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DORSET: To all Constables,
Tythingmen, and others, his Majesty's Officers of the Peace, for the said County, whom it may concern to Execute and Return These:- |
Dorset Borough of Dorchester - 16th Feb 1780Bastardy Bond of Samuel GODDARD of Dorchester The condition of this obligation is such that whereas Jane SHEPPARD of Blandford Forum aforesaid single woman hath in and by her voluntary examination taken in writing and upon oath before Geo. ---?----- one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Dorset hath declared that on the twenty seventh day of December which was in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven she was delivered of a male bastard child named James within the said parish of Blandford Forum (8) which is now living and likely to become chargeable to the same parish and hath charged the above bound Samuel GODDARD with being the father of the said child If therefore the above bound Samuel GODDARD his heirs executors or administrators do and shall from time to time and at all times hereafter fully clearly indemnify and save harmless as whole the above named churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum and their successors for the time being as also all and singular the other parishioners and inhabitants of the said parish of Blandford Forum which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being of and from all manner of costs taxes rates assessments and charges whatsoever for and by reason of birth education and maintenance of the saiud child and of and from all actions suits troubles? and other charges and demands whatsoever touching or concerning the same that then this present obligation to be void or else to be and remain in full force and virtue. The mark of Samuel GODDARD Sealed and delivered being first duly stamped in the presence of Geo, HARPER? and John BROWN |
Dorset Borough of Dorchester - 5th Oct 1795Examination of Sarah CRUET taken before me on oath this 17th February 1740/1 At the General Quarter Sessions of the peace of our Lord the King Held in and for the said Borough on Monday the fifth day of October in the thirty Fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Five before Charles WHITE Esquire Mayor (1), Nathaniel BOND Esquire Recorder (2) these two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace and of the locum for the said Borough James CHAFY, Roben STICKLAND and other Justices of our said Lord King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord King in and for the said Borough And also to hear and determine divers felonies trespassing & other misdemeaners done or committed in the said Borough. Whereas it appears unto this Court as well upon the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of All Saints in the said Borough as upon Oath of Sarah CRUET of the said parish single woman taken the tenth day of December last part before Christopher ARDEN Mayor (1) and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said Borough that she the said Sarah CRUET was then with child which child was likely to be born a Bastard, and to be chargeable to the said Parish of All Saints (3)
Examined Thomas STICKLAND Junior |
Overseers of the Poor Bastardy Order - 8th September 1796DORSET: The order of Francis FANE Esq and the Revd George Tito BRICE Clerk (5) two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County - one whereof is of the Quorum, and both residing next unto the limits of the parish of within the parish of Blandford Forum in the said County made the eight day of September in the 38th year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the third (6) concerning a male Bastard child lately born in the parish of Blandford Forum aforesaid of the body of Sarah HOW single woman. Whereas: it hath appeared unto us the said Justices, as well upon the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum as upon the oath of the said Sarah HOW that the said Sarah HOW on or about the now last past was delivered of a male Bastard child at and within the said Parish of Blandford Forum in the said County and that the said Bastard child is likely to be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum and further that James BOND of Dorchester in the said County of Dorset did beget the said Bastard child on the body of her the said Sarah HOW And Whereas: The said James BOND hath appeared before us for that purpose but hath not shown any sufficient cause why he the said James BOND shall not be the reputed father of the said Bastard Child we therefore upon examination of the cause and circumstances of the premises as well as upon the oath of the said Sarah HOW as otherwife, do hereby adjudge him the said James BOND to be the reputed father of the said Bastard child And thereupon we do order, as well for the better Relief of the said Sarah HOW as for the sustentation and Relief of the said Bastard child that the said James BOND shall and do forthwith upon notice of this our order, pay or cause to be paid to the said churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish or to some of