| Examination Text | Thomas Stubbs aged 36 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St. John at Wapping upon his oath saith that he never was bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes or was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together, that his Father Edward Stubbs was an Armourer by trade and served his apprenticeship in St Martin's Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid, but to whom or when his time expired he this Examinant can't tell, that he never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes or was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since, that he this Examinant has three children living, to wit Mary aged 16 years, a servant at [blank] Kings in Rosemary Lane, Thomas aged 11 years (which said two children he had by Susannah his former wife) and William aged three years whom he had by his present wife Mary, to whom he was married at the ffleet eight years ago, that the said two last mention children and wife are now with this Examinant in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid. Taken in the workhouse the eighth day of March 1750. |
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