Middlesex ss
Sarah Oldis< no role >
the widow
of
Thomas Oldis< no role >
deced maketh oath that her sd late husband is lately dead
as She has been informed & believes That her sd husband
has informed her & which She believes to be true that he
was heretofore duly bound to & Served his Apprenticeship
with
Richard Betsworth< no role >
a Waterman
in
Maudlins Rents
in the Parish of St Botolph witht Aldgate
in the sd County
& to her knowledge or belief hath not Since done any Act
to gain a subsequent Settlement That about three Years
& half ago her said late husband was Pressed on board his
Majesties Ship the Inno Frigate & has ever Since Continued
at Sea
to the time of his death as she this Deponent Verily
believes She this Depont not having Seen him nor has he
had any Access to her Person for near the Space of two
Years now last past That She this Deponent was delivered
of a Male Child on the Seventh day of June
last in the
Work house
belonging to the Parish of St George Hanover
Square
in the sd County Since baptized & registred there
by the name
John Oldis< no role >
And that one
John Eustace< no role >
of the Said Parish of St George Hanover Square
Coach Carver
is the Father of the Said Child Which
is illegitimate & a Bastard by reason that she this
Depont was never Married to the sd Eustace & lastly this
Depont Saith that this Examination is Voluntary
Sworn this 13th day
of Decemr 1783
before
R Davies
The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Oldis< no role >