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Illegitimacy, Please Help!
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Daniel | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:30 |
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I have been researching my surname back but came to a snag. I have a GG grandfather Henry Sully born 1859 but no father on the birth cirt. There is no father listed on any census' either. There is also no unusual middle name to help me there. I was wondering are there any other routes? I have heard of Bastardly orders or something, or might parish records hold clues? |
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Deb needs a change | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:40 |
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Have you tried tracing the mother back? She may have married but husband wasn't at home when census was taken. Or you could try ordering a siblings cert which may name someone. Deb:) |
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Daniel | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:43 |
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She wan't married, still had her maiden name, there is one brother without a fther too, so I could try his cert, but I got a feeling it will be the same, any other ideas? |
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Deb needs a change | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:52 |
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Was there any male living with her in any of the census records that could fit the bill? Other than that, I can't really think of anything else. Deb:) |
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Daniel | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:55 |
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None other than her family. |
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Judith | Report | 21 Jul 2007 13:59 |
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You might be lucky and find that the parish baptism register refers to him as 'putative son of' and names the reputed father, or as in one case I found describes how the mother was the live in housekeeper of X X and so implies he was probably the father. As for bastardy bonds It depends on when your chap was born. There was a time when the parish would quiz the unmarried mother to find the name of the father and take out an order on him to support the child so it did not become a charge on the parish funds - you would find any surviving orders of this type at the County Records Office for the area he was born - you might try searching the A2A website to see if anything is catalogued. In late Victorian times and into the 20th century it was down to the mother to take out a maintenance order through the courts which could be harder to find. Of course if she had the support of the rest of her family there may have been no proceedings at all, or her own father may have signed the bond to guarantee to support the child. I have had luck in one case where although I could't track down the original order I found a record of the father of an illegitimate son being sentenced to 3 months hard labour for 'non compliance of bond of filiation' When he came out he married the mother of the child! |
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