Johnson, James (Bedale)

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Dates 1732
Location Bedale
Vocation Vagrant
Place of Birth East Lothian
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source North Yorkshire County Record Office, Quarter Session Bundles, QSB/1733

20 years old. From 'Eadlefagon', East Lothian. Formerly a servant in East Lothian, now a drover in the service of George Macfarlane in Scotland. Returning from Faith's Fair in London approximately five months previously, he suffered a 'quotidian ague', and was forced to beg from Sleaford, Lincolnshire to Bedale.