St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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3rd November 1742 - 15th October 1745

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Image 198 of 39128th May 1744


Middx


Rebecca Dighton< no role > aged 28 Years & upwards upon
her Oath saith that she intermarried with her present
Husband Richd. Dighton< no role > aged 32 Years & upwards on
the 18th. Day of December 1740 at the Fleet London
that the sd. Richd. Dighton< no role > was bound an Aprentice
to & Served 15 Months the first Part of his
Apprentiship with Mr. Thos. Keene< no role > in Essex Street
in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County
of Middx & at the End of the sd. 15 Months went
away from his sd. Master & was never Assigned over
to any other Person whatever that he never rented
ten pounds a Year paid Parish Taxes lived with any
Person as a Yearly hired Servant for one Year or
otherwise gained a Settlemt. in any other Place
to her knowledge or beleife that she hath two Children
by the sd. Richd. Dighton< no role > (to wit) Richd. Richd. David Keene< no role >
aged 2 Years & upwards & a Male Child aged 5 Weeks
yett unbaptized that her sd. Husband absconds
from her & she being Poor is not able to maintain
herself & Children

Sworne 28th. May
1744 before} Wm: Jones< no role >

Rebecca Dighton< no role >




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