St Martin's Settlement Exams:
St Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793
22nd December 1737
| Unique Project ID | 2593 |
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| Examination Text | Elizabeth Moss aged forty seven years (in the workhouse) Saith she is the widow of William Moss who dyed ago to whom she was marryed at the ffleet Chapell twenty seven years since that her said Husband was a Saddle tree Maker and was bound an Apprentice by Indentures for seven Years to one Benjamin Steele who during the first of his Apprenticeship lived in Spur Alley and from thence afterwards removed into a Court at Charing Cross opposite the Meuse Gate in the parish of St Martin in the ffields and that her said husband there served the latter Part of his Apprenticeship and that he never kept any house rented ten pounds by the year paid any parish Taxes or was a yearly hired Servant afterwards that she hath two Sons by him to wit Robert aged twenty two years a Glover to which Business he served an Apprenticeship in Blackffryars and William aged sixteen years now an Apprentice at Moorgate Coffee house by Moorffields Sworn the Day of rem fr Cripplegate |
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| Manuscript Reference | F5029 |
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| Forename | Elizabeth |
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| Surname |
Moss< no role >
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| Male OR Female | female |
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| Age | 47 |
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| Date of Examination | 22/12/1737 |
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| Page Number | 287 |
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| Signed OR Marked | unsigned/unmarked
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