in their work hours as their poor ever since and the pauper having few Goods & property at
the place they Cause from the Officers of Chelsea
as soon as they discovered then fetch'd them & Sold of same
and then per force & threats prevailed upon the woman to Sweare to her Husbands having told her
that he Served his have in Kensington
by each he was Settled
But the Husbands Sisters who lives at Croydon
& several other persons remembers the above
Circumstances of wch we have apprired the Officers of Chelsea
and they have Wrote to Kensington
that they will Consent to Allow the appeal
We have been Obliged to Cloath the paupers & have had them 3 Weeks
& have been at some trouble & Expence in one Injury at Croyden
Walthamstow
Etc