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 221 of 38319th May 1781


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to wit Elizabeth Ford< no role > aged about Twenty Nine years on her Oath says
she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes says she
lived a Hired yearly Servant with Mr. Aylmer in Bowell
Court in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County
of Middlesex for One year at the yearly Wages of Nine Pounds
hath quitted her said Service about four Months ago since
which time she hath gained no other settlement And further
on her Voluntary Oath says [..] that on the 9th. day of April
Last she was Delivered of a Male Bastard Child in a
Hackney Coach in Wych Street in the said Parish of Saint
Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westminster which hath since
been Baptized by the Name of William< no role > and is now Chargeable
to the said Parish she being Poor and Unable to Maintain
the same and further says that One Joseph Rue< no role > late a
Footman to her said Master did beget such Bastard Child
on her Body in her said masters House and that the said
Jos: Rue< no role > and no other Person did beget the same and that
He is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 19th day of
May 1781 before
Helen Wm Kitchiner< no role >

her
Elizth. [mark] Ford< no role >
Mark




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