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 172 of 3737th February 1774


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to wit Mary Pickering< no role > Aged about Twenty five
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House or Paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant
for one Year Says she was bound an Apprentice to
and Served one Daniel Adcock< no role > a Ribbon Weaver in
in Holywell Row in the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch
in the County of Middlesex for Three Years or upwards
the first part of her said Apprenticeship but through
the ill Usage of her Master her late Mother took her
away says she never was Assigned Over to any other
Person or ever gained any Subsequent Settlement and
Further says that on the 28th day of Decr. past she was
delivered of Female Bastard Child in the House of Mr. Miller
in Little Wych Street which has since been baptized by
the Name of Ann< no role > Says that one George Lee< no role > is
the Father then of he having had carnal Knowledge
of her Body sometime the Month of April 1773 and
at servl. different times afterwards at one of Which
times he got her with Child of the Female Bastard
of which she was so delivered as afsd. and that the said
Geo. Lee< no role > did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father


Sworn this 7th. day
of Febry 1774 before
W Kelyngs R Butler

her
Mary [mark] Pickering< no role >
mark




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