Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766John Black, Tim Hitchcock Records of settlement and bastardy examinations held in the parish of Chelsea in the mid-eighteenth century. The examinations give new insight into the nature of family relationships among the least articulate members of eighteenth-century society. In a whole range of ways the material reproduced here adds a new level of complexity to our understanding of eighteenth-century London and its environs, and the experiences of the approximately fifty per cent of the population who were likely to need relief from the parish at some point during their lives. The volume provides a great deal of information on migration, patterns of courtship and the experience of working and living within the rapidly changing social welfare provision of mid-eighteenth century London. |
Contents
CHELSEA SETTLEMENT AND BASTARDY | 1 |
EXAMINATIONS 17501766 70 | 54 |
INDEX | 154 |
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Common terms and phrases
act or thing aged annum Benjamin Cox blank born bound an apprentice carnal knowledge Chelsea aforesaid Chelsea Hospital child or children continued and served county of Middlesex county of Surrey examinant further says examinant says examinant's examination of Elizabeth Fleet Fulham full wages gain a legal gain a settlement Henry Fielding Henry Villiers John late husband legal settlement liberty of Westminster lived a servant London mark of Elizabeth meat Middlesex sessions oath saith oath says paid any parochial parish of Chelsea parish of St Passed to St pensioner of Chelsea Peter Elers esq present wife rented a house Robert Mann Samuel Bever Sarah servant hired single woman St Andrew Holborn St Clement Danes St James St Martin subsequent settlement Sworn at Chelsea taken upon oath Thomas de Veil Thomas Kynaston unlawfully begotten upwards vizt voluntary examination washing and lodging whereby to gain widow William workhouse yearly hired servant