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January 1796

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St. Anne Westminster Appellts.
agt.
St. Giles in the Fields Respondts.}
Settlement of Sarah Fowler< no role >

For the Respondts.
Please to consent that this Appeal be allowed, with the usual
maintenance of the Pauper from the date of the Order, 5 Weeks a 2s/612d/6d if Appellts. insist thereon

N.B. It has always been customary hitherto, in case of Appeal between
the abovementd Parishes for neither of them to require maintenance if ye other
butAppRespondts. are in doubt whether Appellts. will now not only depart from that
amicable principle, but attempt to procure Coststherefore it has been thought
proper to state the followg. facts

At the time of the Removal the Pauper Swore that her Father and
Mother were both dead, and she had been informed bya
Woman who brot. her use (and who she said was also dead) that she was born
in a House in Carlisle Street in Appellts. Parish; That she had been informed
but she could not tell by whom, that sher Father Served an Appprenticeship to a
Waterman at Hungerford Stairs but upon enquirytheof Persons who had known
all the Persons at these Stairs for more then 30 Years past no such fact could be
discoveredtherefore the Pauper was sent to Appellts. as her birth Settlemt.

It has since turned out that she is an Imposterthat her Father is living
& that she is a married Woman; but of these facts Respondts. had no means of being
informed - and upon being made acquainted with them, they offered to take the Pauper back

To Prove if necessary, that due enquiry was made after ye Paupers Father }
before its Removal, call Appellts. Beadle }
Jno. Wilkinson< no role >




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