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 113 of 37314th July 1773


Westmr.

to wit Elizth. Bristow< 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 James Ward< no role > a Cheesemonger in Black [..]
Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westminster for One Year and upwards at the
Yearly Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her said Service
upwards of Six Months and hath not since Rented House
or done any other act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement
and further upon her Voluntary Oath Says she was Yearly
delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the Workhouse
belonging to this Parish and further says that one Isaac
Sleigh
< no role > Journeyman to the said Mr. Ward had Carnal
Knowledge of her Body in his the said Mr. Wards house sometime in the Month of October
last but the Particular Day she does not now remember
and at several different times afterwards at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of
which she was so delivered as aforesaid and that the said
Isaac Sleigh< no role > and no other Person did beget the same &
that he is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 14th. day
of July 1773 before
R. Butler

her
Elizth. [mark] Bristow< no role >
Mark




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