i list, for those with English ancestry, the Yesterdays site (link below) has been updated with hundreds of Removal Order records. When a person wanted to move parishes, maybe to find work, he took with him a Settlement Certificate (also listed on site) from the parish he was leaving which stated on it, that should the bearer fall on hard times and become a burden "chargeable" to his new parish, the old one would take him/them back. If that situation arose a Removal Order was made. It gives names and for children basically their ages, the place to where they were being removed to. Occasionally a Suspended Order was made, because either someone was to sick to be removed. Sometimes in those circumstances the order notes that the person is "dead" so was never removed. However a "bill" for charges in looking after him/them would be sent to the parish he should have be sent back to. Women who had recently given birth were given four weeks to "recover". Another interesting note is that the Constable removing vagrants was to carry two vagrants upon one horse, so says a document c.1759. mike. -- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm