St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th June 1757 - 5th October 1763

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Image 95 of 38828th January 1761


Middx.


Elizth. Knolson< no role > This name instance is in set 464. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged abt. Years lodging
in Milford Lane in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middx, Upon Oath says she never
was Married and that she lived a hired Yearly
Servant with Wm: Lewis< no role > This name instance is in set 2080. at the Black Bull in
Milford Lane in the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
Victualler for two Years and Upwards at the
Yearly Wages of Five Pounds and Quitted that
Service just before Christmas 1760. And further
Upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant
with Child or Children which is likely to be born
a Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable
to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes she
being Poor and unable to Maintain the same
when Born And that the abovenamed Wm: Lewis< no role >
did beget such Bastard Child or Children or her
Body he having had carnal knowledge of her
Body in the Month of July 1760 and at sevl.
other times since at one of which times he
got her with Child of the Child or Children with
which she is now pregnant and that he the sd.
Wm: Lewis< no role > & no other Person did beget the same

Sworn the 28th.
January 1761 . before}




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