| Examination Text | The Examination of Catherine Gormon in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this 18th Day of February 1773. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is about 63 years of age, that she is the widow of Lawrence Gormon (who died about 7 years ago) to whom she was married at the parish church of Eaststonehouse [sic] in the County of Devon the 23rd of March 1761, that her said husband was born in the Kingdom of Ireland as she this Examinant hath been informed and verily believes, that he was a Sailor, that he never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place in England to this Examinant's knowledge, that before her intermarriage to the said Lawrence Gormon she was the widow of Thomas Culmerlutter [sic] (who died about [blank] years ago) to whom she was married after the manner of the Church of Rome at the house of Mr Jarratt a Chandler near Coventry Court in that part of the Haymarket which is in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields in the year 1749, that her said husband Thomas was born in the Kingdom of Italy as she this Examinant hath been informed and verily believes, that her said husband Thomas was a Linguist, that he never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes for 12 months together in England to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this Examinant never was bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together, that her father Robert Coster (who died when she was about seven years of age) was a Sailor as she hath heard and was born in the County of Suffolk as she hath also heard, but the particular part she this Examinant cannot tell, that her father never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes bound an apprentice nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together to this Examinant's knowledge, that after the death of her father her mother intermarried [blank] Jarratt a Chandler who lived in and rented an house near Coventry Court in that part of the Haymarket which is in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and there died, that her mother continued in and rented the said house after the decease of her said husband Jarratt for a considerable time, but how long what rent she paid for the same nor when quitted the said house she this Examinant cannot tell, that her mother never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes afterwards to this Examinant's knowledge. Taken in the workhouse the day and year above written. |
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