St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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31st January 1797 - 3rd January 1799

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Image 27 of 1579th May 1797


Middlesex ss.

Catherine Ralph< no role > the Wife of Jas. Ralph< no role >
maketh Oath that she was lawfully Married to
her said Husband at her Fathers House in
Skinner Row Dublin Ireland about Twenty One Years
ago that her said Husband about Five Years
ago Rented a House of Ten Pounds a Year
in Flushing Yard in Parish of St. Botolph
without Aldgate in the County of Middlesex
& was charged to and paid the Poors Rate
for the same and lived in the said House about
Three years that he has not since he quitted
the said House 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, that she has
Four Children Namely James< no role > aged about
Twenty Years who is Married & lives in Ireland
John< no role > aged about Nineteen Years, who about
Five Years ago was bound Apprentice to his
Father, but left him soon after & went to
Sea , Mary< no role > aged about Eighteen Years who
has not Yet done any Act to gain a Settlement
in her own right, But now lives Servant with
a Person in the City, whose name she does not
recollect, & Jane< no role > aged about Sixteen years
who is an Apprentice to Mrs. Steward of Ten
Foot Way in the Parish of St. John Wapping
in the County of Middlesex Mantua Maker
& has served about Two years of her Said
Apprenticeship, the lawful issue by her sd. Husband

Sworn this Day of
May 1797 before}




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