St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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31st August 1776 - 10th December 1777

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Image 58 of 11622nd February 1777


Middlesex ss}

Peter Wright< no role > maketh oath That divers years
ago he rented a house at the yearly Rent of Ten Guineas in
Snows Fields in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey
in the County of Surrey & Continued in the possion thereof for
half year & upwards & paid rent for the Same & by means
there of gained a legal Settlement there That he has not Since
rent a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards or Served any
Parish office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or done any
act to gain a Subsequent Settlement That he hath a wife name.
Mary < no role > & three children namely Dorothy < no role > aged about eight years
Peter < no role > aged about four years & Eleanor < no role > aged about eight
months the lawful Issue of this Deponent by his said wife
to whom he was lawfully married

Sworn this 21 day
of Febry 1777 before}

The Mark of
Peter [mark] wright< no role >

Middlesex ss}

Ann Beavis< no role > the wife of John Beavis< no role > maketh
oath that her said husband is late by gone away from her to
places unknown & left her destitute of Support That She this Depont
cannot set forth or give any account respecting the Settlement of
her said husband never having received any information relative
there to That She this Deponent divers years ago & While a Single
woman was hired & lived as a hired Servant by the year at Certain
wages by & with one Robert Grant< no role > in Langley Street near Long
Acre in the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields Westmr in the
County of Middlesex Sweep washer & Continued in Such Service
there for the Space of three years & half & by means thereof gained
a legal Settlement there That She has not Since lived as a hired
Servant for a year elsewhere or done any act to gain another
Settlement save what she has Acquired by marriage with her said
husband whole Settlement is not known to her.


Sworn this. 22. day
of February 1777 before
Parkr Rowlands< no role > Sam Wood< no role >

The Mark of
Ann [mark] Beavis< no role >




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