| Examination Text | Elizabeth Claxton aged about 25 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed as a vagrant from the Parish of St. James Westminster upon her oath saith that she is the wife of Joseph Claxton (gone from her) to whom she was married at the Parish Church of St. Peter in the city of Bristol about one year and an half ago, that her said husband hath informed this Examinant that he was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to a Cabinet Maker in Long Acre in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid, but the master's name she cannot tell, and there served about two years and then his master failed, and this Examinant's husband was at large, that her said husband was not assigned to any other Master, that he never 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 since he quitted his said Master's service to this Examinant's knowledge, that she hath one child living by her said husband to wit Phebe aged one year and upwards now with this Examinant. Sworn the 14th Day of November 1767 before Peter Planck. |
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