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 115 of 3879th December 1766


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Mary Perry< no role > This name instance is in set 3643644479. aged about 38 Years Upon Oath
says she is the Widow of John Perry< no role > who has been
dead upwards of five Years, says her said husband
Rented a house in St. Clements Lane in the Parish
of St. Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr
of the Yearly Rent of fifteen Pounds for five Years
or thereabouts and after he quitted same never
Rented House or paid Taxes to this Examinants
knowledge or belief, says she has not since her
said husbands death 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 or are 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 John Bell< no role > a Pensioner
in Greenwich hospital had carnal knowledge of her
Body sometime about the Middle of April last 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 John Bell< no role >
and no other Person did beget the same.

Sworn the 9th. Decr. 1766 .
before} Paul Vaillant< no role >

Mary Perry< no role > This name instance is in set 3644479.




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