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<p n="326"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss.</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n326-1">Elizabeth Bench</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10304_occ224">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n326-2">John Bench</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10304_occ225">Seaman</rs>
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on board the Sparrow Cutter in<lb></lb>
His Majesty's Service maketh Oath that she<lb></lb>
was lawfully Married to her said Husband<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10304_geo615"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10304_geo616">Parish Church</rs>
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of St. Ann Soho</rs>
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on or<lb></lb>
about the <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10304_date124">Twenty third Day of Septr. One<lb></lb>
Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety two</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that her said Husband is a Native of<lb></lb>
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& never did any Act to her<lb></lb>
knowledge or belief to gain a settlement<lb></lb>
in England, that she this Deponent before<lb></lb>
her said Marriage and when she was a<lb></lb>
Singlewoman was hired as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10304_occ226">Servant</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
the Year to Mr. Garkey of <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10304_geo618"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10304_geo619"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10304_geo620">Wardour Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish of St. James</rs>
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in the City &<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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Musical Instrument<lb></lb>
Maker at the yearly Wages of Six Guineas<lb></lb>
& continued in his Service under such<lb></lb>
hiring upwards of Two Years & never<lb></lb>
did any Act to her knowledge or belief<lb></lb>
to gain a Subsequent Settlement except<lb></lb>
her Marriage as aforesaid, that she has<lb></lb>
Two Children Namely <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n326-3">John</rs>
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aged about<lb></lb>
Five Years & <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n326-4">Henry</rs>
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aged about Two Years<lb></lb>
the lawful issue by her said Husband and<lb></lb>
this Deponent further saith that being Poor<lb></lb>
& unable to provide for herself & Children<lb></lb>
she has been obliged to apply to the Overseers<lb></lb>
of the Poor of the Parish of St. Botolph without<lb></lb>
Aldgate Middlesex for Relief & has been relieved<lb></lb>
by them accordingly</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10304_date125">15 Day of<lb></lb>
June 1798</rs>
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. before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n327-1">Dane Williams</rs>
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R Davies</hi>
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<p n="328">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10304_n328-1">Elizh.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bench</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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