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 227 of 3831st June 1781


Middx to wit

Jane Coleman< no role > This name instance is in set 578. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about Twenty One years on her Oath says
she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes says
her Father Peter Coleman< no role > was by trade a Rugg Weaver and
and Came from Gloucestershire but whither he ever served
any Apprenticeship she does not know neither does she know from
what Parish or Place in Gloucestershire he came from or when
her said Father settlement was and further on 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 Parish of Saint Clement Danes she being
Poor and Unable to maintain the same when born and
that One William Green< no role > a Newsman in Bear yard in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes did beget such Bastard
Child or Children on her Body he having had Carnal
knowledge of her Body at the Talbot Inn in the Strand
some time in the Month of October last but the particular
Days or times she cannot sett forth and at several different
times 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 William Green< no role > and no other Person did beget the same
and that He is the Real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 1st. day
of June 1781 before
R Butler

her
Jane [mark] Coleman< no role >
mark




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