St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th October 1772 - 17th May 1776

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Image 47 of 3739th December 1772


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to wit Mary Storey< no role > Aged about Twenty Eight
years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly
Servant with one Mr. James Brooks< no role > a Coal Merchant
in Houghton Street in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the Liberty of Westminster upwards of One
Year at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds hath quitted
her said Service in May last and hath not since she
quitted the same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived
hired Yearly Servant for One Year And further
upon her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant
Child or Children which is or are likely to be born
Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargable to [..]
said Parish of Saint Clement Danes she being Po [..]
and unable to maintain the same when born Says
that One Mark Thomas< no role > late a Footman to one Mr. Sh [..]
an Irish Gentlemen who ledged at her said Master
House had Carnal knowledge of her Body on Tuesday
the 21st. day of April last in the House of the said Mr.
Brooks and in the House of Lord Dlaraines and [..]
several different times Afterwards at one of which
times he get her with Child of the Child or Children
which she is now pregnant and that the said Makath
and no other person did beget the same and that he
the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 9th. day of
December 1772 before me
Tho Kynaston< no role >

her
Mary [mark] Storey< no role >
Mark

Witness
Petr Sidebotham< no role >




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