St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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25th March 1752 - 27th December 1753

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Image 272 of 37810th July 1753


Middx
&
Westmr.}

Jane Smith< no role > upon Oath saith she is the widow
of John Smith< no role > who dyed about two Years ago
And this Examinant further upon her Voluntary Oath
saith she was delivered of a male (Shillborn) bastard
Child on Monday the 9th. of July Inst. at the Charges
of the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Clement Danes
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex
she being poor & unable to maintain herself in her
lying in And that Thomas Hartley< no role > a Smith did beget
the sd. male bastard Child on her body; the sd. Thos.
Hartley
< no role > having had carnal knowledge of this Examt.
thrice in the Month of November last at one of
which times he got her with Child of the [..]
Male bastard Child of which she was delivered as
aforesd. and that the sd. Thos. Hartley< no role > & no other
Person is the true & real father thereof

Sworn July 10th.
1753 : before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The Mark of
[mark]
Jane Smith< no role >




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