| Examination Text | The Examination of Celestine De [Farquar] in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this 30th Day of December 1782. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 23 years of age, that she never was married, that she was on the 13th Day of November last delivered in the workhouse aforesaid of a Male bastard child (since christened Francis) yet living and is become chargeable to the Parish aforesaid, and Francis (commonly called) Laridon a Hair Dresser lately at a hair dresser's in Dix Street in Piccadilly did beget on her body the said Male bastard child, and that he the said Francis Laridon is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year first above written before Thomas Bullard, William Hyde. |
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