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

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Saint Clement Danes

Middlesex

to wit Elsibar Watson< no role > This name instance is in set 820. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about 27 years
upon her Oath saith that about 9 years ago she
Intermarried with William Watson< no role > her late husband
at the Parish Church of Saint Giles Cripplegate that
she has no Child or Children living by her said
Husband that her said Husband has been from
this Examinant about Seven years that she heard
about Three years ago that he was dead that she
has not seen or heard from him sinceshe had this Information
which said Information she verily believes to be true
that her said Husband Served his Time as an
Apprentice to a Mr. Hill in Little Britain that after
he was out of his said Apprenticeship he never
did any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement And
further this Examinant upon her oath saith that on
the 6th. day of August last she this Examinant was
delivered of a Male Bastard Child at the House of a
Mr. Crutchley No. 15 Old Boswell Court in the parish
of Saint Clement Danes which hath since been
baptized by the Name of Samuel Thomas< no role > That one
Thomas Acton< no role > Coachman to Mr. Armstrong in
Carey Street is the father thereof he having had Carnal
knowledge of this Examinants Body for these Six
years last past and begotten the same thereon and
that the said Thomas Acton< no role > is the only real and
true father thereof

Sworn this 6th. day
of Decr. 1788 } R Butler

her
Elsibar [mark] Watson
Mark




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