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 199 of 38322nd February 1781


Middx
&
Westmr.

to wit Sarah Palmer< no role > Aged about Twenty One years On her Oath says
She never was Married Rented House paid Taxes or ever lived
a hired yearly Servant for One Year Says her Father William Palmer< no role >
Rented and lived in a House in Change Court in the Parish of
Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex upwards of
four Years at the Yearly Rent of Eighteen Pounds hath quitted
the said House about four years ago since which time he hath
never Rented House or Tenement or 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
Chargeable to the said Parish She being Poor and unable to
Maintain the same when Born And further Says that One
Thomas Fowler< no role > otherwise Elson< no role > an Apprentice to One Mr. Paul a Glazier in
Water Lane Fleet Street London did beget such Bastard Child or
Children on her Body he having had Carnal knowledge of her
Body in One Mr. Jenkinsons House in New Exchange Court
in the Strand sometime the latter End of June or the beginning
of July last but the particular Day She does not now remember
at which time he got her with Child of the Child or Children
of which She is now Pregnant & that the said Thomas Fowler< no role >
& no other person did beget the same & that he is the true Father thereof

Sworn before me this 22nd Feby. 1781


Resworn the
12th. day of
[..]
Abrm Baley< no role >

her
Sarah [mark] Palmer< no role >
Mark




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