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Folio.313- 315 Susanna Jeakins, wife of William Jeakins of St Paul, Labourer as to the settlement of her illegitimate son William Hadden.

9 November 1827

From: 1827 To: 1827

About 19 years ago I was an unmarried woman living at Wellingborough, County of Northampton and being with child I left Wellingborough and went o Stoke Albany, County of Northampton, my place of settlement by birth. The parish officers of Stoke Albany took me to a Magistrate and i swore the child i was then pregnant with to John Hadden who had lived at Wellingborough but had left that place. Not having any connexions at Stoke Albany I was very anxious to lie in at Wellingborough where I had acquaintances. Mr Branson one of the parish officers of Stoke Albany, took me in a cart to Wellingborough and delivered me to the overseers of that parish who placed me in their parish house where I was brought to bed of my son William Hadden. in seven weeks and two days after I was delivered as aforesaid the parish officers of Stoke Albany brought the above named John Hadden to Wellingborough, I having again sworn my child William Hadden to him after birth. I was then married at Wellingborough to John Hadden who quitted me the same day and I have not heard from him since. The parish officers of Wellingborough told this Examinant that the parish officers of Stoke Albany had paid them five pounds for the expenses of my lying in and for the maintenance since of me and my then infant.

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Hadden, William,
Hadden, John,
Jeakins, Susanna,
Jeakins, William

BEDFORD, Stoke Albany, Wellingborough, POVERTY, Poor Laws, Settlement, settlements, Overseers, bastardy, MARRIAGE