St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th October 1763 - 5th March 1766

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Image 268 of 3646th May 1765


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Sophia Bates< no role > aged about Twenty Years upon
Oath says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with
Mrs. Owen a Fishwoman in Church Lane in the
parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the Liberty
of Westmr. for two Years and Upwards at the Yearly
Wages of Three pounds and Twelve Shillings hath
quitted same about four Years and hath not since
Rented house paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly
Servant for one Year And further upon her
Voluntary Oath says she never was Married and
that on the 17th. Novr. 1763 she was delivered of
a female Bastard Child in the house of Mr. Spriggs
in Thomas's Street in the parish of St. Giles in the
fields in the County of Middlesex which was baptized
Margaret < no role > and is now living and that one William
Davis
< no role > a Bricklayer did beget the said female
Bastard Child on her Body of which she was
delivered as aforesaid

Sworn this 6th. May
1765 before} Barth: Hammond< no role >

The Mark of
[mark]
Sophia Bates< no role >

N: B: Mr. Vaillant sign'd the Exucon on the other
side by Mistake; should have sign'd this




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