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<p n="26"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n26-1">Elizabeth Crooks</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10313_occ14">wife of</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n26-2">William Crooks</rs>
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who is <lb></lb>
lately gone away from her to Places unknown maketh oath that she <lb></lb>
can give no Account respecting the Settlement of her said husband or <lb></lb>
of his Parents that she this Deponent was born in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo38"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo39">Parish of <lb></lb>
St. James Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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where her late <lb></lb>
Father <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n26-5">Benjamin Waters</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10313_n26-5" type="surname" value="Waters"></interp>
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deced also rented a house of the yearly rent<lb></lb>
of Twenty Pounds as she this Deponent has been informed by him and<lb></lb>
believes & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there and that <lb></lb>
he did not afterwards to her knowledge or belief do any act to gain<lb></lb>
a Settlement elsewhere that she this Deponent never lived as a hired<lb></lb>
Servant for a year nor was ever bound apprentice nor ever did any <lb></lb>
Act to gain a Settlement for herself save what she Acquired by Virtue<lb></lb>
of her Marriage with her said husband whose Settlement is unknown<lb></lb>
to her that she this Deponent hath a child named <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n26-3">William George<lb></lb>
Crooks</rs>
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aged about Thirteen months the lawful Issue of this Deponent<lb></lb>
by her said husband that she this Deponent well knows a Child<lb></lb>
named <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n26-4">Ann Crooks</rs>
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the Daughter of her said husband by a former<lb></lb>
Wife deced aged about six years and who as this Deponent has been<lb></lb>
Credibly informed & verily believes was born in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo40"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo41">Parish of Saint <lb></lb>
John Wapping</rs>
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in the said County of Middlesex</rs>
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& has<lb></lb>
done no act to gain a settlement for herself & is likely to become Chargeable<lb></lb>
to the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo42"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10313_geo43">Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the said County</rs>
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and this<lb></lb>
Deponent can give no Account respecting the Settlement of such last<lb></lb>
mentioned Child's Mother.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10313_date12">7th. day of<lb></lb>
September 1773</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> B Camper <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n27-1">Jno. Sherwood</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="28">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10313_n28-1">Elizabeth Crooks</rs>
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