| Examination Text | Jane Beauford aged 25 years and upwards in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex upon her oath saith that she is the wife of Matthew Beauford (gone from her) to whom she was married at the Parish Church of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid the fifth day of February which was in the year 1764, that her said husband never was bound an apprentice, that her said husband was (while single and unmarried) a yearly hired servant to Mr Pinchbeck, Toyman in Powells Buildings in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid for the space of one year and nine months at the yearly wages of 20 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about two years ago, 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 other place for 12 months together, that Joan Beauford, this Examinant's husband's father lived in and rented an house in York Buildings in the said Parish of St Martin the Fields as she this Examinant hath been informed, but how long he kept the said house what rent he paid for the same or when quitted it she this Examinant cannot tell, that he the said John Beauford hath not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes since he quitted the said house in York Buildings to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this Examinant hath two children living by her said husband to wit Elizabeth Jane Charlotte aged one year and nine months, and John aged about two months both now with this Examinant. Sworn the 12th Day of March 1767 before Peter Planck. |
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