St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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2nd July 1765 - 3rd June 1768

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Image 60 of 10814th March 1767


Middlesex ss}

Margaret Hopkins< no role > the Widow of Lockling Hopkins< no role >
deced Maketh Oath that her Said late husband was born
in Ireland as he has informed her but from what Part of
Ireland he Came from She Cannot Set forth having no
knowledge or information of the same And this Deponent
Saith that her Said husband has informed her that he never
lived as a hired servant by the year in England Nor to this
Deponents knowledge information or belief he never did
any Act to gain a Settlement in England And this Depont.
farther Saith that divers years ago and before her intermarriage
with her Said late husband She this Deponent lived as hired
Servant by the Year with Mr Charles Porter< no role > of Ram Alley
in Fleet Street in the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West
in the City of London at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds
and Continued in such service upwards of one Year And
Saith that She has not since lived as a hired Servant for the
Space of a year or upwards nor done any Act to gain a
Subsequent settlement to her said Servitude Save What she
might gain or Acquire by her said Marriage And lastly this
Deponent Saith that She hath two Children to Wit Cornelius
Burch
< no role > aged about three Years and James Burch< no role > aged about
Nine Months both of Whom are illegitimate and were born
in theParish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the
said County of Middlesex And that one William Burch< no role > of
the same Parish (to whom this Deponent was never Married)
did get her with Child of the Said two Bastard Children


Sworn this 14 day of
March 1767 before
Chris Scott< no role > R Pell

Margaret [mark] Hopkins< no role >
Her Mark




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