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 286 of 38915th November 1796


Saint Clement Danes

Middlesex
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Catherine Roberts< no role > aged about
twenty three or twenty four
years upon her Oath saith that she never
was Married, that she never lived as an
hired yearly Servant for one Year in any
one Place or did any Act whereby to the best
of her Knowledge she may have gained
a Parochial Settlement in her own Right
And this Examinant saith that she is the
Legitimate Daughter of Joshua Roberts< no role > of
Clare Market in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex Potatoe
Dealer by Elizabeth< no role > his Wife and that the
said John Roberts< no role > hath Rented and lived in a
House of upwards of the Yearly Value of
Ten Pounds in Clare Market aforesaid for
four Years now past and still continues
to Reside Here and further this Examinant
upon her Voluntary Oath saith not she
is now pregnant with a Child Children
which is or are likely to be born a bastard
or Bastards and to be Chargeable to the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes aforesaid
and that John Foster< no role > of Long Lane [..]
Smithfield Plaisterer is the real and true
Father of Such Child or Children
whereof she this Examinant is to pregnant
he having had Carnal Knowledge of this
Examinants Body some time in or about
the Month of April last past and




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