St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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15th December 1777 - February 1779

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Image 6 of 13029th February 1778


Middlesex ss}

Elizabeth Robinson< no role > the widow of James
Robinson
< no role > deced maketh oath that divers years ago & Since
her said late husbands death She was hired & lived as a hired
Servant by the year at Certain Wages by & with Henry Layton< no role >
a Sugar Baker in that part of College Hill which is in the
Parish of Saint Martin Vintry in the City of London & Watmr
in Such Service for the Space of a year & by means thereof
gained a legal Settlement there That She has not Since lived as
a hired servant for a year elsewhere or been married or done
any Act to gain another Settlement.


Sworn this. 19. day of
December 1777 before
Parkr Rowlands< no role > Jno Sherwood< no role >

The mark of
Elizabeth [mark] Robinson< no role >

Middlesex ss}

Elizabeth Tilly< no role > the widow of Alexander Tilly< no role > deced
maketh oath That her sd late husband was born in the Parish of Saint
Botolph witht Aldgate in the sd County & Where his Parents as this Depont
believes were legally Settled at their respaved deaths That her said
husband divers Years ago was duly bound to Richard Addison< no role > of
the Parish of Saint John Wapping Middx Potter to learn the Trade
of a Potter but during Such his apprenticeship he lodged with his
Parents in Sunyard in the sd parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
as She this Deponent has been informed & believes That her Said
husband never rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards nor
ever Served any Parish office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes
nor ever did any Act to gain a Settlemt. Subsequent to his apprenticeshipSave
that this Depont belives that he might pay the Kings Tax for a house
he rented in King Henry yard in the sd Parish of St Botolph Aldgate
That
She this Deponent was lawfully Married to her sd husband & Since his
death hath not been Married or lived as a hired servant for a year or done
any Act to gain a Settlement in her own right.

Sworn this 28. day of Febry.
1778 before}




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