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 63 of 3957th October 1755


Middx


Mary Stanley< no role > aged abt. Thirty Years Upon Oath Says he was
never Marryed that she lived a hired Yearly Servt. with Sd.
Richd. Adams< no role > for one Year & upwards at the Yearly Wages of
five Poundsthat she lived upwards of three Months
the last part of her sd. Service at Sd. Richards House in Bloombury
Square in the Parish of St. George Bloomsbury in the County of
Middx & hath quitted her sd. Service abt. two Months And
further upon her Voluntary Oath Says She is Pregnant with
Child or Children wch is likely to be Born a Bastard or
Bastards & to become chargeable to the Parish of St. Clemt.
Danes where She now Lodges She being poor & unable to maintain
the same Says one Henry Thorp< no role > did beget the sd. Bastard Child
or Children on her Body he the sd. Henry Thorp< no role > (and this Exaiant
liveing fellow Servts. at Sr. Richd. Adams< no role > in Bloomsbury Square
aforesd.) had Carnall knowledge of this Examinant twice in the
Month of Janry last at one of wch times he got her with Child
of the sd. Bastard Child or Children with wch she is now Pregnant

Sworn the 7th. day of
Octr. 1755 before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The mark [mark] of Mary Stanley< no role >




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