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 82 of 15720th January 1798


Middlesex ss.

Isabella Thompson< no role > the Widow of Joseph
Thompson
< no role > deceased maketh Oath that she was
lawfully Married to her said late Husband
at Bristol about Fourteen years ago, that
her said late Husband about Seven years
ago Rented a House of Seven Pounds Fifteen
Shillings a year, or thereabouts, in Charles
Street in the Hamlet of Mile end New Town
in the Parish of St. Dunstan Stepney in the
County of Middlesex , and lived in the same
about Five years and was charged to and
paid the Poors Rate and Kings Tax for the
said House, that her said late Husband
died in the said House and that She has
not since she quitted the same, 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 a Child named John< no role > aged about
Five years the lawful issue by her said
late Husband, and this Deponent further
saith that being Poor & unable to provide
for herself & Child she has been obliged to
apply to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of St. Botolph without Aldgate Middlesex for
Relief & has been Relieved by them accordingly


Sworn this 20th Day
of Jany. 1798 before
H: Reynell R Davies

her
Isabella [mark] Thompson< no role >
Mark




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