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 307 of 36827th October 1778


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to wit Diana Reed< no role > This name instance is in set 685. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about 19 Years on her Oath Says
she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes Says
she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr. Waters an
Attorney in Clements Inn in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the Liberty of Westmr . for one Year and an half
at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds hath quitted her said
Service about Two Years ago since which time she hath
gained no other Subsequent Settlement And further upon
her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards and to become Chargable to the said Parish
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
born And that one Mathew Coulthurst< no role > an Attorney at
No. 5 in the Inner Temple Lane is the Father thereof he
having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body at his the said Mr.
Coulthurst's Chambers in the Month of March last but 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 Child or Children of which she is
now pregnant and that the said Mathew Coulthurst< no role > and
no other person did beget the same and that he is the
real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 27th. day
of October 1778 before
Abrm Baley< no role >

Diana Reed< no role >




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