St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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6th March 1766 - 23rd May 1769

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Image 175 of 38711th August 1767


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Mary Walford< no role > aged about 25 Years, Upon
Oath, says she never was married nor ever was
an Apprentice or a yearly hired Servant for one
Year, says she has been informed a which information
she verily believeth to be true that her Father
Jonathan Walford< no role > deceased served three Years
the last part of his Apprenticeship with Mr. Jaques
at the Castle in Portugal Street in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westminster and never
Rented Ten Pounds a year or paid Taxes to this Examinant
knowledge or belief and further upon her Voluntary
Oath says she is pregnant with Child or Children
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards and to become chargeable to the said
Parish of St. Clement Danes she being poor and
unable to maintain the same when born, says
that James Little< no role > Servant to Mr. Emmett Cowkeeper
in Kent Street Road in Surry had carnal knowledge
of her body sometime in the Month of January
last and at several other times since at one
of which times he got her with Child of the Child
or Children with which she is now pregnant &
that the said James Little< no role > and no other Person
did beget the same.

Sworn 11th. Augst. 1767 ,
before} Thos Kynaston< no role >

The Mark of
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Mary Walford< no role >




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