St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
BA | EP

30th May 1783 - 26th June 1784

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: GLBAEP103200034

Image 34 of 14623rd July 1783


Middlesex ss

Elizabeth Trevillian< no role > maketh oath that
her late Father George Trevillian< no role > mariner deced was
born in Penzance in the County of Cornwall as she has
been often informed by her Aunt Jane Trevillian< no role > her said
Fathers Sister & which this Depont believes to be true
& this Depont can give no othr Account respectg her sd Fathers
Settlement That She this Depont in any years ago was hired
& lived as a hired Servant by & with one Joseph Sherwood< no role > a
Weaver in the Parish of St Botolph with Aldgate in the sd
County of Middx & (where she was born) & Continued in such service
for about Six Months when she was discharged from & left the
same And after having been absent for many months She
was a second time hired by the Sd Joseph Sherwood< no role > as his
Servant but did not Continue in such service under such
last mentioned hiring for more than five Months So
that According to the best of her now recollection She
this Depont did not Continue in the sd Joseph Sherwood< no role > s
Service even under such different hirings & Service for
the Space of a year That she this Depont in the year
1749 was Married at the Fleet to one Francis Dickins< no role >
an Ivory Combemaker & after living with him for some years
he went with this Depont to Birmingham in Warwickshire
where to her great Surprize she found that the sd Francis
Dickins
< no role > had been lawfully married many years before
this Deponts Marriage to Anothr Woman who was then
living And this Depont Saith that she hath done no Act
to gain a settlement in her own right than as before is set forth


Sworn this 23 day
of July 1783 before
R Davies

The Mark of
Elizabeth [mark] Trevillian< no role >

To her Fathers Settlemt. by Birth

She having Married a Man who
had a Wife then living




View as XML