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 274 of 40426th June 1771


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to wit Sarah Haynes< no role > Aged about fifty Years in her Oath
Says she is the Widow of John Haynes< no role > who has been dead
about Seventeen Years & with whom she Intermarried at
the Fleet London in the Year 1747 Says her said late
Husband lived as a hired Yearly Servant with on Mr. Godfrey
a Drugest in Southampton Street in the Parish of St. Paul
Covent Garden for one Year & a Quarter at the Yearly Wages of
Three Pounds as her said Husband has often Informed her and
which Information she verily believes to be true and after he
quitted his said Service he went to live with one Mr. Ellis an
Attorney in Clements Inn but how long he lived with the said
Mr. Ellis or whr. as a hired Yearly Servant or how orwise
this Examinant cannot say but [..] it was says it was not
Twelve Months before this Examinant married to her said late Husband and the reason for her belief is because
that soon after her sd. Intermarriage the sd. Mr. Ellis removed into
the Temple & her said Husband Continued to live with him for
some Years and after he quitted the sd. Mr. Ellis's Service [..] &
went to live with one Mr. Landcake in the Parish of St.
Brides in the City of London and her said Husband soon
afterwards falling into a Consumption and being in low
Circumstances applyed to the then Parish Officers of Saint
Brides for releif who on such Application removed her said
Husband by Order from the said Parish of St. Brides to the
sd. Parish of St. Pauls Covent Garden upwards of 17 Years ago
& where her said Husband died & this Examinant has had
relieif at times ever since And Says she can give no further or
other Acct. of her said Husbands Settlemt. than as aforementioned
neither has this Examinant gained any or.Subsequent Settlement since
her said Husbands Death either by Renting House paying Taxes or living a
hired Yearly Servant for one Year.

Sworn this 26th. day of June
1771 before}




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