Examination Text | Temperance Cullis aged 81 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith that she is the widow of Thomas Cullis (who died about 30 years ago) to whom she was married at St Bridget, vulgarly St Brides, Church London about 50 years ago, that he was a Founder by trade and was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to Mr Davis a Founder at the house (now Mr Mist) in Long Acre in the Parish of St Martin the Fields aforesaid and there served all his time out, that he never kept house rented £10 by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant since the expiration of his said apprenticeship, nor hath she is she this Examinant since the death her said husband. Taken in the workhouse the 27th Day of September 1756. |