St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th July 1755 - 24th August 1757

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Image 94 of 39513th December 1755


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Mary Batfield< no role > This name instance is in set 388. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about Twenty four Years upon Oath
Says She never was married That She Lived a hired Yearly
Servant with One Mr. Geo: Shaw< no role > at the King's Arms in
Chapel Street Red Lyon Square in the Parish of St.
Andrew Holborn above Bars in the County of Middx for Three
years and upwards At the Yearly Wages of £3. and hath
quitted her said Service upwards of Four years and hath not
since Lived with any Person as a hired Yearly Servt. for One
Year And farther upon her Voluntary Oath Says She is now
Pregnant with Child or Children which is likely to be [..]
Born a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargeable to the
Parish of St. Clemt. Danes where she now Lodges, She being
Poor and unable to Maintain the Same when Born, And that One
John Rafes< no role > a Taylor Lodging at Mr. Geo: Marcers< no role > in New Court
Cary Street in the sd. Parish of St. Clemt. Danes Did begett the sd.
Bastard Child or Children on her Body The sd. John Rafes< no role > having
had Carnal knowledge of this Examinant in the Month of March or
April last and at several other times since in his the sd. John
Rafes Appartmt. in New Court aforesd. At One of wch. times he
get her wth. Child of the Child or Children which she is now
Pregnant And that the sd. John Rafes and no other Person
is the true and Real Father thereof.

Sworn the 13th. Day of
Decr. 1755 . before} Theodr. Sydenham< no role >

The Mark of
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Mary Batfield< no role >




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