Examination Text | Elizabeth Turner aged upwards of 32 years lodging with her mother at the Bull Head house in Hungerford Market in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith she was married to her husband John Turner (who is now soldier in Colonel Paulet's Regiment of Foot at Canterbury) at the Hand and Pen in the Fleet nine years ago, that he was a Barber and Peruke Maker by trade and was bound apprentice by indenture for seven years to one Richard Warrim in Blue Cross Street in Hedge Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields where and with whom he served four years thereof, and then his said master failing by his consent he went to live in One Tun Alley in the said Parish with one King a Barber there with whom he served the remainder of his apprenticeship, since the expiration, whereof which she believes is about 11 years ago, he hath never kept house rented 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes or been a yearly hired servant, that she is now big with child or children by her said husband but has none living. Sworn the 24th Day of August 1743 before James Fraser. |