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Before Birth
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7th June 1793
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Settlement
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Pregnant
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Reputed Father
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(to wit)
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Ann Britain
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aged
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thirty years or thereabouts Upon Oath saith
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that she never was Married, that she lived
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as an hired yearly Servant with Mr Price in
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Blackmoon Street
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in the parish of
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Saint
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in the
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County of Middlesex
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for about two years,
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at the annual Wages of Seven Guineas, that
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she quitted that service about two years ago and
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hath not done any Act Matter or thing whatsoever
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since, whereby to obtain any subsequent legal
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Settlement to the best of this Deponent's knowledge or belief
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And this Examinant Upon her voluntary Oath
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further saith that She is now pregnant with a
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Child or Children which is or are likely to be
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born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
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chargeable to the said parish of Saint Clement
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Danes, that
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Thomas Wankling
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who
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now does or lately did Work as
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Journeyman
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with
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Mr Jackson the Smith in Great
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Shire Lane
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liberty and County aforesaid with
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only real and true father of the Child or Children
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wherewith she is pregnant as aforesaid he having
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first had carnal knowledge of this Deponent's
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Body sometime in or about the Month of March
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last and at several times since at some or
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one of which times he did beget the said Child
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a Children thereon And that he and no one else is
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