Middlesex
ss}
The Voluntary Examination of
Mary Fitzgerald< no role > This name instance is in set 766. This set is in the group(s): MothersBA .
of the
Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate
in the said County
Singlewoman
taken on oath before me
Burford Camper< no role >
Esquire
one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace
in and for the said
County this 23d. day of October 1773
Who on her oath Saith that She is now with child And that the
said child is likely to be born a Bastard and to be Chargeable to
the said Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate
And that Simon
Daves< no role >
of the said Parish Watchmaker
is the Father of the said Child
and this Examinant farthr Saith that sometime ago she was hired &
lived as a hired Servant by the year With Samuel Daves< no role >
(the Father of
the sd. Simon Daves) who then lived in
Mill Yard
in the Parish of Saint
Mary Whitechapel
in the sd. County of Middlesex
Jeweller
and Continued
in such Service there for the Space of Thirteen Months at the yearly
Wages of Four Pounds And then this Examinant removed with her sd.
Master Samuel Daves< no role >
to
Lower Eastsmithfield
in the said Parish of
St. Botolph without Aldgate
where she Continued as his Servant under
such hiring & wages as aforesaid for the Space of Five Months and
this Examinant has not Since lived as a hired Servant for a year nor done
any Act to her knowledge or belief to gain a Subsequent Settlement.
Sworn this 23d day
of October 1773
before}