St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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22nd January 1787 - 28th February 1792

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Saint Clement Danes

Middlesex
&
Westminster}

(to wit) Elizth. Dellett< no role > on the behalf of Sarah
Briggs
< no role > her Child Aged upwards of 9 Years
upon her Oath Saith that she intermarried was
Chas. Briggs< no role > her late Husband about 16 Years
Ago at the parish Church of Saint Clement
Danes by same that she has had 5 Children by him
which one all dead but the said Sarah Briggs< no role >
Who hath never gained any Settlement in her own Right That her said Husband was bound Apprentice
and duly Served the whole of his time to William
Briggs
< no role > his Father of Bedford Court in the
Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the
County of Middlesex Waterman That her said
Husband since he served his said Apprenticeship
has never Rented any Tenement or Lodging of
Ten pounds a Year lived as a hired Yearly
servant paid Taxes or done any other Act to
gain any Subsequent Settlement And this
Examinant further Upon her [..] Oath
saith that she between 2 and 3 Years Ago she
intermarried with James Dellett< no role > at the Chapal [..]
[..] of Gosport in this parish of Alverstoke who is now living And that
during the time she Remained a Widow (re)
from the decease of her said Husband Chas Briggs< no role >
to the intermarriage with the said James
Dellett
< no role > she never Rented any Tenement or Lodging
of £10 a Year lived as a hired Yearly Servants
did any other Act Matter or thing to the best of her
knowledge information or belief whereby the said
Sarah Briggs< no role > her said Child might have gained any
other Settlement but by the Fathers Serving his
Apprenticeship as aforesaid that through Sickness &
misfortunes she this Examinant is Poor and unable to
maintain her said Childand hath therefore
been obliged to make application to the

Sworn this 6th
day of Octr. 1791
before




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