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

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Sarah Boswell< no role > This name instance is in set 950. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 30 years upon Oath saith
she never was married and that about nine years ago she was
hired to live with Mr Coles a Perukemaker in Beaufort Buildings
in the parish of St Clemt. Danes in the County of Middlesex at the
yearly Wages of Four pounds & lived with Mr Coles in Beaufort
Buildings afsd. under that hiring & agreement upwards of one Year
and that she has not since she quitted her sd. service rented
ten pounds a Year paid Parish taxes or lived a Yearly Servant for
one year and this Examinant further upon her Voluntary Oath saith
she is pregnant with Child or Children which is likely to be born
a bastard or bastards & to become Chargeable to the afsd. parish
of St Clement Danes she being Poor and unable to maintain the
same when born and that Peter Conn< no role > a Taylor did beget the sd.
Bastard Child or Children on her body the sd. Peter Conn having
had carnal knowledge of this Examinant in the month of march
last & at several other times since at one of which times or
he got her with Child of the bastard Child or Children with which
she is now & pregnant and that the said Peter Conn and no other
person is the true and real father thereof

Sworn Octr. 26th
1753 before } Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The Mark of
[mark]
Sarh. Boswell< no role >

Peter Conn< no role > was married on the 3d. Novr. 1753
at the Fleet London
to the above Sarah Boswell< no role > ; he was bound out
by the parish of Emerton Bucks to Saml.
Brouton
< no role > a Taylor at Kettering in Northans
& after having lived wth. him 79th. he Ealisted [..]
the Kings Service & never was assigned over
nor ever rented ten pounds a Year or paid
parish taxes or lived a Yearly Servt. for one year.




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