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From: Tony Young <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re:Illigitimate
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:41:52 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95-960729.1001228213049.16680B-100000@altair.dur.ac.uk>



>
> There may be an affiliation order amongst the Poor Law papers for the Parish
> ~ that would mean that the reputed father would be liable to pay towards the
> childs keep. More likely if the mother was poor if she was not , or the
> childs father had made private arrangements for the childs keep, it might
> prove quite difficult to trace
> cathy
> ...

Cathy,
Do you know in which parish such papers might appear? As an example there
was a real case in my family (birth in 1906) where the unmarried mother
lived in Streatham, had the baby in Queen Charlotte's in Paddington, and
within a month or so either side of the birth, the whole family moved to
Kilburn (probably for 'respectability' reasons). The (unknown named)
father may have lived (or at least was then working) in Clapham.

Tony Young

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