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 323 of 37323rd November 1775


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Eleanor Donkin< no role > Aged about Twenty five years on her
Oath says she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes Says she
lived a hired yearly Servant with one Mrs Holland a Mantua maker
in Stanhope Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty
of Westminster upwards of one year at the yearly Wages of five
Pounds hath Quitted her said Service about Twelve Months Ago and
since that time hath never lived a hired yearly Servant for one
year or any otherwise gained a Subsequent Settlement, 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 Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint
Clement Danes she being poor and unable to Maintain the
same when born And that one Francis Dunn< no role > or Journeyman
Taylor who lately worked with Mr Levitt a Taylor in Norfolk
Street is the father thereof he having Carnal Knowledge of her
Body sometime the latter end of May last or the beginning of
June but the particular time she does not now remember, and
at several different times afterwards at one of which times
he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
now pregnant and that the said Francis Dunn< no role > and no other
Person did beget the same and that he is the real and True
father thereof


Sworn this 23d day
of Novr 1775 before me
David Walker< no role >

Ele Donkin
Ele Donkin< no role >




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