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 240 of 38321st July 1781


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to wit Ann Doughty< no role > Aged about Twenty One years on her
Oath says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she has lived a hired yearly Servant with Mr. Owen a
Taylor in Norfolk Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex upwards of One year at the yearly Wages of
Six pounds & where she at present lives 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
to become Chargeable to the said Parish (she being Poor and
unable to maintain the same when born) And further that one
John Millington< no role > a Servant to one Mr. Palmer a West India
merchant who now lives at No. 2 Park Street in the City of
Bristol did begot such Bastard Child or Children on her
Body he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body at having of women the Strand sometime
in the month of November last but the particular day she
does not now remember 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 John Millington< no role >
and no other person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 21st. day
of July 1781 before
Sampn Wright< no role >

Ann Doughty< no role >




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