| Description | Papers relating to the removal of the four orphan children of Thomas Robinson, including:
- copy examination dated 29 July 1844 of Wilfred Scurr of the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe relating to the last legal settlement of Thomas Robinson aged 10 years, William Robinson aged 8 years, Sarah Robinson aged 7 years and Charles Robinson aged 3 years, the legitimate orphan children of Thomas Robinson late of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe labourer deceased. With extracts from the parish registers of Kirby Knowle and Felixkirk, relating to the marriage of Thomas Robinson, the baptisms of his children and his burial. Scurr believes that Thomas Robinson never gained a legal settlement after 1824
- copy examination dated 29 July 1844 of Margaret Robinson of the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe widow. She remembered the marriage of her son Thomas Robinson with Jane Eden of Kirby Knowle, when she [Margaret] was living at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe. After their marriage Thomas and his wife lived at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe and stayed there for about 12 months and then went to Kirby Knowle where they stayed for 12 months before returning to Sutton under Whitestonecliffe. They stayed there for about five years before returning to Kirby Knowle for about 12 months, and then going back to Sutton under Whitestonecliffe where they stayed until the death of Jane, Margaret's daughter-in-law, about a year ago. Thomas stayed at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe until he died about ten weeks ago. She remembers the birth of the children, Thomas at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe on about 10 October 1833, William at Kirby Knowle on about 12 December 1835, Sarah at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe on about 4 February 1837 and Charles at Sutton under Whitestonecliffe on about 10 April 1841. The children lived with their father until his death, and since then have lived with her. None of them have done anything to gain a settlement in their own right. As she was unable to support them, Margaret applied for relief to the overseers of the poor for the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe, and has received relief from Joseph Metcalfe, relieving officer for the Thirsk Union. Margaret's son Thomas was a farming servant with Thomas Rose then of Bilsdale West Side and was with him at Martinmas 1824
- copy information dated 29 July 1844 of Wilfred Scurr one of the overseers of the poor of the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe that the four Robinson children have come to inhabit the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe without having gained a legal settlement there, nor having produced a certificate of their settlement elsewhere. They are being relieved by the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe and Scurr asks for an order to remove them to their place of legal settlement
- copy certificate dated 27 July 1844 from the Board of Guardians of the Thirsk Union that Thomas Robinson, William Robinson, Sarah Robinson and Charles Robinson became chargeable to the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe on 1 June 1844
- copy examination dated 29 July 1844 of William Rowland of the township of Thirsk solicitor. He was present at a meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Poor of Thirsk Union on 27 July 1844 and saw the above certificate of chargeability being signed
- copy examination dated 29 July 1844 of Joseph Metcalfe of the township of Sowerby relieving officer of the Thirsk Union. He has paid maintenance for the children to Margaret Robinson their grandmother
- order dated 29 July 1844 for the removal of Thomas Robinson aged 10 years, William Robinson aged 8 years, Sarah Robinson aged 7 years and Charles Robinson aged 3 years, the legitimate orphan children of Thomas Robinson late of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe labourer deceased, from the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe to the township of Bilsdale West Side
With copy examination dated 29 July 1844 of Thomas Rose of the township of Boltby. In 1823 he was a farmer living in the township of Bilsdale West Side and he hired Thomas Robinson, then unmarried, as a servant in husbandry from Martinmas Day 1823 until Martinmas Day 1824. Robinson lived and slept for over 40 days in the township of Bilsdale West Side and his wages were either £12 or 12 guineas
- brief for the Michaelmas Sessions in October 1844 to move to enter and respite an appeal between the township of Bilsdale West Side (appellants) and the township of Sutton under Whitestonecliffe (respondents) relating to Thomas Robinson's four orphaned children |