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