[list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton

[petra.mitchinson at doctors.org.uk]

Interesting. Was this to prove her settlement? But clearly she must have
been married or widowed as she had a different surname from her parents. And
thus she would have belonged to her husband's settlement. Or was she a
premarital child and went under her mother's maiden surname? Not very likely
if her father later married her mother. Or was this simply to prove her age?
 
There are a couple of things I do not understand.
 
"living at 50 in the Parish of Torpenhow" - what is 50 in this context?
 
"her father and mother with himself originally went from Bewaldeth..." -
should that not been "with her" (i.e. Sarah)?
 
Petra
 
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Subject: [list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton
 
The following note is to be found pinned to a page of the Torpenhow Parish
register covering the years 1750-51
 

John Mounsey aged 79 living at 50 in the Parish of Torpenhow appeared
personally before me and made oath that he has known

Sarah Wells ever since she was a child. That she was the eldest daughter of
John & Ann Fletcher and that she was said to be six years younger

than himself and from his own knowledge her father and mother with himself
originally went from Bewaldeth in the Parish of Torpenhow to

Skelton-woodend in the Parish of Skelton where she now resides.
	

Edward Stanley, Justice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, dated 20
July 1825
 
Nev. Ramsden
 
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