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 235 of 37328th December 1774


Middlesex

to wit Abigail Somervil< no role > This name instance is in set 1059. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged about Thirty One Years
on her Oath says she never was Married rented house paid Taxes
ever served any Apprenticeship whatever says she lived a hired
Yearly servant with one Christopher Clift< no role > a Grocer in the Strand
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middlex
upwards of One Year and three Quarters at the Yearly Wages
Six Pounds and has Quitted her said Said Service upwards
five Years Ago and has not since she Quitted the same ever
rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant
for one Year and further upon her Solemn Oath says she was
delivered of a Male Bastard Child at the Queens Hospital in
Stower street Totenham Court Road in the Parish of Saint
Pancras in the County of Middlesex , And is now become
Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes And
that one Thomas Morgan< no role > This name instance is in set 2107. a Writer at No 11 in Cursitor
Street Chancery Lane is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal knowledge of her body sometime in the Month of
August in the Year 1772 to the best of he remembrance and
at several different times afterwards at one of which times
he got her with Child of the said Male Bastard Child of which
she was so delivered as aforesaid, And that the said Thomas
Morgan
< no role > and no other person did beget the same and that he is the
real and true father thereof


Sworn this 28th.
day of Decr 1774 before
Tho Lane< no role >

The Mark
of Abigail Somervil< no role >
[mark]




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