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 148 of 37315th November 1773


Westmr.

to wit Hannah Parker< 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. Hughes a Taylor in Ship Yard in the Parish of
St. Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr . for Three years
at the Yearly Wages of Three pounds for the Two first
Years and four Pounds for the last Years hath quitted her
said Service about Three Years ago and hath not 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
to become Chargable to thesamesaid Parrish she being Poor and unable
to maintain the same when born Says that one Thomas
Jones
< no role > a Journeyman Shoemaker who now works for one
Mr. Mc. Pherson a Shomaker on Snow Hill is the father
thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body
[..] on Whit Sunday last being the 30th. May and at sevl.
different times afterwards at one of which times he got her
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is now
Pregnant off And that the said Thomas Jones< no role > and no
other Person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof

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

her
Hannah [mark] Parker< no role >
Mark




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