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 95 of 3689th November 1776


Middx
&
Westmr.}

Elizth. Walker< no role > aged about 22 Years on her Oath says
she never was marrd. Rented house paid Taxes or lived
a hired yearly Servant for one Year says her Father
Robt. Walker< no role > Rented and lived in a House in Bennetts Court
in the Psh of St Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr .
for sevl. Years at the yearly Rent of 8 Guineas & paid Land
Tax due for the same and furr. upon her Voluntary Oath
says she is pregnant with Child or Childn. wch. is or are
likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards & to become chargeable
to the said Parish she being poor & unable to maintain the
same when born says that one Willm. Ogle< no role > This name instance is in set 2109. a late Major
in a Regiment but in what Regiment she does not know & who
late lived at Mrs. Bacons near the Admiralty Spring
Gardens and who now uses as she believes Mary bone
Coffee house has had carnal knowledge of her Body at
Different times for upwards of two Years last past at
Diffr. Lodgings both in Town and Country at one of which
he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
she is now pregnant and that the sd. Major Wm. Ogle< no role >
& no other person did beget the same and that he is
the real and true father thereof


Sworn this 9th.
Day of Novr. 1776
M Addington.

her
Elizth. [mark] Walker< no role >
Mark.




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