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 124 of 3686th March 1777


Middx
&
Westmr.}

Mary Totthill< no role > aged about 26 Years on her Oath says
she never was married Rented House paid Taxes or
Says she lives
as a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr. Hall a Mate in
the East India Service who now lodges at Mr. Barrons a
Brazier in Surry Street in the Strand in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes in the County of Middx and has so done
for upwards of one Year and an half at the Yearly Wages
of Seven Pounds And further upon her Voluntary Oath
says she is pregnant with Child or Childn. which is or are
likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
chargeable to the said Parish she being poor & unable
to maintain the same when born And that one Willm-
Taylor
< no role > Clerk to the said Mr Barron but where he now lives she does not know is the Father
thereof he having had carnal Knowl of her Body
sometime in the Month of June last but the partlon
Day she does not now remember & at sevl- Different
times afterwds- at one of which times he got her with
Child of the Child or Children of which he is now
pregnant & that the sd- Wm- Taylor< no role > & no other person
did beget the same & that he is the real and true
Father thereof.


Sworn this 6th- Day of
March 1777 before me
R Butler

Mary Tothill< no role >




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