them the sum of twenty shillings for and towards the lying in of the said Sarah HOW and the maintenance of the said Bastard child to the time of making this our order. And we do hereby further order, that the said James BOND shall likewise pay or cause to be paid to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum for the time being, or to some or one of them the sum of one shilling weekly and every week from the present time, for and towards the keeping, sustention and maintenance of the said Bastard child for during so long time as the said Bastard child shall be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum. And we do further order that the said Sarah HOW shall also pay or cause to be paid to the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum for the time being or of some or one of them the sum of six pence weekly and every week so long as the said Bastard child shall be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum in case she shall not nurse and take care of the said child herself. Given under our hands and seals the day and year first written above. |
Dorset Quarter Sessions held at Blandford Forum 12 Jan 1802 - Order Books 1798-1806Forthington [Fordington] v Samuel LEGG [Image 180 of 386]
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Baptisms at All Saints Church:
(7) 18th Jun 1826 - William base born son of Louisa FOX - Father William MASTERS Receipts April 1821 [Image 460]1820: John BALSON in account: [i.e. Receipts] 96 Rates at £2. 19s 11d ----------- Total £287. 12s 0d Received of Wm [William] HANHAM for the illegitimate child of Eliz [Elizabeth] MULLETT from Sep 1[st] 1820 to April 6[th] 1821 31 Weeks at 1s.6d p[per] week ------------£2. 6s. 6d [NOTE: Link to arrest warrant 9th Sep 1818 for William HANHAM on a charge of Bastardy - Frederic the base born son of Elizabeth MULLETT was bapt at All Saints Church Dorchester 17th Sep 1818]
Received of Mr.G. STICKLAND for Wo [Widow] GRAYS Bastard from Nov. 3 1820 to April 6 1821 22 weeks at 3s per week ------ £3 6s 0d
Received of Thos. [Thomas] HOWE in part for the illegitimate child of Eliz [Elizabeth] MULLET --------£1. 9s.0d [Note:- James the base born son of Elizabeth MULLETT was baptsied at All Saints Church 27th Nov 1815]
Received of John TIZARD for the illegitimate child of Mary PURCHASE from Nov 3 1820 to Feby 23rd 1821 - 16 weeks at 1s. 6d. ----£1. 4s.0d
21st May 1813:- [Image 335] --By John TIZARD for the Baseborn child of Mary PURCHASE to the 30th Day of April 1813 at 1s. 6d per week £4.19s.6d - This is a large sum so they are recovering payments made for over a year . The collection from John TIZARD of maintenance continues on a regular basis. eg Image 426; 453] Received of James SCARD in part payment for the illegitimate child of Maria LEGG ---- £1. 3s.0d [NOTE: Link to arrest warrant 29th Mar 1821 for James SCARD on a charge of Bastardy ]
Also 487 Now making payments in addition for child by Maria LEGG but also Illegitimate child baptised at St Peters Church in Dorchester Robert base born son of Ann [Hannah] PURCHASE , on 01 Aug 1819, abode The Hospital in St Peters Parish in this town, a serving woman.] There is one entry of interest on the right hand page for:- Expenses attending James SCARD for Bastardy at the Kings Arms Tap by the Constables --- £1.3s.6d Receipts April 1822 [Image 476]1822: Messrs HAWKINS and GRAY [Receipts] 192 Rates at £2. 19s.5½d --- Total £570. 16s 0d. Received of William HANNAM [HANHAM] for the illegitimate Child of Elizabeth MULLETT to the 18th March 1822 ---£3. 13s. 6d [Same as 1820 above] Received of James SCARD for the Illegitimate Child of Hannah PURCHASE to the 21st Nov 1821 ----£3. 8s. 0d
Received of James SCARD for the Illegitimate Child of Maria LEGG to 18th Oct 1821 ---- £2.10s. 0d {Same as 1820 above] Received of Thomas HOWE for the illegitimate Child of Elizabeth MULLETT to the 17th Nov 1820 ---£1. 0s. 0d {Same as 1820 above] Received of George STICKLAND on Account of money advanced to the Widow GRAY to the 29th March 1822 ---- £7. 13s. 0d {Same as 1820 above] W.R.ROLLS Error 5th June 1820 --- £0. 4s. 0d Soldiers wives --- £0.9s. 4½d Received of the Parish of Tiverton by a suspended order of Removal of William HAYDON --- £6. 8s 3½d Received of the Late Overseers --- £26. 15s. 9d Grand Total ---- £622. 17s 11d Receipts April 1827 [Image 563]John GUPPY Junior 'In' Accounts Received of Mr. Clare -----£99.10s.10d 48 Rates at £3 .0s. 0½d ----£144. 2s. 0d Received of Mr FURMIDGE [FURMAGE] 24 weeks pay for the child of Elizabeth TOMS making paid to Feby 10th 1827 ----£1.16ys. 0d of Job Trevilian ----£1. 0s. 0d of Mr Wm [William] MASTERS for the child of Louisa FOX as per order from Magistrate ----£3.11s. 0d Do [Ditto] for 37 week pay for Do [Ditto] at 1s 4d per week to March 24th 1827 ---- £2. 9s. 4d Hennings Notes ---- £3.10s. 0d Received of Collector of Excise for Soldiers Wives for Articles late Jn [John] TAYLORS (deceased) ----£0. 10s. 0d 1827 April 12 mths ----£256. 14s. |
Genealogical Notes: - (9). Mary LUCAS had her Bartard daughter baptised as Elizabeth at St Georges Church in Fordington on 25th Dec 1801 |