A Removal Order was typically made by Justices of the Peace. Used to send poor people back to their parish of settlement for maintenance.

In the 19th century a person could only have settlement in a place by birth, apprenticeshire, employment for at least 1 year, owning property worth at least £10 p.a. and one or tow other criteria. If they became uncmployed or without/low income they became a charge on the Parish ie. they had to apply to the overseer for financial/material help.

A wife took her husband's place of settlement. A Removal Order is just that:- removal from a Parish to the Parish which has legal settlement responsibility for him/her.

Samuel Pendle applied for Settlement in Bramford (he could have been living there for less than a year and became unemployed). The Parish overseers have refused his application (not wanting to pay out to keep him and his family) and have issued a Removal Order to return him and his family to Worlingworth - whose responibility it would be to support him.

In the 19th century both Bramford and Worlingworth were very small villages. Now, Bramford is like a subrub of the town of Ipswich. Worlingworth is still very much an isolated village in the middle of the countryside - 'in the stick's is the expression we use!