St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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26th January 1779 - 29th March 1783

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Image 69 of 38311th September 1779


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to wit Mary Harris< no role > Aged about Twenty Seven Years
on her Oath says she never was Married Rented
House or paid Taxes says she lives as a hired Yearly
servant with Mr. Sherwin an Ingraver near Temple
Bar in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
County of Middlesex and as so done upwards of
Two Years at the Yearly Wages of Eight Pounds Ann
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 be
come Chargeable to the said Parish she being
Poor and unable to Maintain the same when
born and that one Stephen Newnham< no role > an apprentice
to her said Master and who now lodges at No 8
Mitre Court Fleet Street did beget such Bastard
Child or Children on her Body he having had
Carnal knowledge of her in her said Masters House
some time in the Month of January last but the
particular day she does not now remember and
at several different times afterwards at one
of which times he got her with Child of the Child
or Children of which she in now Pregnant and
that the said Stephen Newnham< no role > and no other
person did beget the same and that he in the
real and true Father thereof

Sworn this 11th. day
of Septr. 1779 before} [..]

Mary Harris< no role >




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