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 141 of 3854th January 1787


Saint Clement Danes

Middx
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Mary Pickering< no role > This name instance is in set 628. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . Aged 33 years upon her
Oath saith that she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes that she lived as a hired
yearly Servant with Mr. Ridgway in White Horse
Yard in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
County of Middlesex for Six years at the yearly
Wages of Five Pounds hath quitted said Service
about Eight years ago since which time she has
not lived as a hired yearly Servant for one year
Rented House Tenement or Lodging of £10 a year
paid Taxes 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
of Saint Clement Danes That one John Rider< no role >
a Waiter who lives at the Sign of the Six Bells in
Dove Court Lombard Street is the father thereof
he having had Carnal knowledge of this Examts.
Body sometime in the Month of April
last and at several times since at one of
which times he did beget the said Child or
Children of which she is so pregnant and that
the said John Rider< no role > is the only real & true father
thereof

Sworn this 4th.
Janry. 1787 } D Walker

her
Mary [mark] Pickering< no role >
Mark

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