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

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Ann Harris< no role > This name instance is in set 960. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . upon Oath Saith she is the Wido . of
Wm. Harris< no role > to whom she was married at the Fleet
London on the 30th. of Janry upwds. of 13 Yrs. ago & by whom
she has one Child Wm.< no role > aged abt. 12 Yrs. and that she has been
further informed & believes her sd. late husband was born
in Ram Alley in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West Londn.
and, of his Settlemt. she can give us further Accot.

[..] Harrow School}

And this Examint. further upon her Voluntary Oath
Saith the sd. Wm. Harris< no role > went beyond Sea about two months
after the Birth of her first Child & dyednever returned
to England again but dyed abroad, without ever having
Seen this Examint. from the time he first Set Sail
and that about Eight Years ago she was delivered
of a male bastard Child in the house of Mr Wint
a Watch maker in Shoe Lane near Holborn in the
Parish of St. Andw. Holbn . London which was baptized
John< no role > & is still living and that Mr. Douglas
who was Waggon master General of the Army did beget
the sd. male bastard Child on her Body and the sd.
Douglas & no Man else is the true & real father thereof

Sworn Augt. 17th. 1753
before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The Mark of
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Ann Harris< no role >




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