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 72 of 38321st September 1779


Middlesex

to wit Jane Simpson< no role > aged about Twenty Six Years on
her Oath says she never was Married Rented House Paid
Taxes or ever lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
says she at Present lives as a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr. Anderson a Taylor in Essex Street in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middx
and as so done for some time past 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 Chargeable to the said Parish
she being Poor and Unable to Maintain the same wher [..]
born and that one Mr. John Ruitz< no role > who lodges at the
Union Coffee House in the Strand had Carnal knowledge
of her Body at her Lodgings in Drury Lane on the 9th. day of May last
and at one other time 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 Mr. John Ruitz< no role >
& no other Person did beget the same and that he is the
real and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 21st. day
of Septr. 1779 before
M Addington

her
Jane [mark] Simpson< no role >
Mark




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