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From: "Eileen White" <>
Subject: Re: [WSX] NP
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:49:13 +1030
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Thanks for the suggestions re NP and also for the book suggestion. It sounds interesting and I will see if I can track down a copy via a library here in Oz.
Regards
Eileen
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Wills
To: Eileen White ;
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [WSX] NP


I think it was to do with the Poor Law - a parish would only pay relief to
people who came from there - their "legal place of settlement". There is a
good description of this in "Rural Life in Wessex" by J H Bettey ISBN
0-86299-425-X.
He suggests that the "settlement examinations" provide "a wealth of detail
about the lives of just that sort of person who does not normally figure in
any other official document". Does anyone know how you can get to look at
these?
Philip Wills

----- Original Message -----
From: Eileen White <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: [WSX] NP


> Hi Listers,
> What did it mean, in the early 1800's, when a person stated that a
particular place was their Native Place? My ancestor was baptised at
Heytesbury but claimed his NP was Tisbury.
> Cheers
> Eileen
>
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>
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