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 137 of 38827th May 1761


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Margaret Markwell< no role > aged about 24 Years
upon Oath saith she never was Married That she now
lives a hired Yearly Servant with Dr. Lawrence
in Essex Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middx and hath lived as such Three
Years at the Yearly Wages of Four pounds & ten shillings
for the first Year & Five pounds afterwards And
further 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 said Parish of St. Clement Danes
she being poor and unable to provide for the same
when Born And that William Kirk< no role > late a Footman
to the said Dr. Lawrence did beget such Child or
Children he having had Carnal Knowledge of her
Body in or about the Month of August One thousand
seven hundred and Sixty and once afterwards at
One of which times he got her with Child of the
Child or Children with which she is now pregnant

Sworn the 27th: day of
May 1761 Before} Barth: Hammond< no role >

Margat Markewill< no role >




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