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bastardy bonds?????

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zenawarrior

zenawarrior Report 2 May 2011 14:48

help please my greatgrand mother seems to be illigitimate and some one suggested looking at bastardy bonds but where do i find them
thanks
zena

Researching:
lewis smith mowbray townsend crowther holmes bourne hands

K

K Report 2 May 2011 15:11

You could check at the County Record Office in the county where your great grandmother was born.

Researching:
Anstee/Bucks; Russell/London; Durose; Pease/North Yorks; Kelly/IoM

zenawarrior

zenawarrior Report 2 May 2011 15:18

ok k will do thanks
zena

Researching:
lewis smith mowbray townsend crowther holmes bourne hands

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 2 May 2011 17:35

What dates are you talking about?

Trying to find details of bastardy cases after 1839 is difficult. Bastardy bonds and other parish bastardy documents ceased to be used after 1834 when the Poor Law Unions were created. From 1834 to 1839 the Workhouse administrators initiated bastardy proceedings through the Petty and Quarter Sessions Courts, and from 1839 all bastardy cases were heard at Petty Sessions, and initiated by the mother, who had to produce corroborative evidence to convict the putative father.

Apparently, few records after 1839 have survived.

From the latter part of the nineteenth century you will find brief details of maintenance orders in the registers of the courts of Petty Sessions and Magistrates.

Janice

Janice Report 2 May 2011 17:55

Have you looked for a baptism for her? Some vicars name the father!

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 2 May 2011 21:32

i have found Bastardy Bonds listed on the National Archives website. search on the name of the child

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 3 May 2011 12:20

If anyone is interested, there is an article on Illegitimacy and bastardy records in Issue No: 103, May 2011, of Your Family Tree Magazine

zenawarrior

zenawarrior Report 3 May 2011 15:34

sorry all been away from laptop
she was born in 1867 in bromsgrove mary ann hands mother harriet
i will try your suggestions and inspector greenpen i will try and get a copy of that magazine
thanks for your help zena

Researching:
lewis smith mowbray townsend crowther holmes bourne hands