St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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15th December 1777 - February 1779

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Image 28 of 13024th March 1778


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Sarah Bowyer< no role > This name instance is in set 21684406. the wife of Thomas
Bowyer
< no role > This name instance is in set 2170. This set is in the group(s): FamilyBowyer . waterman maketh oath That her Said husband
is lately gone away from her to places unknown & left her
destitute of Support That She has been informed by her Said
husband & which She believes to be true That divers years ago
he was duly bound Apprentice to his Grandfathr. Thomas
Fowles
< no role > of Water Lane in the Parish of St Mary Magdalen
Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Waterman with
Whom he Served the Whole of his Apprenticeship in the Said
Parish & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there
That he never (to her Knowledge or belief) rented a house of
Ten pounds a year or upwards nor ever Served any Parish
Office or ever paid any poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor
ever did any Act to gain a Settlement Subsequent to his
Apprenticeship That She was lawfully married to her Said
husband by Whom She hath a Child now living named
Rosamond < no role > This name instance is in set 2167. This set is in the group(s): FamilyBowyer . Aged about Sixteen Months the lawful Issue
of this Deponent by her Said husband.


Sworn this 24 day of
March 1778 before
P. Rowlands Jasper Clarkey< no role >

The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Bowyer< no role > This name instance is in set 4406.

Note the Pauper being removed by Wapping to Bermondsey
in June 1777 deposed as follows viz That abt 3 years ago She
was Married to one Thos Bowyer< no role > That her husband was bound
Apprentice to David Ward Hall< no role > of St Dunstan in the East Londn
Waterman for 7 yrs. that he duly Servd all his Apprenticesp
but during all the time lodged in the house of his Grandfar.
Thomas Fowles< no role > in Water Lane Bermondsey Parish.




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