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 314 of 36817th November 1778


Middlesex

to wit Ann Tillier< no role > aged about Thirty Seven Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or
paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one
Charles Bidolph< no role > Esqr . at Burton Park in the Parish of Petworth
in the County of Sussex upwards of Two Years at the Yearly
Wages of five pounds hath quitted her said Service upwards of
Ten Years ago since which time she hath never lived a hired
Yearly Servant for one Year or otherwise gained any 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 Colonel Ryatt is the
Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
at his the said Mr. Ryatts Lodgings in St Martins Street
upwards of Three Years ago and at several 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
Colonel Ryatt and no other person did beget the same and
that he is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 17th. day
of Novr. 1778 before
R Butler

Ann Tillier< no role >




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