St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th January 1776 - 10th August 1776

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Image 13 of 11523rd February 1776


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Elizabeth Marks< no role > the Widow of William Marks< no role >
deced maketh oath that her said late husband rented a house of
Sixteen Pounds a Year in the Parish of Saint Botolph without
Aldgate in the sd County & was Charged to & Paid Poors Rates for
the same & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there That
he did not afterwards do any Act to gain a Settlement elsewhere
That about four months ago she this Deponent was married to
one Samuel Morris< no role > in the Parish Church belonging to the Sd Parish
who is lately gone away from her to places unknown That
she this Deponent since the Celebration of such marriage has
been informed by the Said Samuel Morris< no role > & by the Information
of other Credible Persons & which she believes to be true That at
the time of Such her marriage with the Sd Samuel Morris< no role > as
aforesd he the sd Samuel Morris< no role > had been lawfully married to
another Woman the which woman was then Actually living
And this Deponent Can give no Account respecting the Settlemt
of the Said Samuel Morris< no role > .


Sworn this 23d day of
February 1776 before
Geo. C. Smith< no role >

Eliz Markes< no role >




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