Touching the Birth of
a Bastard Child
Middlesex ss}
William Tatum< no role >
of
Petticoat Lane
White Chapel
in the sd County Chair maker
maketh
oath that about fifteen years ago he this Deponent
& one
Catherine Lee< no role >
who is now living came & lived
together & Cohabited as Man & wife & during such Cohabitat
the sd
Catherine Lee< no role >
was delivered of a Male Child (aged
now about Eleven years) in
Greenwood Court
in the
Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
in the sd County
& since baptized & registred in Aldgate Church
by the
name of
William Tatum< no role >
The which Child hath been
lately removed by a Pass order from the Parish of St
George
in the sd County by the name of
William Tatham< no role >
& hath issue no Act as yet to gain a settlement for himself
That he this Depont has not the least Doubt but that he is
the Father of the sd Child That the said Child is a Bastard
by reason that he this Depont. & the Mother of the Sd Child
was not Married till about two years after the birth
of such Child
Sworn this.20.day
of August 1783
before
R Davies
The Mark of
William [mark] Tatum< no role >