St Martin's Settlement Exams:
St Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793

6th January 1766



Unique Project ID59541
Examination TextAnn Clark aged 24 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St Clement Danes in the liberty of Westminster upon her oath saith that she never was married bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor hath been a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together, that her father John Clark was a Peruke Maker by trade and lived in and rented a house in that part of Whitcombe Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid for the space of 18 years at the yearly rent of 18 pounds besides taxes and there died, and this Examinant on her oath further saith that she was on the fourth Day of January in the year 1764 delivered at the house of Mr Robinson's, a Chandler near the sign of the Coach and Horses in that part of Water Lane in Fleet Street which is in the Parish of St Bridget alias St Brides London of a female bastard child (since christened Alchemere Ann [sic]) yet living and now in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid. Sworn the sixth Day of January 1766 before Thomas Balack, Fran. [Caryl].
Manuscript ReferenceF5054
ForenameAnn
Surname Clark< no role >
Male OR Femalefemale
Age24
Date of Examination06/01/1766
Examination OutcomeS.S.W.
Page Number412
Signed OR Marked marked



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