Many thanks Dorothy for checking Amos BROWNJOHN's admon papers. I suspect you're right that Hannah KEWELL was acting as Amos's housekeeper and looking after his children after the death of his wife in 1795. Perhaps if he'd lived longer he might have made an honest woman of her! Timothy BROWNJOHN seems to have married a lady called Ann from Ipsden in Oxfordshire. In the 1851 and 1871 censuses Timothy's place of birth is given as Ipsden (presumably in error), but in 1861 his place of birth is given as Higgerswill, Hampshire. The name is written quite clearly on the page but I can't think where Higgerswill might be. Does anyone have any ideas? I shall be interested to learn more about the 1782 Bastardy Bond. This occurred six years before Amos BROWNJOHN's marriage to Mary BATHE in 1788. Debbie Kennett