Middlesex
to wit.

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The Examination of Elizabeth Cooke< no role > This name instance is in set 453. This set is in the group(s): MothersPS . single
Woman taken on Oath before in Samuel Wegg< no role >
Esqr one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in & for the said County this thirty first Day of
March. 1760

Who saith that she is about thirty two years of Age &
was born in the Parish of Billericay in the County of
Essex , that her Mother died when she was very young, &
she was then taken & brought up by one Mary Baldock< no role >
who travell'd about the Country, as a Hawken & Pedlar
& sometimes, beg'd for her living, with whom she continued
till the said Mary Baldock< no role > died, which was about six
year age at Sitting bourn in Rent, from which time
she wandered about, chiefly in Kent, selling sometimes
a few Pins & Laces but mostly maintiaining herself
by begging, till about a year & half age she became
acquainted, at Setting bourn aforesaid, with one John
Williams< no role > , who went about the County mending Chair
Bottons, with whom she cohabited about a year, chiefly
in Kent, hill Christmas last, when they came together
to London to try Rushes, where he was pressed & carried
aboard a Tender, that she was them with Child by the
said Williams, & being so parted from him, she went
from London & wandered through Bucking hamshire
Birkshire & Willshire & back again towards London
& during all that time supported herself entirely by
begging, that on Wednesday the 12th. of thes Instent March
about four o' Clock in the Afternoon she came to Turnka [..]
green or the Parish of Chiswick in the said County of
Middlesex , where she was taken very ill in labour &
having no Money or any other Necessaries, enquired
a Parish Officer, & was directed to the Workhouse of the
said Parish, where she desired Admittance of the
Mistress, but she refused her & sent for the Beadle who
came & sent for a Midwife, who examined her in the
Yard of the said Workhouse , & declared she was [..]
in Labour, but she insisting she was & that she is
not able to go further the Beadle ordered two of the