Quarter Sessions Poor Law Cases 1661-1800

Angmering Extracts


Quarter Session Courts were held at major towns in Sussex - four times a year in its western half and four times a year in its eastern half. They dealt with a multitude of crimes and matters of local administration. Of the latter, these included relief of the poor, settlement certificates, removal orders, bastardy orders, vagrancy, and apprenticeship disputes. In the western part of Sussex, courts were held at Chichester, Midhurst, Arundel, Horsham, Petworth and Steyning.

Contained within the Quarter Sessions Order Books (QO/EW4) held at the East Sussex Record Office (ESRO) are many cases that relate to Angmering. A high proportion of these are Removal Orders, some moving people from our village, but others returning people to Angmering if it was their place of "settlement". Some of these relate to people moved to Angmering after a period in a "House of Correction". Other cases relate to the relief of families whose main breadwinner was away with the militia, or was an ex-soldier wounded during service in the militia and unable to work.

Below is an index of 93 cases extracted from the Sussex Quarter Sessions records where Angmering has some relevance (a few being only indirectly - perhaps as the master of an apprentice or as a relation). If anybody wishes to investigate any of the people/cases further, they may interrogate the Order Books at ESRO. Alternatively, the Editor of this website (see Contacts) may be able to assist where this in impractical.

NAME

YEAR

CATEGORY

Alderton

1739

Removal

Barnard

1722

Apprentices

Billigshurst

1741

Removal

Bisshopp (Bishop)

1794

Removal

Blunden

1718

Apprentices

Boley (Bowley)

1691

Removal

Bowley (Boley)

1691

Removal

Brookeman

1672

Bastardy

Buckwell

1711

Apprentices

Buckwell

1726

Poor Relief

Bunn

1701

Removal

Burchell

1792

Removal

Burcher

1728

Removal

Buster

1772

Removal

Caiger

1764

Removal

Carey

1796

Removal

Caudler

1758

Removal

Cheal

1752

Removal

Clements

1767

Removal

Cole

1685

Removal

Cole

1772

Removal

Collins

1718

Apprentices

Coote

1726

Poor Relief

Coote

1752

Removal

Cooter

1758

Removal

Cucknell

1703

Removal

Cuckney (Cucknell)

1703

Removal

Dammer

1752

Removal

Drewett

1724

Removal

Duffield

1707

Removal

Fibbins

1800

Removal

Foster

1758

Removal

Geale

1690

Removal / Correction

Grant

1773

Correction

Greenfield

1687

Removal

Greenfield

1752

Removal

Greenfield

1773

Removal

Grevatt

1755

Removal

Guile

1733

Bastardy

Hedger

1776

Removal

Hill

1733

Bastardy

Hills

1762

Removal

Hines

1737

Removal

Holcombe (Halcombe)

1793

Removal

Holden

1684

Apprentices

Holland

1722

Apprentices

Hollands

1734

Removal

Hopkins

1794

Removal

Hunsham

1785

Removal

Hunt

1707

Removal

James

1663

Removal

Juden

1772

Removal

Juden

1800

Removal

King

1800

Removal

Langford

1728

Removal

Manning

1670

Settlement

Manning

1684

Militia

Miles

1732

Removal

Mitchell

1759

Removal

Mitten

1688

Removal

Mitten

1689

Removal / Correction

Money

1701

Removal

Nowell (Knowll)

1693

Removal

Pannett

1686

Removal / Correction

Payne

1672

Bastardy

Peachey

1734

Removal

Pinke

1727

Vagrant

Piper

1776

Removal

Pratt

1702

Removal

Price

1702

Complaint

Pullen

1774

Removal

Purdy

1778

Removal

Puttocke

1735

Removal

Roach

1711

Apprentices

Roach

1711

Removal

Robinson

1770

Removal

Roe (Row)

1715

Removal

Rudman (Redman)

1771

Removal

Ruff

1764

Removal

Simmonds

1773

Removal

Sims

1707

Removal

Smart

1774

Removal

Smith

1789

Removal

Smith

1796

Removal

Streater

1703

Removal

Tayler

1692

Removal

Tillyer

1702

Complaint

Tyllier (Tillier)

1713

Poor Relief

Tyllier (Tillier)

1714

Poor Relief

Waterman

1711

Removal

Weeks

1793

Removal

White

1794

Removal

Wilson

1793

Removal

Wilson

1794

Removal

Wright

1711

Apprentices

Wright

1711

Removal

Page first uploaded: 1 November 2008