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RefNoKHCP/1/6/101
AltRefNoHCP/1/6/101
TitlePresentment that Richard and Elizabeth Wright, John Bateman, John Ladds, William Cave (all yeomen of Upton) and Thomas Pavell, publican, Upton, conspired to relieve the parish of Upton from the charge of Elizabeth Haynes, a poor single woman, and to burden therewith the parish of Alconbury by bringing about a marriage between Elizabeth and Joseph Peacock, a poor single man of Alconbury unable to maintain himself and any poor woman he should take to wife - following which marriage Alconbury had been put to great charges (£50) to maintain the woman. (The document gives details of the inducement to Joseph - 5s. and a shoulder of mutton for the wedding dinner and a pound note and two shillings of lawful money and some plums and a pound flour and two gallons of ale on the morning of the solemnisation - also £5 or £6 or a bed and other furniture to furnish a room when they set led in Alconbury. No true bill.
Date1817
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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