St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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5th November 1773 - 3rd January 1775

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Image 14 of 7715th December 1773


Middlesex ss}

Mary Fitzgerald< no role > Singlewoman maketh oath
That about nine years & five months last past the Celebration of a
marriage or pretended marriage was had between this Depont.
& one Dominick Mc Daniel< no role > a Mariner at Portsmouth in the
County of Southampton she this Depont. being then of the Age of
Fifteen years or thereabouts That Soon after the Solemnisation of
Such Marriage She this Depont. & her Fathr John Fitzgerald< no role > were
Credibly informed & Which information She believes to be true That
previous to the time of Such Marriage the said Mc Daniel had
been lawfully married to another Woman Which Woman at the
time of this Deponts marriage in manner as aforesaid was Actually
living Whereby this Deponts. Marriage with the said Mc Daniel as
She has been advised & apprehends became intirely void in Law
That the said Mc Daniel lived with her but for the Space of Six
Weeks & then left her & She has never heard from him Since & Can't
tell Whethr he is now living or dead nor Can She give any Account
respecting his Place of Settlement That about three years & half ago
She this Deponent was hired & lived as a hired Servant for a year with
Samuel Daves< no role > in Millyard in the Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel
in the County of Middlesex Jeweller at the yearly wages of Four
Pounds & Continued in such Service there for one year & Some few
days & then this Deponent removed with her said Master to
Lower East Smithfield in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate
in the County of Middlesex where she Continued in the Service of her
said Master for the Space of a month & no longer to the best of this
Deponts. now recollection & then this Depont. absolutely left the Service
of her sd Master But in about the Space of Four Months She returned
to him again & was hired by him a Second time at the yearly wages of
Four Pounds under which hiring she Continued with him for the Space
of Seven Weeks & not more to the best of her now recollection & then left
her said Masters Service a Second time & was absent for about the Space
of Four months and then She returned to him again & was hired by him
as his Servant a Third time at the yearly wages of Three Pounds under
which last menconed hiring She Continued with him for the Space for Four
Months & not longer to the best of this Depont. now recollection & then She
left her sd. Masters Service & had not lived with him Since nor has She
Since lived as a hired Servant for a year nor done any act to gain a
Settlement otherwise than as is above Set forth


Sworn this 15th. Day
of December 1773 before
Cha: Digby< no role > Wilmot

Mary Fitzgerald< no role >




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