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 117 of 38331st January 1780


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to wit Alice Stidaway < no role > Aged about Twenty five Years On her Oath
says She never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes say
She lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr. Mason a
Butcher at Abergavenny South Wales in the County of Mon [..]
Upwards of One Year at the Yearly Wages of Four Pounds
hath quitted her said Service about Six Years ago since
which time She hat gained no other Subsequent Settlement
And further on her Voluntary Oath says that on the 17th. day
January Instant She was delivered of a Female Bastard
Child in the House of Mr. Burke in Wych Street in the Parish
of Saint Clement Danes which is intended to be baptized
Elizabeth< no role > and is become Chargeable to the same she being Poor
And Unable to Maintain the same [..] and that One Edw [..]
Edwards
< no role > late a Waiter at the Oxford Coffee House in the St [..]
And who now lodges Opposite a Coal Shed in Exeter Street
had Carnal knowledge of her Body at the Crown Eating Hous [..]
in Princes Street facing the Mansion House in the City of London
the latter End of March 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 was so delivered And that the said
Edwards Edwards< no role > and no other person did beget the same &
that he is the Rent & true Father thereof


Sworn this 31st. day of
Janry. 1780 before
Wm. Kitchiner< no role >

her
Alice [mark] Stidaway< no role >
Mark




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