Two weeks' worth here - not finding very much at present LRSM = Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury Full details from the newspaper are given below; I have no further information. LRSM 1 February 1856 Spilsby Petty Sessions 28 January Thomas PEARL, of Sibsey, who did not answer to the summons, was adjudged in his absence to be the putative father of the illegitimate child of Sarah WAKEFIELD, and ordered to pay 1s. per week and expenses. LRSM 8 February 1856 Spittlegate Petty Sessions 1 February Ann JARVIS, a single woman, applied through Mr. HEALY for an order of affiliation upon Henry HILTON. Mr. MALIM appeared for the defendant. This was the second application, the first having been made at the Borough Bench of Magistrates, who dismissed the case because they considered the paternity was not sufficiently proved. Mr. Healy said the second application had been made not to place one set of Justices against the other, but in order that new and material evidence might be adduced; and another reason why he particularly wished it was in consequence (to use his own words) of a very shameful attempt to bribe one of his witnesses, and to intimidate another, upon the very threshold of justice. He also stated that he had chosen this Bench because it was above any such influence, and that no one would have dared to attempt such a thing on the threshold of this court: also that if it occurred again he should take upon himself the responsibility of making it public. Mr. Malam wished for an explanation to this grave charge, but Mr. Healy said he acquitted him even of the knowledge of it. The Magistrates retired, and upon retaking their seats said that, after a patient hearing of the ably-argued case, they did not consider there was sufficient evidence before them to reverse the decision of the Borough Magistrates, the corroborative evidence not being sufficiently strong. Louth Petty Sessions 1 February Rd. MEDLEY, bricklayer, was charged by Eliza DUESBURY with being the father of her bastard child. Case dismissed, complainant to pay costs. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk