| Examination Text | Ann Burton aged 56 years removed by an order of removal of two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace from the Parish of St Andrew Holborn in the City of London to the Parish of St Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith that she is the widow of John Burton (who died the 16th of January last) to whom she was married the Parish Church of St Bridget, London the first Day of July in the year either 1763 or 1764, that her said husband was born abroad (but the particular part she cannot tell), that she hath heard her said husband say that he was born in Ireland, that he never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together in England to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this Examinant never was bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together, that her Father William Burtt was a Poulterer by trade and lived in and rented an house in Coventry Court in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of five years at the yearly rent of 20 pounds besides taxes, and that he died in the occupation of the said house. Sworn the 21st Day of November 1780 before Jacob Fletcher. |
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