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 70 of 37315th February 1773


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to wit Mary Storey< no role > Aged about Twenty Eight Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr. James Brooks< no role > a Coal Merchant in Houghton
Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westminster upwards of One Year at the Yearly
Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her said Service in
May last and hath not sine she quitted the same ever
Rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant
of One Year And further upon her Voluntary Oath
Says that one the Twelfth day of January last past she
was delivered of a Female Bastard Child in the House
of Mrs. Peakin Parish Nurse in Saint Clement Lane
in the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes which
hath since been baptized by the Name of Mary< no role > Says
that one Mark Thomas< no role > late a Footman to one Mr. Shea an
Irish Gentleman who lodged [..] at her said
Master House had Carnal Knowledge of her Body on
Tuesday the 21th. day of [..] April last in the
House of the said Mr. Brooks and at Several different times
afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of
the Female Bastard Child of which she was delivered as
aforesaid and that the said Mark Thomas < no role > and no other
Person did beget the same and that he his the real
and true Father thereof

Sworn this 15th. day of
February 1773 before me} [..]

her
Mary [mark] Storey< no role >
Mark




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