Middlesex ss.
Isabella Cousins< no role >
the Widow
of
Stephen Cousins< no role >
deceased maketh Oath that she was lawfully Married
to her said late Husband at the Parish Church of St. John
Wapping
on or about the Twenty first Day of August
1785
, that her said late Husband has informed her that
before his Marriage with her & when he was a Single
Man was hired & lived as a hired Servant
by the Year
with Mr. Robinson Victualler who then kept the
Public House called the
St. Andrew
in the Parish of
St. Botolph without Aldgate
in the County of Middlesex
at certain yearly Wages & continued in his Service
under such hiring upwards of Two Years when his
said Master let the said House to one
Alex. Robinson< no role >
who died in the said House, that his Widow some
time after his Decease Married one
Alexr. Shaw< no role >
And that her said Husband continued to live as a
hired Servant by the Year in the said House with
the said Alexr. Robinson his Widow & her second
Husband Alexr. Shaw about Five Years at certain
Yearly Wages, that he went from thence & lived as a
hired Servant by the Year with a Mr. Peak who
kept
[..] Wine Vaults at Wapping Wall
about Nine
Months But has not since he quitted the Service of
Mr. Shaw lived as a hired Servant by the Year
with any Person 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, Nor has she since
her said Husbands Death done any Act to her Knowledge
or Belief to gain a Settlement in her own right
Sworn this 19th Day of
March 1796
before
R Davies
her
Isabella [mark] Cousins< no role >
Mark