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 310 of 4044th January 1772


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to wit Elizth. Billing< no role > Aged about Twenty one Years
on her Oath Says she is the Widow of Zachariah
Billing
< no role > who has been dead about Two Years and with
whom she Intermarried at the Parish Church of Oswestry
in the County of Salop about four Years ago Says her said
late Husband served Seven Years Apprenticeship with
one Edward Edwards< no role > a Carpenter in the Parish of
Llhanablodwell in the said County of Salop as her said
Husband has often Informed her and which Information
she verily believes to be true and Says that since her late
Husbands Death she never 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 St. Clement Danes where she now lodges
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
born Says that one William Cave< no role > a Brazier in Watling
Street London had Carnal Knowledge of her Body on or
about the Twenty Seventh day of April June last past 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 of sd. and that the said
Wm. Cave< no role > &no Other person did beget the same and
that he is the real & true Father thereof

Sworn this 30th. day
of Decr. 1771 before} [..]

Resworn this 4th. day
of January 1772 before}

her
Elizth. [mark] Billing< no role >
Mark




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