St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th May 1776 - 15th March 1779

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Image 99 of 36818th December 1776


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Sarah Fielder< no role > This name instance is in set 1054. This set is in the group(s): MothersCD . aged about twenty seven Years
on her Oath says she never was married rented house
or paid Taxes says she lived as a hired yearly Servant
with Mr. Peter Sidebotham< no role > Attornoy in Caroy Street
Lincolns Inn in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in
the Liberty of Westminster upwards of Fifteen Months
at the Yearly Wages of £5s. hath quitted her said
Service about two Months ago and hath not since
she quitted the same done any Act where by to gain
a subsequent Settlement And further upon her
Voluntary Oath says she is Pregnant with Child or
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards and to become chargeable to the said Parish of
St. Clement Danes she being poor and unable to maintain
the same when born says that one Thomas Layton< no role >
Apprentice to one Mr. Rugg working silversmith at No. 35 in St. John Square
Clerkenwell is the Father thereof he having had Carnal
Knowledge of her Body the latter end of May last but
the particular Day she does not now remember and
at sevl. different times afterwards at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
now pregnant and that the said Thos. Layton< no role > and no
other person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 18th. Day of
Decr. 1776 before me
M A

her
Sarah [mark] Fielder< no role >
Mark




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