St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th May 1776 - 15th March 1779

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Image 56 of 36828th May 1776


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Mary Gregory< no role > aged about Twenty Years on her
Oath Says she never was married Rented House or
paid Taxes says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Daniel Stebbings< no role > a Tripeman in Clements
Lane in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westminster upwards of Two Years at the
Yearly Wages of Three pounds hath quitted her said
Service about five Years ago since which time she hath
gained no other 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 born
And that one John Nosier< no role > a Journey Butcher who now
works with one Mr. Ambridge a Hog Butcher in Woods
Close and who Uses the Cheshire Cheese in Woods Close afsd.
is the Father there of he having had Carnal knowledge
of her Body the 29th. day of August 1774 and at Sevl. different
times afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child
of the Child or Childen of which she is now pregnant &
that the said John Nosier< 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 May 1776 before
M Addington

her
Mary [mark] Gregory< no role >
Mark




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