St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th March 1786 - 11th May 1792

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Image 68 of 38515th February 1787


Saint Clement Danes

Middx
&
Westmr.}

to wit Ann Cowden< no role > This name instance is in set 3734. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 19 years upon her
Oath saith that she never was married Rented House
paid Taxes lived as a hired yearly Servant for one year
or ever bound an Apprentice that her late father Ja [..]
Cowden
< no role > in his life time Rented and lived in a House
Water Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes for 7 years
the yearly Rent of £9..15..0 & paid all Taxes due for
same that since his decease her Mother has kept [..]
said House till this day and that this Ext. has been
with her Father & Mother ever since she was born that
she has done no Act in her own right to gain a Settlement
And further this Ext. upon her Oath saith that
the 29th. day of April 1784 last past she was delivered of
Male Bastard Child in her Mother House in the Street
Parish afsd. which hath since been Christened by the [..]
of Thos. Henry Ward< no role > and that on the 17th. day of Novr. 17 [..]
last past she was delivered of another Male Bastard
Child at her mother House afsd. in the Parish afsd. which has
since been Christened by the name of Henry Ward< no role > .
one Thos. Henry Ward< no role > a Journeyman Taylor who la [..]
at this Exts. Mothers House and work for a Mr. Triad
Taylor in Arrundel Street is the father of the sd. 2 Children he ha [..]
had Carnal knowledge of the Exts. Body for these
years last past at sevl. times and begotten the said
Children thereon And that the said Thos. Henry Ward< no role >
the only real and true father of the said Two Child

Sworn this 15th.
day of Febry. 1787
before me} R Butler

Ann Cowden< no role >

Man taken he paid £10
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