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 114 of 3683rd February 1777


Middx
&
Westmr.}

Ann Powell< 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 Mr. Buff an Appothecary in Stanhope
Street in the parish of St. Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westmr . upwards of One Year at the yearly
Wages of Five Pounds where she now resides 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) Says that one James Pugh< no role > a Journeyman
to her said Master is the Father thereof she having
had Carnal knowledge of her Body some in the
Month of June last but the particular day she
does not now remember and at sevl. different
times afterwards at one of which times he get
her with Child of the Child or Children of which she
now pregnant as aforesaid and that the said
James Pugh< no role > and no other person did beget the
same and that he is the [..] real and true Father
thereof.


Sworn this 3d day
ofJanuaryFeby. 1777 before
Sampn Wright< no role >

Ann Powell< no role >




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