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 123 of 40416th February 1770


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Catherine Jones< no role > aged about Twenty Nine Years
on her Oath Says she never was married nor ever
rented House or paid Taxes Says she lived a Hired
Yearly Servant with John Goodwin< no role > a Peruke maker and
Hair Cutter in the Strand in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex upwards of one Year
and an half at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds hath
quitted her said Service upwards of Eight Months and
hath not since she quitted the same ever 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 Saint Clement Danes she being Poor
and unable to maintain the same when born Says that one
John Flack< no role > a Drummer in the Coldstream Regiment in Col
Wilsons Company now quartered in the Tower had Carnal
Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month of May last
at the House of Mr. Williams who Keeps a Coal Shed in Saint
Catherines and at sevl. diferent times afterwards at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
she is now Pregnant and that the said John Flack< no role > and no
other person did beget the same

Sworn this 16th. day of
February 1770 before me} [..]

her
Catherine [mark] Jones< no role >
Mark

Witness
Petr. Sidebotham< no role >




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