St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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12th October 1768 - 21st October 1772

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Image 161 of 40412th July 1770


Middlesex
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Margaret Hill< no role > Aged about Twenty Eight Years on her Oath Says
she never was Married nor ever Rented House or paid Taxes Says
she lived a Hired Yearly Servant with the late George Westron< no role > a
Hosier in the parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of
Middlesex for Nine Months at the Yearly Wages of Seven Pounds
and then her said Master died and this Examinant further Saith
that one Mr: James Green< no role > on her said Master's dying took her said
late Master's House who continued her as a Yearly hired Servant
at and under the same Wages and has lived with the said Mr: Green
for Six Months or thereabouts And further upon her Voluntary
Oath Says she is Pregnant with a Child or Children which is or are
likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargeable
to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes she being Poor and
unable to maintain the same when born Says that one Philip
Westron
< no role > [..] Gentleman who (as this Examinant has heard and believes) now lives at Mr: Kings in Fore Street in the City of
Exeter had Carnal knowledge of her Body sometime
in the Month of September last but the particular day she does not
now remember and at several different times afterwards at one of
which times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
she is now Pregnant as aforesaid And that the said Philip Westron< no role >
and no other person did beget the same and that he is the real and
true Father thereof


Sworn this 12th: day of July 1770
before me
W Kelyngs

Margret Hill< no role >




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