St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th July 1755 - 24th August 1757

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Image 59 of 39530th September 1755


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Phoebe Venden< no role > This name instance is in set 2928. Aged about 27 Years upon her voluntary Oath says
She never was married That She is pregnant with Child or Children
which is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards & to become Chargeable to the Parish of St. Clement Danes She being poor & unable to maintain the same where [..] born and that one William
Foster
< no role > Apprentice to Mr. Gardiner a Packer in little St. Helens
London did begett the said Bastard Child or Children on her Body
of which She is now pregnant he the said William Foster< no role > having
had Carnal knowledge of her Body in the Month of January last
in the House of one Mrs. Smith in Water Lane Fleet Street and at
Several times since And further upon Oath says that Thomas
Venden
< no role > This name instance is in set 2928. her late Father deced Rented a House of Eighteen Pounds a
Year in the Parish of St. Mary at Lambeth in the County of Surry
and lived in the same several Years That She this Examinant never
Rented a House nor lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year

Sworn the 30th. Day of Septr.
1755 before} Barth: Hammond< no role >

Phebe Venden< no role > This name instance is in set 2928.




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