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 277 of 36419th June 1765


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Joannah Mirfield< no role > aged about 21 Years upon
Oath says she was never Married and that she served
Seven Years Apprenticeship with Mrs. Chandler a
Bookbinder in little Shire Lane in the Parish of
St. Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr. within
the County of Middlesex and never Rented house
paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for
One Year 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 Saint
Clement Danes she being poor and Unable to
Maintain the same when Born says that Robt.
Taylor
< no role > a Bookbinder did beget the said Bastard
Child or Children on her body with which she is
now pregnant he having had carnal knowledge
of her body in the Month of September 1764 and
at several other times since at One of which
times he got her with Child of the said Bastard
Child or Children and that the said Robt. Taylor< no role >
and no other Person did beget the same

Sworn June 19th. 1765
Before} Paul Vaillant< no role >

The Mark of
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Joannah Mirfield< no role >




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