Friends of Hastings Cemetery
Purpose |
Common terms |
Trail Leaflet |
Mystery of JB I Burials |
Memorial Symbolism |
Hastings Cemetery Database |
Stories Index A - Z |
Australian Connections |
Swan Inn 1943 |
World War 1 Stories |
Writers |
Davies, Frances Alford |
Elworthy, Thomas - Architect |
Swan death notices |
Screeen Wall Names |
Common Terms Explained
Instructions -
Persons following no particular Profession, Trade or calling, and holding no public office, but deriving their incomes chiefly from land, houses, mine, or other real property, from dividends, interest of money, annuities & etc. may designate themselves "Landed Proprietor," ......"Fundholder"....as the case may be.
The Settlement Act Of 1697 debarred strangers from residing in a parish unless they could produce a settlement certificate showing that they would be taken back by their home parish if they became in need of poor relief; law of settlement (1662) allowed justices to remove any stranger who moved into the parish unless he rented a property valued at least £10. To this end, incomers were subjected to Examinations for Settlement.
Court Directory
Various ‘authorities’ give differing descriptions of the Court Directory found in most street directories, generally up to around the end of the First World War.