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 325 of 3832nd August 1782


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Margt. Webster< no role > This name instance is in set 1239. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about 18 years on her Oath says she
never was married Rented House paid Taxes says she
lived a hired yearly Servant with Messrs.Cooper & Miller Pawnbroker
in Wych Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes for fifteen
Months at the yearly Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her
said Service this day which time she hath gained no other
Settlemt. And further on her Voluntary Oath says she n [..]
pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely to be
Born a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargable
to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes she Being Poor and unable to maintain the same when Bond and further says that one Thos.
Sowerby
< no role > an Apprentice to one Mr. Miller partner with the on [..]
Mr. Cooper of wych Street in the said Parish of St. Clement
Danes is the father thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge
of her Body at her late Masters House in Wych Street the la [..]
end of Decr. last but the Particular day she does not now
remember & at sevl. Different times afterwards aton [..]
of which times he got her with Child of the Child or Children
of which she is now Pregnant and that the said Thomas
Sowerby
< no role > & no other person did Beget the same & that he
the real & True Father thereof


Sworn this 2d. day of
August 1782 before
R Butler

her
Margt. [mark] Webster< no role >
Mark




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