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 313 of 4043rd January 1772


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to wit Dorothy Chamberlain< no role > Aged about Thirty Seven
Years on her Oath says she is the Widow of James
Chamberlain
< no role > who has been dead about Eight Years and
with whom she Intermarried at the Parish Church of
Weymouth in the County of Dorset about Twenty Years
ago Says that being a Widow and without Child or Children
she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Elvins a Hair
Dresser in the Strand in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Country of Middlesex for one Year and Nine Months
at the Yearly Wages if five Pounds hath quitted her said
Service about five Years ago and hath not since she quitted
the same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired
Yearly Servant for one Year Says that on the 2d. day of
December 1771 she was delivered of a Female Bastard
Child in the House of John Coram< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. in Pettycoat Lane in
Parish of Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of Middlesex
which hath since been baptized Dorothy Graham< no role > Says the
one George Graham< no role > late Portor to Mr. Allanson Mercer
in St. Clement Church Yard but where he now is she cannot
tells Unless he is to be heard of at his Aunts at the sign of
the ship in Hanover Street near Rotherhith Church Wapping
is the Father of the said Female Bastard Child he having had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month of
February 1771 but the Particular day she does not now remember
and at sevl. different times afterwards in his the sd. Mr. Allansons house
& that he and no other person did beget the same & that he is the
real and true Father thereof

Sworn this 3d. day of
January 1772 } Tho. Kynaston< no role >

her
Dorothy [mark] Chamberlain< no role >
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