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 206 of 3732nd September 1774


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Jane Besford< no role > Aged about Nineteen Years
on her Oath Says she never was married
Rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly
Servant for One Year Says her Father Francis
Besford
< no role > Rented and lived in a house for several Years
in Stanhope Street in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes at the Yearly Rent of Sixteen pounds and paid
Parish Taxes due for the same as her Mother has often
informed her and which Information she verily believes
to be true And further upon her Voluntary Oath says
that on Saturday the 6th day of Augt. last she was delived of
a Male Bastard Child and is now in the Work house belongg.
to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes which has since been baptized by the name of George< no role > and is now [..]
[..] chargable to the said Parish she being Poor
and unable to maintain the same Says that one George
Donadieu
< no role > a Midshipman at Mrs. Donadieu's in George
Street York Buildings is the Father thereof he having
had Carnal knowledge of her Body at a House (and as
she believes) at the Bagnio in St. Martins Lane the latter
End of Decr. last but the particular Day she does not
now remember at which time he got her with Child of
the Male Bastard Child of which she was so delivered
As aforesaid And that the said George Donadieu< no role > and no
Other person did beget the same and that she is the real
and true Father thereof


Sworn this 2d. day of
Septr. 1774 before
William Addington< no role >

her
Jane [mark] Besford< no role >
Mark




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