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Overseers: Bastardy Orders: 1804-12
Bastardy Orders were issued when fathers did not pay maintainance for their illegimate children. This was done so that these children did not become chargeable on the poor rates.
These are items from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 401/41 and microform MF943/7 (starting at frame 240)] containing the Bastardy Orders for 1804-12. They can be found on printed or hand written forms which usually follow a standard layout. Here just the relevant facts have been extracted from each order. Note that there are no other orders available for this parish.
Each "Order" has been laid out in the following manner:-
| JP's | Date | Name of Mother Child(ren)/When and where born etc. | Father | Amount payable by father per week | Amount payable by mother per week |
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[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]
| JP's | Hone W A Harbord, Theos Girdlestone Clerk |
| Date of Order | 6/Nov/1804 |
| Name of Mother Child(ren)/When and where born etc. | Elizabeth ALLEN, singlewoman, Male child born 18/Jun/1804 at the House of Saml GEORGE |
| Father | Samuel GEORGE late of Tuttington - Farmer |
| Amount payable by father per week | 2/6 |
| Amount payable by mother per week | 1/- |
| JP's | Hone W A Harbord, J. B. Collyer Clerk |
| Date of Order | 20/Mar/1809 |
| Name of Mother Child(ren)/When and where born etc. | Mary HALL, singlewoman, Male child born 26/Feb/1809 at a Cottage |
| Father | John WELDEN - Husbandman |
| Amount payable by father per week | 26/- for Lying-in + 1/6 per week |
| Amount payable by mother per week | 9d, while chargeable |
| JP's | Robert Marsham, John Johnson Gay |
| Date of Order | 6/Oct/1812 |
| Name of Mother Child(ren)/When and where born etc. | Margaret Ones, singlewoman, Male child born 26/Jul/1812 See Notes. |
| Father | John Cater - a servant in husbandry |
| Amount payable by father per week | 6/- + 2/- per week |
| Amount payable by mother per week | 1/- |
[End of Document]
Notes
- In other documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Ones/Wone (see Overseers accounts), Welden/Weldon - A "John WONE" was baptised in 1812 with no parents.
See also the Tuttington parish page.
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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
November 2015