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

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Image 26 of 13020th March 1778


Middlesex ss}

Sarah Connolly< no role > the wife of Charles Connolly< no role >
maketh oath that her Sd husband who is now absent from her
at Sea was by birth an Irishman & to this Deponents knowledge
or belief never did any Act to gain a Settlement in any part of
Great Britain That divers years ago & when a Singlewoman
She was hired & lived as ahired servant by the year with Thos.
Knott
< no role > a Hemp Porter in Burr Street in the Parish of St. Botolph
witht 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 & did not afterwards live
as ahired servant for the Space of a year elsewhere or do any Act
to gain anothr Settlement Save what She Acquired by her marriage
as aforesaid & that she was lawfully Married to her Said husband


Sworn this 19 day of
March 1778 before
Jasper Clarkey< no role >

The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Connolly< no role >

Middlesex ss}

Anne Wenman< no role > Singlewoman maketh oath
that divers years ago her late Father Henry Wenman< no role > deced
rented a house of the yearly Rent of Ten pounds & upwards in
that part of Fetter Lane which is in the Liberty of London in
the Parish of St Andrew Holborn London & resided therein for many
years & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there & did
not afterwards do any Act to gain anothr Settlement & in Which
house this Deponent lived with her Said Father as part of his
Family That She this Deponent never was bound an Apprentice
nor ever lived as a hired servant for a year in any one place nor
was ever Married nor ever did any Act to gain a Settlement
in her own right.


Sworn this 20 day of
March 1778 before
P Rowlands Jasper Clarkey< no role >

Anne Wenman< no role >




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