| Examination Text | Ann Crossby aged 30 years and upwards upon her oath saith that she is the wife Alexander Crossby (who has been gone from a about four months) to whom she was married at St Anne's Church Westminster nine years ago, that he is a Half Pay Officer and that he lived in and rented a house (now a perfumer's) next the Admiralty Coffee House near Charing Cross in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of six months and upwards at the yearly rent of 40 pounds besides taxes, quitted the same about six months ago, that he has not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year or paid any parish taxes since to her knowledge, that she has two children living by her said husband to wit Henry Augustus Montague aged seven years and upwards and Grace Elizabeth aged four years and a half who are both now at Mrs Chambers's at Camberwell in the County of Surry, and that she this Examinant was delivered of a dead child the first instant of and in the workhouse in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid. Taken in the workhouse the second Day of April 1750. |
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