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 96 of 36820th November 1776


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to wit Ann Pollord< no role > aged about 24 Years on her Oath says
she never was married rented house paid Taxes or lived a hired
Yearly Servant for one Year Says her Father Richard Pollord< no role >
served seven Years Apprenticeship with his Father Drake
Pollord
< no role > a Cutler in the Strand in the Parish of St. Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex and after he was out of his
said Apprenticeship he never gained any 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 of St. Clement Danes she being poor and unable
to maintain the same when born Says that one Edward
Moore
< no role > a Journeyman Fishmonger who lives with one Mr
Williams in Market Street St. James's Markett had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body in this Examinants Lodgings
in Hemlock Court Carey Street sometime in March last
but the particular Day she does not now remember and at sevl. different times afterwds. at one of [..] which
time she got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
she is now pregnant and that the said Edward Moore < no role > and
no other person did beget the same and that he is the real and
true Father thereof


Sworn this 20th.
Day of Novr. 1776 .
Before me
Sampn Wright< no role >

Ann Pollord< no role >




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