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 325 of 36822nd December 1778


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to wit Catherine Davis< no role > Aged about Twenty Seven
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes says she lived as a hired Yearly
Servant with one Gustavus Brandor< no role > Esqr . in Crown
Street in the Parish of St. Margaretts Westmr . upwards
of Six Years at the Yearly Wages of Eleven pounds Eleven
Shillings hath quitted her Said Service upwards of Two
Years ago since which time she hath gained on 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 Parish of Saint Martin in the
Fields she being poor and unable to maintain the same
when born And that one Robert Boycott< no role > Gentleman did
beget such Bastard Child or Children on her Body he
having had Carnal Knowledge thereof in a house near
Charing Cross the 29th. day of March last and at one other
time afterwards and believes it was at the same house
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 Robert Boycot< no role > & no other person did beget the same
and that he is the real and true Father thereof

Sworn this 22d. day
of Decr. 1778 before.} [..]

Catharine Davis< no role >




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