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 75 of 3738th March 1773


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to wit Mary Walford< no role > Aged about Thirty One Years on her
Oath Says she never was married nor ever was an Apprentice
a Yearly hired Servant for one Year says she has been Informed
and which Information she veryly believeth to be true that her
Father Jonathan Walford< no role > deceased Served three Years the last
Part of his Apprenticeship with Mr. Jaques at the Castle in
Portugal Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westminster and never Rented Ten Pounds a Year or
Paid Taxes to this Examinant knowledge or belief 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 to 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 Langley< no role > Servant to One John Rolls< no role > a Cow-ha [..]
in Deptford in Surry had Carnal Knowledge of her Body some
time in the Month of June last and Several times afterwards
at One of which times he got her with Child of the Child or
Children or which she is now Pregnant and that the said
John Langley< no role > and no other Person did beget the same and
that he is the real and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 8th. day of
March 1773 before me
W Kelyngs

her
Mary [mark] Walford< no role >
Mark

Witness
E: Fields




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