St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
BA | EP

5th November 1773 - 3rd January 1775

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Image 52 of 7730th August 1744


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Elizabeth Pratt< no role > the widow of William Pratt< no role >
deced maketh oath That She hath been informed by a Letter
lately received from one Mary Parker< no role > now resident in the
Town of Birmingham & by other Credible information &
which this Deponent Verily believes to be true That her
said late husband duly Served his apprenticeship with one
Wild in the Parish of Saint Martin in Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Buckle Chasemaker and by means thereof gained
a legal Settlement there That to this Deponents knowledge or
belief her Said husband did not afterwards rent a house of the
yearly rent or value of Ten Pounds nor Serve any Parish
office or pay any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or do any Act
to gain a Subsequent Settlement and this Deponent can give no
other account respecting her Said late husband Settlement That
She hath Five Children namely Joseph aged< no role > about Thirteen
years two months John aged< no role > about Eight years and five months
William aged< no role > about Seven years and five months and Thomas
aged
< no role > about Three years and five months and Elizabeth aged< no role >
about nine months the lawful Issue of this Deponent by
her said husband to whom She was lawfully married and
none of which said children have done any act to gain a Settlement for themselves


Sworn this 30th day
of August 1774 before
B Camper Wilmot

The Mark of
[mark] Elizabeth Pratt< no role >




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