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 283 of 3832nd February 1782


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to wit Ann Flood< no role > aged about 19 Years on her Oath
says she never was married rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with James
Folla
< no role > a Glass Seller in the parish of St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex upwards of fifteen Mon [..]
at the Yearly Wages of four pounds hath quitted her
said Service about two Years ago since which times
she hath never lived as a Yearly hired Servant for One
Year and further on her Voluntary Oath Says 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 of St. Clement Danes (sh [..]
being poor & unable to maintain the same when been) and
further says that one James Mathews< no role > a Fisherman
who uses the Six Bells near the Church at Chiswick
is the Father thereof he having had carnal Knowledge of he [..]
Body for nine Months last past one of which times he
get her with Child of the Child or Children of which sh [..]
is now pregnant and that the said James Mathews< no role > [..]
and no other person did beget the same and that he with
real and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 2d. February
1782 before
Thos. Gilbert< no role > :

Ann Flood< no role >




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