Birch, John

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Dates 1753
Location Gloucester
Vocation Soldier
Place of Birth Edinburgh
Marriage Jane
Issue Tomsin
Place of birth Source Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, Q/RV/1/45

Soldier, imprisoned in Gloucester for desertion. His wife, Jane, was subsequently examined as a vagrant in Gloucester, 27 April 1753, where she was caught begging with their eight-month-old daughter. She is sent with a pass to Edinburgh, where John was born.