St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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19th October 1745 - 7th July 1747

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Image 127 of 4032nd April 1746


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Mary Elston< no role > upon her Voluntary Oath saith she was
never married & that she was delivered of a
Female Bastard Child in Bear Yard in the Parish
of St. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex
on the 15th, Day of March last as yett unbaptized
now living & [..] become Chargeable to the
sd. Parish of St. Clement Danes she being Poor
& unable to maintain the same Says that
Jno. Delafont< no role > of the Inner Temple London
Esqr . did begett the Sd. female Bastard Child on
her Body the sd. Jno. Delafont< no role > having Carnall
knowledge of her Body on the 16th: Day of June
last & 23d: [..] of August
following at one of which times he gott her
with Child of the sd. female Bastard Child of
which she was delivered as aforesd. & that
no other person has either before nor since that time had [..] have
of her [..] ods & that he the sd. John Delafont< no role > & no other person is
the true & reall Father thereof


Sworn 2d. April
1746 before
Samuel Clarke< no role > Wm. Jones< no role >

Mary Elston< no role >




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