St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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30th May 1783 - 26th June 1784

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Image 57 of 1468th October 1783


By Servitude since her Husband Death

that she had 2 Children living to her
sd. Husband who had done no Act
to gain a settlemt for themselves
when she entered on such Service

Middlesex ss}

Alice Walker< no role > the widow of William Walker< no role >
deced maketh oath that her sd late husband has informed
her & which she believes to be true that he duly Served his
Apprenticeship with his Sisters husband whose name
was Lane & by Trade an Woolcomber in the City of
Canterbury but in What Parish there he never discover
to this Depont. That about twenty Six Years ago
She was lawfully Married to her sd husband at which
time he had a Pension allowed him from Chelsea College
as having heretofore belonged as a Soldier to the Thirty
third Regiment of Foot That her sd husband died
about nine Years ago in Christ Church Spittlefields
Middx & Soon after his Death she was hired & lived as a
hired Servant by the year at Certain wages by & with
John Hamilton< no role > Victualler in the Parish of St Botolph
witht Aldgate Middx & Continued in such Service for the
Space of four Years & upwds but that on her entring into
Such Service She had a Son named John Walker< no role > & a
Daur named Sarah Walker< no role > who had done no Act to
gain a settlemt for themselves nor for a Considerable
time after & this Depont has done no Act to gain a
Settlement for herself Since her Sd husband death then
as before mentioned nor Can She give any other
Account respecting her said late husbands
Settlement than as before is Set forth


Sworn this day of
October 1783 before
R Davies

The Mark of
Alice [mark] Walker< no role >




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