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Affiliation order or Bastardy Index?
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Familyfinder | Report | 11 Jan 2014 13:30 |
Ahhh thanks Mavis and Christine - we have no idea who he was-so he may have been -or not! but the record books were damaged apparently . Think I'll have to give up on that one. |
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Mavis | Report | 7 Jan 2014 18:46 |
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Christine | Report | 7 Jan 2014 17:06 |
I was able to look at the record books in Liverpool. Had to make an appointment and tell them which years so they could get them out ready for us. My grandad had to pay 7/6 a week for my dad. The court order was in 1928. |
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Familyfinder | Report | 7 Jan 2014 15:05 |
Thanks people- just back on here after the compuer was replaced :( |
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brigid | Report | 8 Dec 2013 11:51 |
we haven't managed to find out if the payments continued because we don't know where the birth mother went to ..or what her name was when she married or if she could have continued collecting the payments in order pay for her baby to be boarded out .. |
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brigid | Report | 6 Aug 2013 06:29 |
we obtained a copy of the rather beautiful affiliation order for my grandmother .The father had to pay 14s a week until she was 14 the margin is a scrawl that he paid the birth attendance too.This is how we knew our great grandfather's first names |
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wellybobs | Report | 4 Aug 2013 15:01 |
Hi, |
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Kuros | Report | 4 Aug 2013 13:21 |
My great-grandfather was ordered to pay 2/6d per week until my grandmother was sixteen years of age.This was in 1896 so it was a lot of money. He was a wealthy farmer in Ratlinghope, Shropshire so I suppose he could afford it, although the court records show he contested it. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 3 Aug 2013 11:29 |
You are probably right Reggie. I missed the mention of the word "amicably" in the original post. He probably just paid up every month - and the fact that it was monthly rather than weekly makes me think this was relatively recent (at least not in the 1800's as I think it would be more likely to be weekly in those days). |
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ErikaH | Report | 3 Aug 2013 09:23 |
You state that the father paid 'amicably'.................that suggests that no enforcement order was in place |
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KathleenBell | Report | 3 Aug 2013 00:23 |
Depends on what date your grandmother was born. |
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Kuros | Report | 2 Aug 2013 23:27 |
There was an affiliation order - or bastardy order as they were known then - issued after my grandmother's birth. This was in Shropshire in 1896 and the record of the court case was in the Shrewsbury Record Office. They were the quarter sessions records of the courts. It may be worth looking in the local record office to see if any court records exist. |
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Jonesey | Report | 2 Aug 2013 22:40 |
An affiliation order is what most people know as a paternity order in other words what you are describing. The proceedings were usually held in the petty sessions of the court local to where the mother lived. |
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Familyfinder | Report | 2 Aug 2013 22:13 |
We know my grandmother was born illegitemately and that the Father paid money amicably each month. My Gran's's Auntie had to go and collect it each month.I have tried before and the bastardy index for the time/area was destroyed in the war. |