St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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13th July 1784 - 15th November 1785

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Image 51 of 12117th January 1785


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Margaret Pridham< no role > Widow of
William Pridham< no role > deced maketh oath that
her said late husband heretofore rented a house of
the yearly rent of twenty five pounds in the Parish
of St Botolph without Aldgate in the sd County &
was charged to & paid Poors Rates for the same
& deced in such house legally Settled in the said
Parish that she this Deponent after her said
husbands death was hired & lived as a hired Servant
by & with Mrs Uppom of James Street in the Parish
of St Paul Covent Gardne in the sd County Robemaker
at Certain Wages & Continued in such service under
such hiring for the Space of Eleven Months & no more
& received only eleven Months Wages She this Depont
being obliged by reason of Sickness to leave Such
her Service & did not afterwards return to her sd
Mistress That She this Depont Since her said
husbands death has not lived in any one place for
the Space of a year or been Married or done any
Act to her Knowledge or belief to gain a settlement
for herself & that She was lawfully married to her sd. husband.


Sworn this 17. day
of Janry 1785 before
R Smith

The Mark of
Margaret [mark] Pridham< no role > .




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