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 341 of 37312th February 1776


Middlesex

to wit Mary Newally< no role > Aged about Twenty Two years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House paid
Taxes or ever served an Apprenticeship Says she
lived as a hired yearly Servant with one Mr.
Chandler a Butterman in Clare Markett for One
year land an half at the yearly Wages of Six Pounds
hath quitted her said Service about Eight Months
ago [..] since which time she hath done no Act whereby
to gain 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 Chargable to the Said Parish
She being poor and unable to maintain the same when
been Says that one John Clarke< no role > Servant to her said late
Master did beget such Bastard Child on her Body he
having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body some time in
the Month of June last but the particular day she does
now remember and at several different times afterwards
at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or
Childen of which she is now pregnant And that the said
John Clarke< no role > and no other Person did beget the same and that
he is the real and true Father thereof


Sworn this 12th. day
of Feb. 1776 before
R Butler

Mary Newally< no role >




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