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 68 of 15712th December 1797


Middlesex

to wit Eleanor Bleak< no role > Widow of William Bleak< no role >
maketh Oath and saith that she was lawfully married
to her said Husband about twenty two Years ago at the
Parish Church of Saint Botolph Aldgate that her said
Husband was bound apprentice by Indenture to Mr.
Smith who lived in the Green Yard near to a place these
called Black Jack Alley and now called Coopers Court
and served him under such Indenture about three
Years and a half, that his said Master dced and this
Examinants said Husband was assigned over to serve
the remainder of his apprentice ship with Messrs.
Weatherley and Crowdie Glass Blowers whose
Manufactory was in or near the Green Yard aforesaid
that her said Husband during the last year of his said
Apprenticeship usually slept at his Fathers House which
was situate on the East side of the Green Yard aforesaid
that her said Husband did not do any Act to gain
a Subsequent Settlement nor hath she this
examinant done [..] any Act since his decease to
gain any Settlement in her own right.

[..]
Sworn this 12th day of Decr.
1797 before us R Davies H: Reynell

her
Eleanor [mark] Bleak< no role >
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