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 312 of 38322nd May 1782


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to Wit Bridgett Field< no role > This name instance is in set 592. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about Twenty Years on her Oath says
she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes Says
she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Vincent at the
Punch Bowl in Hemlock Court in the parish of St. Clements
Danes in the liberty of Westminster for Sixteen Months at the
Yearly Wages of Four pounds Hath quitted her said service
about Three Years ago since which time she hath gained no
Other Settlement either by Renting House paying Taxes or
living a hired Yearly Servant for One Year And further
on her Oath says that on the 13th. day January last she was
delivered of a Female Bastard Child in the Workhouse
belonging to the said parish of St. Clement Danes which
hath since been baptized by the Name of Ann< no role > and is now
Chargeable to the said Parish And further that One Wm.
Stent
< no role > a Shoemaker did beget such Bastard Child on her
body sometime in April 1781 and at Sevl. Different times
afterwards at One of Which times he got her with Child of
the Female Bastard Child of Which she was so delivered
as aforesaid and that the said Wm. Stent< no role > & no other person
did beget the same and that he is the real & True father
thereof.


Sworn this 22d. day
of May 1782 Before
Sampn Wright< no role > R Butler

her
Bridgett [mark] Field< no role >
Mark




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