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

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Image 69 of 1307th October 1778


Middlesex ss}

Mary Pond< no role > the wife of James Pond< no role >
maketh oath that her Said husband is lately gone away
from her to places unknown to her & hath left her destitute
of Support That her Said husband has informed her and
which She believes to be true that divers years ago he
was duly bound to & Served the Whole of his Apprenticeship
with John Soper< no role > in the Hamlet of Hammersmith in the
parish of Fulham in the Sd County Lighterman & by
means thereof gained a legal Settlement there That to this
Deponents knowledge or belief her Said husband has
not Since 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 a Subsequent Settlement And
that She was lawfully married to her said husband


Sworn this. 7. day of
october 1778 before
P. Rowlands Jasper Clarkey< no role >

Mary Pond< no role >

Middlesex ss}

Thomasin Swan< no role > maketh oath that She Can
give no Account respecting her Parents Settlement or eithr of
them That She was born in Farthing Hatch in the Parish
of St Giles Without Cripplegate London & never was bound an
Apprentice nor ever lived as a hired servant for a year
nor ever rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards
nor ever paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor was
ever married nor ever did any Act to gain a Settlement
in her own right.


Sworn this 7 day
of october 1778
before
P Rowlands Jasper Clarkey< no role >

The Mark of
Thomasin [mark] Swan< no role > .




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