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 220 of 3735th November 1774


Middlesex
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Mary Webber< no role > Aged about Twenty Three 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 Wm. Webber< no role > Rented and
lived in a House known by the Sign of the Crown and
Septer without Northgate in the City of Exeter for sevl.
Years at the Yearly Rent of Twenty pounds and that
this Examinant never gained any other Subsequent
Settlement And further Says that on the fourteenth day
of October last she was delivered of a Male Bastard
Child in the House of Mr. Brickletons in Ogden Court Wych
Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes which has since
been baptized by the Name of Willia< no role > and is become
Chargable to the same she being poor and unable to
Maintain the said Child Says that one Logan Henderson< no role >
a Lieutenant on half pay as she believes and who now
lives at Mr. Slades a potter in Copperas Lane Deptford
or at Mr. Ervin near Black Fryer Bridge is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
at his Lodgings in Bride Lane Court Fleet Street sometime
in January last the particular Day she does not now
remember and at sevl. different times afterwards at one
of Which times he got her with Child of the Male Bastard
Child of which she was so delivered as aforesaid and that
the said Logan Henderson< no role > & no other person did beget the
same and that he is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 5th. day
of Novr. 1774 before
W Addington

Mary Webber< no role >




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