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

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Image 29 of 13027th March 1778


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Sarah Taylor< no role > the wife of John Taylor< no role > maketh
oath that her Said husband is lately gone away from her to Places
unknown & left her destitute of Support That her Said husband
has informed her & Which She believes to be true that previous to
her Marriage with him he rented a house of Thirteen pounds a
year at new Crane in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the
Sd County & resided thereon for the Space of Six Months & was
Charged to & paid Poors Rates for the Same & by means thereof gained
a legal Settlement there & did not afterwards to this Deponts.
Knowledge or belief rent a house of Ten Pounds a year or
upwards or Serve any Parish office or Pay any Poors Rates
or Kinds Taxes or do any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement
& that She was lawfully married to her said husband


Sworn this 27. day of
March 1778 before
Jasper Clarkey< no role > P Rowlands

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

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Elizabeth Rose< no role > the wife of John Rose< no role >
maketh oath That her Said husband is now Absent from
her beyond the Seas That he has informed her & Which She
believes to be true that many years ago he was hired &
lived as ahired servant by the year at Ceratin Wages with
one John Love< no role > who kept the Black Bull Inn in Kent Street
in the Parish of Saint George Southwarke in the County
of Surry & Continued in Such Service for the Space of five
Years & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there
& did not afterwards do any Act to her Knowledge informd
or belief to gain another Settlement & that She was
lawfully married to her Said husband.


Sworn this 27. day of
March 1778 before
Jasper Clarkey< no role > P. Rowlands

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




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