St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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25th March 1752 - 27th December 1753

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Image 75 of 37830th July 1752


Westmr.


Mary Fairchild< no role > This name instance is in set 958. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 26 Years upon Oath
saith she never was married and that she lived a
Yearly Servant for one Year & upwds. with Mrs. Roses
in Plough Court Carey Street in the parish of St Clemt
Danes in the Liberty of Westmr. at the yearly wages
of Four Pounds ten Shillings & quitted her sd. Service
about two Years ago since which time she has not
Rented ten pounds a Year paid parish taxes or lived a
Yearly Servant for one Year and further upon her
Voluntary Oath saith She is pregnant with Child or
Children which is likely to be born a bastard or bastards
& to become Chargeable to the sd. parish of St Clement
Danes she being Poor & unable to maintain the Same
when born and that James Farsens Apprentice
to Edmd Smith< no role > of the Bankside Southwerk Lighterman
did beget the sd. bastard Child or Children on her
body the sd. [..] James Farsens< no role > having had carnal
knowledge of this Examinant in December last &
at sevl. other times since at one of which times
he got her with Child of the said Bastard Child or
Children of which she is now pregnant & that the sd.
James Farsens< no role > & no other person is the true and
real father thereof

Sworn July 30th.
1752 before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The Mark of
Mary [mark] Fairchild< no role >




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