St Clement Danes Parish:
Registers of Poor Children under 14 years in Parish Care
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1767 - 1786

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Year176 1779

Schedule C.

Annual Register of the Parish Poor Children until they are APPRENTICED out, from the 1st. day of January 1779, to the 31st. day of December;
of the PARISH of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middx (where there is not a Work-house or Parish-House) according to the Acts of
Parliament of the Second and Seventh of his Majesty King George the Third.

London Sold by T. Major Engraver;
on the Pav'd Stones St. Martins Lane.

NB It will be most Convenient to abreviate these Months thus Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

Name of the Child.
If a Foundling, markF.
If a BastardB.
If a CasualtyC.
If the same Child is taken in a second
time mark the second Entry of the
Name2.
If a third time3.
Etc.

Age
real or
reputed.
YearsY.
MonthsM.
DaysD.

When received
under the Care
of the Parish.
If bornB.

If Money be
received with any
Child, what Sum,
such Sum not to be
transferred from
Year to Year.

Name and place of Abode
of the Person by whom the Child
is received on the Parish Account,
till sent into the Country.

Where sent if received
past Six Years of Age,
and in what Work
employed,
If can readr.
If can say his or her
prayersp.
If bothr.p.

When sent to the Hospital
for exposed and deserted
Young Children.
If removed or passed, to
what Place.
If discharged from the Parish,
to whom delivered, and where
living.

Nurse's Name to whom delivered
to be nursed.
If a wet Nurse, markW.
If a dry NurseD.
If the Nurse dies, or is changed,
write the Name of the new Nurse
under the former.
If nursed by the Mother,
markM.

Place where the
Nurse lives, in what
Street, or near what
Sign so as to be
found.

Price of nursing each Week.

Bounty
to
Nurses.

If died
at Nurse,
when.

If discharged from the
Parish, mention to whom
and where living.
If apprenticed out, or
placed out to service,
mention Folio in the
Apprentice Register.

Williams Thomas< no role >
Y.
1.
M.
D.
10th. Nov. 1778
£.
S.
D.
Nurse Prestnall
Low Layton
2..6
£.
S.
D.

Whitfiled Clement Ann
6.
10
13th Decr. 1778
Nurse Seedwell
Do
2..6

Walker Sarah< no role > This name instance is in set 4788.
2
8
20th. Apr. 1778
Nurse Terry
Do
2..6
taken away 31st Augt. 1779

Weatherspoon Esther< no role >
3
8
12th. Augt. 1777
Nurse Weldon
Do.
2..6

Wozencroft Wm. Jas.
2..
8
15th. June 79
Nurse Graves
Do.
3
10


Thos. Rust< no role >
Wm. Williams< no role >
Ragh Williams< no role >
Sal Bean< no role >
Wm. Barker< no role >
Jos. Marshall< no role >
W Bird Jun
Vestry Men


Rob Jones< no role >
Sampn Rainfosh< no role >
Clurchwdns.

Jas Speediman< no role >
Wm. Anderson< no role >
William Gibbson< no role > } Overseers of the Poor

Memorandum 282 Children were
Relieved by this Parish in this Year in the
Workhouse at Nurse at Low Layton ;
and in their Friends hands 262 of which
are now Remaining Alive as near as Can be
Ascertained.

Witness of the Signing hereof
Petr Sidebotham< no role > &
Deputy Vestry Clerk




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