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<p n="233"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-1">Sarah Wickham</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ178">Widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-2">John<lb></lb>
Wickham</rs>
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deced maketh oath That about Twenty one<lb></lb>
Years ago She was lawfully married to her Said late<lb></lb>
husband at <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo305"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo306"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo307">St Johns Church</rs>
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Exeter</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Devon</rs>
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Who as he has informed her & which She believes<lb></lb>
to be true was an Irishman by birth & never did any<lb></lb>
Act to gain a Settlement in Great Britain That about<lb></lb>
Seven Years ago She was married to one <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-3">Thomas Conner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Since deced by a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ179">Romish Priest</rs>
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in a Dwelling house in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo308"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo309"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo310">Holloway Lane</rs>
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Shoreditch</rs>
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in the Said County of<lb></lb>
Middx</rs>
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Which Marriage as She this Deponent has been<lb></lb>
advised & believes was wholy Void in Law That after<lb></lb>
the death of her Said husband Wickham & Previous to her<lb></lb>
Marriage with the sd <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-4">Thomas Conner</rs>
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& whilst she was<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ180">Widow</rs>
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& having no Child then living She was hired &<lb></lb>
lived as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ181">hired Servant</rs>
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by the Year at Certain Wages<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-5">William Bradley</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo311"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo312">parish of St Botolph<lb></lb>
without Aldgate</rs>
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in the sd County of Middx</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ182">Victualler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& Continued in Such Service for the Space of a Year and<lb></lb>
upwards & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement<lb></lb>
there That she this Depont has not Since lived as a hired<lb></lb>
Servant for a year no done any Act to gain a Subsequent<lb></lb>
Settlement other than What She might have Acquired<lb></lb>
by her Marriage with the sd Wickham That She this<lb></lb>
Depont. hath a Child now living aged about Seventeen<lb></lb>
Months which was born in a place Called the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo313"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo314">Dark Entry</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Said Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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The<lb></lb>
Which Child is a Bastard & hath been Since baptized &<lb></lb>
registred by the name of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-6">Sarah Wickham</rs>
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& that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n233-7">Thomas Bercraft</rs>
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late of the Same Parish <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ183">Shoemaker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
deced was the Father of the Said Child.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10315_date84">9th day of<lb></lb>
November 1775</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n234-1">Geo. C. Smith</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="235">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n235-1">Sarah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Wickham</rs>
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