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 395 of 39518th October 1757


Mary Welch< no role > This name instance is in set 1060. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged abt. 24 years upon Oath [..]
Intermarried with Wm. Welch< no role > (who is now at Sea) at the Parish Church of
Falmouth in Cornwall abt. 9 years sincethatsays he said
Husband who lift her in abt. afortnight ofter her Mamagix [..] never hat [..] was born in Ireland and & that She Cannots give any Act.
of the Settlement of her sd. Husband Says before her Intermarried
with the said Wm. [..] she lived a timed yearly Servant [..]
of a year with one Robt. Ambleton< no role > in the Parish of Falmouth
in the County of Cornwall aforesaid at the yearly Wages of
£2..10s-& hath quitted her sd. Service abt. 6 years since & further
upon her Voluntary Oath says She is pregant with Child or
Childn. which is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastard
& to become Chargeable to the Parish of St. Clemt. Danes wher [..]
She now lodgeth She being noon & unable to Maintain the same when ber & that one Geo: Cummings< no role > This name instance is in set 2031. a Linnendr of
who lives in the Old Cher [..] in the City of London did beget the said Bastard Child or
Childn. on her Body he the said Geo: Cummings< no role > has [..]
had Carnal Knowledge of this Examinants Body at [..]
House of Mr. Walter Butler< no role > in Devereux Court in the
Parish [..] saint Clement Danes in the Month of February last at which time
got her with Child of the Bastard Child or Childn. of a [..]
she is now Pregnant And that he the said Geo: Comming
& no other Person is the true real & [..] Father thereof
Middx to wit

Sworn the 18th day
of October 1756 before Barth: Hammond< no role >

The
Mark [mark] of
Mary Welch< no role >




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