Sarah (Musson) Roberts (bef. 1741 - bef. 1819)

Born before 11 Oct 1741 in Swinstead, Lincolnshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Roberts — married 23 May 1770 in Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, England

Descendants

Died before 15 Dec 1819 at about age 78 in Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Sarah was born before 1741. She passed away before 1819.

Sources

• England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973

Name Peter Roberts

Gender Male

Marriage Date 23 May 1770

Marriage Place Witham-On-The-Hill,Lincoln,England

Spouse Sarah Musson

FHL Film Number 508075, 508095

Household Members

Name

Age

Peter Roberts Sarah Musson

Peter Roberts 1748-1809 • MWXV-S9X Sarah Musson 1741-1819 • MLC4-ST7 Marriage: 23 MAY 1770 Witham-On-The-Hill,Lincoln,England Preferred Children (6) 1. Elizabeth Roberts 1766-1848 • 2733-NH3 2. Ann Roberts 1770-Deceased • MLQF-7DK 3. Peter Roberts 1772-Deceased • MLQX-BK4 4. Mary Roberts 1778-1780 • MLWX-5JQ 5. Sarah Roberts 1780-Deceased • MLWV-HH4 6. Mary Roberts 1790-Deceased • LHYL-BSX

Regarding Sarah Musson and Peter Roberts -

Carlby – Witham on the hill is less than 3 miles.

Settlement Certificate applied for day after wedding.

Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates Transcription

First name(s) Peter Last name Roberts Year 1770 Month May Day 24 Place Manthorpe, Witham Country England Parish of legal settlement Manthorpe, Witham Other details wife Sarah Lincolnshire archives reference Carlby 13/SC/10 Record set Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates 1675-1860 Category Institutions & organisations Subcategory Workhouses and poor law Collections from Great Britain, England Lincolnshire Family History Society About Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates 1675 - 1860 The records contain details of 8,590 people who were granted permission to settle in a Lincolnshire parish under the 1662 Poor Law Relief Act between 1665 and 1865. Certificates of settlement were granted to those on rents less than £10 a year who were entitled to claim on the parish’s poor relief if it became necessary. Some of those granted certificates were working. You could claim if you had been employed in the parish for more than a year and a day or if you had an apprenticeship of at least seven years from a settled person within the parish. For those who were not employed and who qualified as “impotent poor” then you were entitled if you had been born in a parish or had lived there without anyone complaining about you, for a period of 40 uninterrupted days. Unmarried and expectant mothers were usually given certificates with the most reluctance as they were considered the most expensive to support if it became necessary. In 1692 an amendment to the 1662 Act, “For supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor” gave some protection for those with certificates, including newcomers to a parish who had the paperwork from their previous parish, as long as they didn’t need the poor rate. The same Act contained provision for the so-called “badging of the poor”. Those in receipt of poor relief would have to wear, in red or blue, on their right shoulder, the letter “P” preceded with the initial letter for the parish. Lincolnshire is a historic county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire in the northwest and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. Northamptonshire is in the south. The county town is Lincoln

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First name(s) Ann Last name Roberts Gender Female Birth year - Birth place - Baptism year 1770 Baptism date 09 Sep 1770 Place Carlby County Lincolnshire Country England Father's first name(s) Peter Father's last name Roberts Mother's first name(s) Sarah Mother's last name - Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, Great Britain

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