St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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22nd January 1795 - 30th January 1797

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Image 74 of 1452nd March 1796


Middlesex ss.

Sarah Lee< no role > the Wife of John Lee< no role > who
has left her maketh Oath that she was
lawfully Married to her said Husband at the
Parish Church of St. Giles in the Fields in the
County of Middlesex on or about the Seventh
Day of September One Thousand Seven Hundred
& Seventy Three that her said Husband has
informed her that before his Marriage with her
& when he was a Singleman he was hired &
lived as a hired Servant by the year with
Mr. Hicks who then kept the House called
the Three Compasses in Little Wild Street in
the said Parish of St. Giles in the Fields in
the Capacaty of a Waiter at certain Yearly
Wages & continued in his Service under such
hiring about Three Years that her said
Husband did not after he quitted his Service
live as a hired Servant by the Year in any
other Parish or Place for the space of One Year
together or Rented any House or Lodging of
the Yearly Rent or value of Ten pounds or paid
any Poors Rate or Kings Tax or done any Act
to her Knowledge or Belief to gain a Subsequent
Settlement, and further saith that being Poor &
not able to provide for herself she has been
obliged to apply to the Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate for Relief &
has been relieved by them accordingly


Sworn this 2nd. Day
of March 1796 before
H: Reynell

her
Sarah [mark] Lee< no role >
Mark




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