Bastardy Orders & Bonds 1656 - 1833
Transcribed by Rachel Kent
From the originals at the Dorset History Centre
DHC Ref: PE/COC/OV 192 1/1 & 2/1
1656
1 Dec
Richard Dunning – gentleman
Henry Tewxbury – husbandman
Walter Trew – husbandman
all of East Lulworth
to indemify the parish for paying maintenance for the bastard child of Alice Righthead
1704
11 Aug
Robert Edmonds – yeoman, of Holes to Patience Rendal
1746
17 Mar
Thomas Croomes – yeoman, of Blacknowle to Christian Rose
1753
3 Apr
Richard Barnes – yeoman, of Blasknowle to Anne Edmonds – sojourner, of Kingston
1754
26 Mar
Charles Vye – marbler to Hannah Bennet, single woman
1 Apr
John Croomes – yeoman, of Orchard, Church Knowle and
Joseph Croomes – gentleman
to Grace Hibbs, daughter of Jonathan Hibbs – single woman
1759
20 Nov
William and John Edmunds – blacksmiths, of Wareham to Elizabeth Smith, single woman
1774
26 Feb
John Roe the elder and Philip Roe – cordwainers to Ursula Balaam, single woman
26 May
Richard Speck to Elizabeth Vye
22 Aug
Jasper Morison (alias Duck) and William Bailey the younger millers of Arfleet to Miriam Bower
1783
? ?
David Cake to Susanna Stockley, single woman
1789
1 Jun
Samuel Wallis (alias Wallace) - shepherd, of Overmoigne to Hannah Cross, single woman
1790
1 Jun
George Speck, Thomas and William Balson – labourers to Elizabeth Welch, single woman
25 Dec
John and Samuel Wallis – labourers, of Owermoigne to Hannah Cross, single woman
1793
21 Jan
John Woolfreys – labourer and Thomas Woolfreys – cork cutter, of Bere Regis to Mary Garland, single woman
1794
9 Jun
John Kelley – labourer to Mary Butler
1795
3 Feb
William Smith - mariner, of Worth Matravers to Elizabeth Dorey, wife of John Dorey – mariner
16 Sep
Alexander Corbin – stone mason, of Langton Matravers to Sarah Fry, single woman
1796
17 Feb
James Turner and Samuel Corsfield – quarriers, of Langton Matravers to Ann Curtis, single woman
1797
28 Jun
Samuel Seymer – yeoman, of Woodstreet Farm, Wool (husband of Sarah) to Elizabeth Conway, single woman
1798
25 Jun
William White promises to pay maintenance for his child to Jane Stoodley
1799
22 Nov
Daniel White to Philis Romaine, single woman
1801
17 Mar
Rose Smith – yeoman, of Woolgarsten to Sarah Sander – single woman, of Woolgarsten now residing Langton
1802
27 Mar
Thomas Joiner, of Lewell, West Kingston to pay maintenance for bastard child by Ann Burt
2 Apr
Thomas Selbey – labourer, in Dorchester Gaol to Ann Burt, singlewoman
1808
20 Dec
George Butler - shopkeeper, of Swanage to Sarah Kitcat
1809
25 Feb
John Bush – labourer, of Studland to Betty Bishop, single woman
1816
? May
Rose Smith – yeoman, of Woolgarsten to Ann Shitler, single woman
1818
5 May Daniel Bishop - dairyman, of Burshew to Anna Allen, single woman
1819
12 Jun
Joseph and James Baker – carpenters, of Kingston to Mary Manuel, single woman
1820
1 Apr
William John Lidden Perham – gentleman, of Handley to Mary Burgess, daughter of John Burgess - tailor
11 May
Richard Stockley - labourer to Mary Parker, single woman
9 Jun
Philip Chetwode – Corporal in 16th Regiment of Dragoons residing at quarters at Chideock to Mary Ann White, single woman
1821
17 Feb
David Gould the younger, of Studland to Ann Gould, single woman
1825
17 Mar
James Budden - labourer to Ann Bennet, single woman
3 Sep
T Udall - labourer, of Kingston Ann Battrick, single woman
1827
3 Nov
Thomas Steel (alias Beale) now in Dorchester Gaol to Mary Stockley, widow
1832
24 Feb
Joseph Manuel – labourer, of Church Knowle to Ann Gover, widow
21 Jul
John Squibb, of Worth Matravers to Mary Ann Edmonds, single woman
1833
12 Jan
Giles Foot – cordwainer to Elizabeth Homer, single woman