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

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Image 58 of 13021st August 1778


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Martha Edwards< no role > the widow of Richard Edwards< no role >
deced maketh oath That her Said late husband has informed her &
Which She believes to be true That he was duly bound to & Served
the Whole of his Apprenticeship with Matthew Elliot< no role > in Queen
Street in the Park in the Parish of St Saviour in Southwarke
in the County of Surry Watchmaker & by means thereof
gained a legal Settlement there That he did not afterwards
rent a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards or Serve any
Parish office or pay any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or do
any Act to this Deponts knowledge or belief to gain anothr
Settlement nor hath She this Deponent Since his death been
married or done any Act to gain a Settlement for herself
& that She was lawfully married to her Said late husband
& about two Years ago was received into the Workhouse of the
Said Parish & provided for there as being one of the Poor
there legally Settled in right of her Said late husbands Settlemt


Sworn this. 18. day
of August 1778 before
Wm Blackmore< no role > Jno Sherwood< no role >

Martha Edwards< no role >

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Ann Right< no role > the wife of Jonathan Right< no role > maketh
oath That her said husband is now absent from her in the Westmr
Malitia That he has informed her & which she believes to be true
That he was duly bound to & Served the whole of his Apprenticeship
with William George< no role > in the Parish of St Botolph without
Aldgate in the Sd County Pastry Cook & has not Since to this
Deponts knowledge or belief lived as a hired servant for a year or
rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards or Served any
Parish office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or done
any Act to gain another Settlement That She was lawfully married
to her said husband by whom She hath a Child now living James < no role >
aged about Ten months.


Sworn this. 21. day of
August 1778 before
Jno Sherwood< no role >

The Mark of
Ann [mark] Right




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