St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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26th January 1779 - 29th March 1783

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Image 93 of 3834th November 1779


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Eleanor Maddan< no role > This name instance is in set 619. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . 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 M [..]
Mackean at the Temple Hall in Shire Lane in the Pa [..]
of Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr . for th [..]
Months at the Yearly Wages of five Pounds hath quitted
said Service about Eighteen Months ago since which time
she hath gained no other Subsequent Settlement And further
her Voluntary Oath says she is Pregnant with Child or Ch [..]
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to [..]
Chargable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes and that
James Clarke< no role > a Journey Baker (who lately worked at a Baker
on the Right Hand side of Salsbury Court Fleet Streets who
works in the Daytime as a Tallow ship Porter betwixt Billing [..]
& Tower Wharf ) is the Father thereof he having had Carnal
knowledge of her Body at her this Examinants Lodging at one
Mr Murphys in Drury Lane the begining of April last and a
one other time afterwards at one of which times he got her [..]
Child of the Child or Children of which she is new pregnant
that the said James Clarke< no role > and no other Person did beget the
same and that he is the real & true Father thereof

Sworn this 4th. day
of Novr. 1779 before}




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