St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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12th October 1768 - 21st October 1772

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Image 82 of 4047th November 1769


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Mary Wright< no role > Aged about Twenty four Years on
her Oath Says she never was married and that she
lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mrs. Lucy Fletcher< no role >
at Northaw in the Parish of St. Albans in the County
of Hertford for one Year and half at the Yearly Wages
of forty Shillings hath quitted her said Service 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 is
Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
chargable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of Westminster where she now ledges she being poor and unable to maintain the same whe [..]
born Says that one Joseph Garnham< no role > a Coachman
belonging to the Mortlake Stage Coach had Carnal
Knowledge of her Body on the Tenth day of May last
in the House of Mr. Ashley at the Talbot in the Strand and
at several Different times afterwards at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of
which she is now Pregnant as aforesaid And that the
said Joseph Garnham< no role > and no other person did beget
the same and that he is the real and true father thereof

Sworn this 7th. day of
Novr. 1769 before me} Thos. Kynaston< no role >

Mary Wright< no role >




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