St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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14th December 1750 - 21st March 1752

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Image 274 of 28523rd June 1752


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Mary Todd< no role > This name instance is in set 974. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged upwds. of 21 Years upon Oath saith
she never was married nor ever rented ten pounds a Year
paid Parish Taxes or lived a Yearly Servant for one
Year together; that her father William Todd< no role > deceased
rented a Farm in Wyesgate in the Parish of St. John at
Newcastle upon Tyne in the County of Northamberland
of the Yearly Rent of Ten pounds and upwards and
lived therein Sevl. Years and there dyed and further
upon her Voluntary Oath saith she was delivered of
a female bastard Child on the 28th. of Janry last (since
baptized Ann< no role > ) [..] at the Parish Nurses of St Clement
Danes Middx at the Charge of the Inhabitants of the
Sd. Parish and that William Dennis< no role > Upholsterer did
beget the said female bastard Child on her Body the sd.
William Dennis< no role > [..] having had carnal Knowledge of this
Examinant Several times in April & May last at one
of which times he got her with Child of the sd. female
Bastard Child of which she was delivered as aforesd. &
that the sd. Wm. Dennis< no role > [..] & no other person is the true &
real father thereof


Sworn March
6th. 1752 before
Fran: Bedwell< no role > Tho: Lane< no role >

The Mark
[mark]
of Mary Todd< no role >

Re'sworn June 23d. 1752
the name of Dennison< no role >
being first altered to
that of Dennis-before} [..]




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