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 220 of 38724th December 1767


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Margt. Mayberry< no role > aged about 19 Years Upon Oath
says she never was Married nor ever rented Ten Pounds
a Year paid Taxes was an Apprentice or lived a hired Yearly
Servant for one Year, says she was born in the Parish of
Bewdley in Worcestershire and can give as Account of the
Settlement of her Father or Mother, And further upon
her Voluntary Oath Says that on the 21st, day of November
last she was delivered of a female Bastard Child in the
House of Mr. Poole in St. Clements Lane in the Parish
of St. Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westminster which
hath been baptized Ann < no role > and is now living and chargeable
to the said Parish, says that Robert Duncomb< no role > who is
now an Apprentice to Mr. Dry a Carpenter & Undertaker
at Greenwich in Kent did beget the said female Bastard
Child on her Body, of which she was delivered as aforesaid
he having had carnal knowledge of her body sometime
in the Month of January 1767, and at several other times
afterwards, at one of which times he got her with Child of her
said female Bastard Child, and that the said Robert
Duncomb
< no role > and no other Person is the true & real father thereof

Sworn 24th. December 1767 .
before} [..]

Margaret Maybury< no role >




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