St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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18th March 1786 - 11th May 1792

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Image 138 of 38520th December 1787


Saint Clement Danes

Middx
&
Westmr.}

to wit Jane Challis< no role > This name instance is in set 567. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 23 years upon
her Oath saith that she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes that she lived as a hired
yearly Servant with one Mr. Dobey in Carey Street
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County
of Middlesex for Eighteen Months and upwards at
the yearly wages of Four Guineas that she hath
quitted said Service about Eight years since which
time she hath not lived as a hired yearly Servant
for one year or done any Act to gain a Subsequent
Settlement And further this Examinant upon
her Voluntary Oath saith that 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 That one Adam
Wood
< no role > who lives Servant to Mr.Orme the Distiller in
the Borough is the father thereof he having had
Carnal knowledge of this Examinants Body
sometime in the Month of May last and at
several times since at one of which times he did
beget the said Child or Children of which this
Examinant is so pregnant And that the said
Adam Wood< no role > is the only Real and true father
thereof

Sworn this 20th.
day of Decr. 1787 } R Butler

her
Jane [mark] Challis< no role >
Mark




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