St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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19th May 1792 - 6th January 1799

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Image 186 of 38917th May 1794


Before Birth
(Indexed & exd GJ)

Hassall Sarah< no role > (pregnant)

St Clement Danes May 19th 1794

Middlesex
and
Westminster }


Woman's
settlement in
St Clement
Danes -}


Pregnancy

(to wit) Sarah Hassall< no role > singlewoman aged
twenty seven years and upwards Upon Oath
saith that she never was Married that she never
lived as an hired yearly Servant or did any Act
Matter or thing whatsoever whereby to obtain any
legal settlement in her own right that she has been
informed and verily believes she is the legitimate
Daughter of Richard Hassell< no role > and his Wife, where
Name, to the best of this Deponent's recollection, was Elizabeth
that her said Father Rented and Resided in a House
in Butcher Row in the parish of St Clement Danes in
the said County for several years & that her said
Father died in that House and her Mother continued
in the said House for some time short time afterwards and
this Examinant saith that after her said Mother quitted
that House she never did any Act Matter or thing
whereby to obtain or become intitled unto any
Subsequent legal Settlement to the best of her this
Examinant's knowledge information or belief And
this Deponent saith that she has been informed and
[..] believes that she was born in the House [..]
in Butcher Row which her Father so Rented as aforesaid
And this Examinant Upon her Voluntary Oath
further saith that she is now pregnant with a Child or
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard
or Bastards and to become chargeable to the said




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