St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th October 1763 - 5th March 1766

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Image 299 of 36430th August 1765


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Mary Blake< no role > This name instance is in set 2239. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 35 Years Upon Oath says
she is the Wife of Peter Blake< no role > with whom she intermarried in
the Parish Church of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of
Middlesex about three Years ago by whom she hath one Child
named James < no role > aged about Six Months, says her said husband
is a Native of Ireland and never gained a Settlement in
England to her knowledge or belief that her said husband
is gone from her and is now in the Kingdom of Ireland as she
this Examinant has been informed and which information
she believes to be true; says before her intermarriage with
the said Peter Blake< no role > and whilst she was a Single Woman
she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Dickey a
Taylor in Villiers Street York Buildings in the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields in the Liberty of Westminster
for One Year and Upwards at the Yearly Wages of Six
Pounds and after she quitted said Mr. Dickey's Service
never Rented Ten Pounds a Year paid Taxes or lived a
Yearly hired servant for one Year And further upon
her Voluntary Oath says that sometime in the Month
of August 1758, she (being then a Single Woman and had
never been Married) was delivered of a Male Bastard
Child in the house of Mr. Bennett a Perukemaker in
Charles Court in the Strand in the Parish of St. Martin
aforesaid in the Liberty of Westminster which hath since
been Baptised Edward < no role > and is now living says that one
James Logan< no role > a Taylor was the reputed Father of the
said Child, and that the said James Logan< no role > died on the
26th. of April 1760.

Sworn the 30th. day of
August 1765 , before} Fran Cary< no role > Thos: Balack< no role >

Mary Blake< no role >




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