St Martin's Settlement Exams:
St Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793
2nd November 1767
| Unique Project ID | 54376 |
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| Examination Text | Margaret Sheldon aged 46 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St Giles Cripplegate London upon her oath saith that she is the wife of Joseph Sheldon (gone from her) to whom she was married at the Fleet the third Day of March in the year 1754, that her said husband was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to Joshua Evans a Shoemaker, that the last 40 days or upwards of his said apprenticeship was at the sign of the Porcupine in that part of Newport Street which is in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid, that her said husband never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor been a yearly hired servant since he quitted his said Master's service as aforesaid. Taken in the workhouse the second Day of November 1767. Sworn the third Day of November 1767 before Peter Planck. |
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| Manuscript Reference | F5056 |
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| Forename | Margaret |
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| Surname |
Sheldon< no role >
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| Male OR Female | female |
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| Age | 46 |
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| Date of Examination | 02/11/1767 |
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| Examination Outcome | N.S.W. |
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| Page Number | 231 |
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| Signed OR Marked | marked
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