St Clement Dane
July 1st 1793
Middlesex
and
Westminster
}
St Giles
in the fields
(to wit)
Mary Ballard< no role >
(Wife of
Edward
Ballard< no role >
a private Soldier in Colonel Johnson's
Company of the third Regiment of Fleet Guards
now abroad) aged thirty years and upwards Upon
Oath saith that she was Married to her
present
said Husband
Edward Ballard< no role >
at the parish
Church of St Andrew Holborn
London on or about
the seventh day of March 1791 (by Banns) that her said Husband hath informed which she
believes to be true that previous thereto her said Husband served his
Apprenticeship under Indenture with Mr.
John Dearne< no role >
Shoemaker
that during the last three Months thereof had
lodged
the three last Monthswith his said
Master at No 8 in King Street
Drury Lane
in the parish of St Giles in the Fields
in the
said County of Middlesex
and saith that he hath never since
the expiration of his Apprenticeship
he hath
done any Act Matter or thing whatsoever whereby
to obtain any subsequent legal to the best of
this Examinant's knowledge information or belief
And this Examinant further saith that She hath
one Child by her said Husband
&now living with
her namely
Edward< no role >
born on
theor about the
29th Day of December 1791 And that She is Poor
distressed and unable to maintain herself without
assistance
Sworn the fist day of July 1793
before Us} W Addington Edwd: Naish< no role >
Mary Ballard< no role >