St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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6th March 1766 - 23rd May 1769

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Image 33 of 3876th March 1766


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Hannah Allen< no role > aged about 26 Years
upon Oath says she was never Married and that she
lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. John Christian< no role > Long
in Great Shire Lane in the Parish of St. Clement
Danes in the Liberty of Westminster for One Year
and Upwards at the Yearly Wages of Four Pounds and
Quitted her said Service in May 1765 since when
she hath not Rented house or paid Taxes

And further upon her Voluntary Oath says
she is pregnant with Child or Children which is or
are 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, says that Wm: Darwell< no role > who is
Turnkey at the Gatehouse Prison in Westminister
had carnal knowledge of her Body in the Month of
April 1765, and at several 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 the said Wm: Darwell< no role > and no other Person
did beget the same.

Sworn March 7th. 1766,
before} Fran Cary< no role > .

Hannah Allen< no role >




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