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

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Image 18 of 13029th January 1778


Middlesex ss

Elizabeth Cary< no role > the wife of James Cary< no role >
maketh oath That her said husband who is now absent
from her beyond Sea was by birth a Foreigner & never
did any Act to gain a Settlement in England or Wales to
her knowledge or belief That She this Deponent can give
no Account respecting the Settlement of her late Parents or
either of them That she has been informed by her late Mother
Esther Langford< no role > deced & which She believes to be true that
She this Deponent was born in the Parish of St Dunstan in the
West in the City of London That She this Deponent was
never bound an Apprentice nor ever lived as a hired servant
for a year during the time that She was a Single & Unmarried
Woman nor Ever did any Act to gain a Settlement for herself
Save what he has Acquired by her marriage as aforesaid
and that She was lawfully married to her Said husband who
is still living as She believes


Sworn this.29 day
of Janury 1778 before
Jasper Clarkey< no role > Parkr Rowlands< no role >

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

Middlesex ss}

Mary Free< no role > the widow of Thomas Free< no role >
deced maketh oath that Since the death of her Said late husband
She was hired & lived as ahired servant by the year by & with
Mr Baskerville of Burr Street in the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Aldgate in the sd County at Certain Wages & Continued
in Such Service for the Space of two years & upwards & by
means thereof gained a legal Settlement there That she has not
Since lived as a hired servant for a year or been Since Married
or done any Act to gain anothr Settlement


Sworn this 29. day of
Janry 1778 before
Parkr Rowlands< no role >

Mary Free< no role >




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