| Description | Settlement examination of Mary Hodgson widow and vagrant, apprehended by John Smith overseer of the poor of the township of Thorpe in the parish of Wycliffe. Mary Hodgson says that she is the widow of John Hodgson, late a common solider in the 57th Regiment of Foot. Her husband lived for seven years as a hired servant with Mr James Smith of Wigan in Lancashire. After that, he did nothing to gain a settlement elsewhere
Order to the constable of the township of Thorpe in the parish of Wycliffe to convey Mary Hodgson widow and her daughter Elizabeth aged 4 years, apprehended as vagrants in the township of Thorpe, to her place of settlement in Wigan in Lancashir |