St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th October 1772 - 17th May 1776

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Image 45 of 37327th November 1772


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to wit Ann Potter< no role > Aged about Twenty Seven Years on her
Oath Says she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr. Coombs [..]
Taylor in Arrundell Street Strand in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex for One Year and
Three Quarters at the Yearly Wages of Seven Pounds hath
quitted her said Service upwards of Three Years and hath [..]
since she quitted the same ever Rented House Paid Taxes or
lived a hired Yearly Servant for One Year And further upon
her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or Children
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and
become Chargable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when born
Says that one John Gammand< no role > a Coachman to one Mr. Vande [..]
at Hackney in the County of Middlesex had Carnal knowledge
of her Body on the Twentieth day of February last past at the House of Mr. Climpson at Bethnall Green
at several different times afterwards at one of which times
got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she [..]
now pregnant and that the said John Gammand< no role > and [..]
other Person did beget the same and that he is the real and
true Father thereof


Sworn this 27th. day
of Novr. 1772 before
Tho Lane< no role >

Ann Potter< no role >




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