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 120 of 36826th February 1777


Middlesex
&
Westmr.}

Susannah Charlton< no role > Aged about Twenty four
Years on her Oath Says she never was married
Rented House was an Apprentice or lived a hired
Yearly Servant for one Year Says her Father George
Charlton
< no role > Rents and lives in a House in Bennetts Court
Drury Lane in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the
Liberty of Westmr . and has so done for upwards of Six
Months last past at the Yearly Rent of Ten pounds
as she believes 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 Chargable to the said Parish she being poor
and unable to maintain the same when born And that
One William Careing< no role > who keep [..] a House the Third or
fourth Court from Holbourn in Fleet Markett but what
Business he follows she cannot set forth is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
on the Sixteenth of October last at his the said William
Careings
< no role > House aforesaid at which time he got her
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
now Pregnant and that the said William Careing< no role > &
no other person did beget the same and that he is
the real and true Father thereof.


Sworn this 26th. day
of Febry. 1777 before
R Butler

Susannah Charlwood< no role >




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