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 168 of 37320th January 1774


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to wit Mary Crosdale< no role > Aged about Thirty Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or
was an Apprentice to any Person Says she lived a hired
Yearly Servant with one Mr. John Seetta Land< no role > Waiter
in Prescot Street Goodmans Fields in the Parish
of Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of Middlesex
for upwards of one Year at the Yearly Wages of Six
Pounds hath quitted her said Service upwards of One
Year 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 says that in the 3d. day of
December last past she was delivered of a Male Bastard
Child in the Poor House belonging to the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes which has since been baptized by the
Name of Timothy< no role > Says that one Lawrence Bocks< no role >
Porter to one Mr. Simmonds an Apothecary in German
Street Saint James's is the Father there of the having had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body some time in the Month
of March 1779 but the particular Day she does not now
remember and at Sevl. 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 Lawrence Bocks< no role > and no other Person did beget
the same and that he is his real and True father thereof

Sworn this 20th. day
of January 1774 before} [..]

Mary Crosdale< no role >




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