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 86 of 3688th October 1776


Middlesex
&
Westmr.}

Grace Taylor< 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 Timothy
Smart
< no role > who lives at the House of one Mr. Glanville in the Strand
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middx upwds.
of one Year at the Yearly Wages of five pounds hath quitted her
said Service about two Years and an half 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 Chargeable to the said parish she being poor and
unable to maintain the same when born and that one
Patrick Gantley< no role > a Taylor at the Dukes Head in St. Martins Street
Leicester Fields [..] is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime about the beginning
of May last but the particular Day 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
as aforesaid and that the said Patrick Gantley< no role > and no other
person did beget the same and that he is the Real and true
Father thereof.


Sworn this 8th. Day
of Octr. 1776 before
R Butler

Grace Taylor< no role >




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