St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th August 1757 - 16th September 1760

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Image 364 of 41118th April 1760


Middx. & Westmr.


Elizth: Cort< no role > This name instance is in set 1066. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged abt. 19 Years upon Oath says
she never was Married and that she lived a hired
Yearly Servant with Mrs. Lister Bookseller in the
Strand in the Parish of St. Clemt. Danes in the County
of Middx for 15 Months at the Yearly Wages of
£4 and hath Quitted said Service abt. 3 Months
And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is
pregnant with Child or Children which is likely
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
chargeable to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
she being Poor & unable to Maintain She same
when Born Says that Wm. Carden< no role > This name instance is in set 2027. a Carpenters who
lodges at the Magpye in Butcher Row in the said
Parish had carnal knowledge of her Body at the
house of the said Mrs. Lister sometime in the
beginning of August 1759 and at sevl. other times
since at one of which times he got her with Child
of the Child or Children with which She is now
pregnant and that the said Wm. Carden< no role > & no others
Person is the true & Real father thereof

Sworn April 18th. 1760 .
before me} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The Mark of
[mark]
Eliz: Cort< no role >

Upon Mr. Burnthwaites
Complaint
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