St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th May 1776 - 15th March 1779

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Image 85 of 3688th October 1776


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&
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Mary Snape< no role > Aged about Twenty 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 Harding Snape< no role > Rents and lives in a House in
Water Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes but
what Rent he pays for the same she Cannot say And
further upon her Oath Says that on the 19th. day of Sepr.
last she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the
Workhouse belonging to the said Parish which has since
been baptized by the Name of Samuel< no role > and is become
Chargable to the same And that one Saml. Risdon< no role > a
Drummer in the first Regiment of Guards in the second
Batillion is the Father thereof he having had Carnal
knowledge of her Body the latter end of Decr. last 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
Samuel Risdon< no role > and no other person did beget the same
and that he is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 8th. day
of Octr. 1776 before
R Butler

Mary Snape< no role >




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