St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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31st March 1783 - 3rd August 1786

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Image 378 of 39129th March 1785


Saint Clement Danes

Middlesex
and
Westminster}


he taken
&
took Child

to wit Ann Lochwood< no role > aged about 28 years on her Oath
says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived as a hired yearly Servant with one Thos. Plimpton< no role >
of the Strand in the parish of Saint Clement Danes for 13
Months at the yearly Wages of Seven Guineas hath quitted her
said Service upwards of fourteen Months since which time
she has gained no other Settlement than as aforesaid And
further on her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with
Child or Child which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards
and to become Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Clement
Danes And further says that one Robert Mingay< no role > &
Currier who lately lodged in White Cross Street had Carnal
knowledge of her Body at their Lodgings in Goswell Street
sometime in the Month of July last 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
and that the said Robert Mingay< no role > and no other person did
beget the same and that he is the real & true father
thereof Not told where the father
now lives


Sworn this 29th
day of March 1785
R Butler

Ann Lochwood< no role >




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