Parish Records St Leonard, Shoreditch, Hackneym London
Stephen Bust Hearsey son of Stephen and Lydia Hearsey of Long Alley, born ye 6th and baptised ye 29th December 1762

Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices’ Indetures City [London]
Thursday October 17, 1776, William Dodd of Saint Botolph Aldgate, Middlesex, Taylor, apprentice Stephen Hearsey
[Stephen would be the usual 14 years of age when he started his apprentice indenture. The usual lentgh would be 7 years]]

Middlesex to wit
These are to Certify That Stephen Burst Hearsey came this 18th Day of August One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Five before us Two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County, at Whitechapel, in the said County, and did then and there take Oath of Allegiance to His present Majesty King George the Third. And the Oath of Abjuration of the Pope’s Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Authority. And Also the Oath for the true and faithful Execution of such Office as he shall be appointed to execute, respecting his Majestyy’s Duties arising by the Excise. Given under our Hands the Day and Year above written.
John Staples
Samuel Hawkins

Parish Records St. Mary, Newington, Southwark, Surrey, London
January 17 1796
Stephen Bust Hearsey of this Parish Batchelor and
Sarah Ann Mitchell of this Parish Widow
by Banns by Robert Dickenson, Curate
SIgned Stephen Bust Hearsey and Sarah Ann Mitchell
in the presence of John Hill and Thomas White