Godfrey Collyer
16-12-2004, 10:30 AM
Entry in the Parish Records for Enborne, Berkshire.
27 October 1724.
Jane Jones, a traveller, lodged in the barn of Thomas Smith of Enborne and she happened to be in labour that night. Thomas Smith hearing of it came to her and told her that she should not lie in there and directed her to the next ale house, the Bishop’s Head in Newbury and gave her a shilling.
John Cooper who lived at the Bishop’s Head would not entertain her but forced her out of his house and the child was born in the courtyard but after that she and her child were taken into the house.
At the end of a fortnight and 4 days the officers of Newbury sent the said Jane Jones and her 2 children to the parish of Enborne by a vagrant pass it being the last place where the said Jane Jones was relieved.
The Officers of Newbury would not suffer the child to be baptised in their parish and therefore the minister of Enborne was under necessity of baptising the child.
This I have written to testify that though the child was baptised at Enborne, it was born in the parish of Newbury 27 October, 1724 the night before St. Simon and St. Jude Feast.
William Dashwood.
Rector of Enborne
24 Nov 1724
27 October 1724.
Jane Jones, a traveller, lodged in the barn of Thomas Smith of Enborne and she happened to be in labour that night. Thomas Smith hearing of it came to her and told her that she should not lie in there and directed her to the next ale house, the Bishop’s Head in Newbury and gave her a shilling.
John Cooper who lived at the Bishop’s Head would not entertain her but forced her out of his house and the child was born in the courtyard but after that she and her child were taken into the house.
At the end of a fortnight and 4 days the officers of Newbury sent the said Jane Jones and her 2 children to the parish of Enborne by a vagrant pass it being the last place where the said Jane Jones was relieved.
The Officers of Newbury would not suffer the child to be baptised in their parish and therefore the minister of Enborne was under necessity of baptising the child.
This I have written to testify that though the child was baptised at Enborne, it was born in the parish of Newbury 27 October, 1724 the night before St. Simon and St. Jude Feast.
William Dashwood.
Rector of Enborne
24 Nov 1724