| Description | Papers relating to the removal of Thomas Fell, including:
- order dated 10 March 1835 for the removal of Thomas Fell from the township of Thornton to the township of Idle in the West Riding
- settlement examination of Thomas Fell dated 10 March 1835. He was born in Shipley near Bradford in the West Riding, and when he was about 10 years old, he was apprenticed for nine years to Richard Marsh of Windhill in the township of Idle in the West Riding paper maker. He served for six years but when his master's house was burned down, and his apprenticeship indenture was burned, and when his master died about a fortnight later, Mary Marsh, one of the two daughters of Joseph Marsh, and the sister of Richard Marsh deceased, gave Fell his liberty. He was hired by James Nicholls paper maker in the North Riding to do piecework in his paper mill, and either could give the other a fortnight's notice. He served Nicholls for 18 months before he got married; and has done nothing to gain a settlement anywhere else
- notice dated 12 June 1835 from the overseers of the poor of the township of Idle in the West Riding to the overseers of the poor of the township of Thornton. They intend to appeal against the removal of Thomas Fell, on the grounds that he was not bound apprentice to Richard Marsh of Windhill in the township of Idle paper maker for nine years, nor did he serve six years as an apprentice in the township of Idle, as has been stated, and has gained no settlement in Idle
- order made at the Quarter Sessions held on 29 June 1835 for the reversal of the order to remove Thomas Fell from the township of Thornton to the township of Idle [2 copies, one incomplete] |