St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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13th July 1784 - 15th November 1785

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Image 80 of 1213rd May 1785


Middlesex ss}

Elizabeth Gready< no role > the widow of John Gready< no role >
deced maketh oath that she when a singlewoman was
heretofore hired & lived as a hired Servant by the year at Certain
Wages by & with James Kirk< no role > in the Parish of St
Faith under St Paule in the City of London Engraver
& Continued in such Service under such hiring for the
Space of five Years or thereabouts & did not afterwards live
as a hired servant for the Space of a year elsewhere or do
any Act to gain a subsequent Settlement save what she
Acquired by marriage with her said late husband whose
Place of Settlement is wholy unknown to her That after
the death of her said husbands first wife whose Maiden
name was Mary Maines< no role > she this Depont (in pursuance
of Banns duly published for that purpose) was lawfully
married to her said late husband in the Parish Church
of St James Clerkenwell in Middlesex by whom she hath
a Son now living named Joseph< no role > aged about ten Years &
two Months That she this Depont hath also another
Child now living named Elizabeth< no role > aged about four
Months which was born of her body in the Workhouse
belonging to the sd Parish of St Faith Situate at Mile End in
Middx & which last mentioned Child is a Bastard by reason
she was never Married to the Sd Childs father That she this
Depont Sometime in December last was removed with
her sd Children from Blackman Street in the Borough
of Southwarke by a Vagrant order to the sd Parish of Saint
Faith as being the Place of her Maiden Settlement previous
to her Marriage with her said late husband.


Sworn this third day of
May 1785 before
R Davies

The Mark of
Elizabeth [mark] Gready< no role >




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