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Isle of Ely to Wit
The examination of widow Ann Pettit widow taken on
Oath before us two of his Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace in and for the said Isle ( and one of us of the
Quorum) this 20th Day of March 1773.
Who upon her said Oath saith she is aged about
Thirty eight years was born in the Parish of Burwell
In the county of Cambridge, that about seventeen
Years since she intermarried with one William Pettit
Bricklayer that he informed this Examt and she believes
it is true that her said husband husband before his marriage
lived with one William ?aeborn of this Parish of Burwell
for one year and that he received his full years wages
for the same which she has heard was five Pounds and
at the end of that year he continued as an inhabitant
in the said Parish of Burwell for fourteen years then next
till he went to live in the Parish of Downham in the said
Isle where he gained no Settlement and during which
Marriage she had three children /\ which are now -?- John aged fourteen years Ann aged
eleven & William aged firve years.
Taken on Oath before us The
day and year first above written
her
Ann (w) Pettit
Mark
(the styalised witness signatures look like)
Jacob(?) Drage
-?- Haddington
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