| Examination Text | The Examination of Joanna Wilmot taken this 25th day of July in the year 1780. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 28 years of age, that she never was married, that she was a yearly hired servant to Lady Clifford in Spring Gardens in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of two years and upwards all at one time at the yearly wages of 10 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about one month ago, And this Examinant on her oath further saith that she was on the 12th Day of August in the year 1776 delivered at the house of John Smith in the Parish of Ash Prington in the County of Devon of a Male bastard child (since christened William) yet living and is likely to become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that William Northover a Gentleman's Servant to be heard of at Mr [?] a Hair Dresser in Charles Court in Charles Street by St. James's Square did beget on her body the said Male bastard child, and that he the said William Northover is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year first above written before William Hyde, Jacob Fletcher. |
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