LRSM = Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury Full details from the newspaper are given below; I have no further details. LRSM 21 March 1856 Market Rasen Petty Sessions 17 March The application of Jane GREENWOOD, of Market Rasen, singlewoman, for an order upon Joe DUNN, apprentice, towards the maintenance of her illegitimate child, was dismissed. LRSM 28 March 1856 Lincoln City Petty Sessions 22 March It was ordered that Geo. CHAPMAN shall pay 1s. 6d. weekly toward the support of the illegitimate child of Charlotte SPARROW. The woman is 27 years of age, and has previously had a child, and Chapman, it was elicited, is not 18 years of age. Sarah RASEN applied to affiliate a child to a butcher whose name did not transpire; but the corroborating witnesses were not forthcoming, and it was stated that one named BORRILL had got into debt and gone off to Liverpool. The case was adjourned. Lincoln (Kesteven) Petty Sessions 20 March Thos. FRANKLYN was ordered to pay 1s. 6d. weekly towards the support of the illegitimate child of Ann HOPKINSON, of North Scarle. Lincoln (Lindsey) Petty Sessions 20 March It was ordered that Hezekiah WINGARD, of Nettleham, should pay 1s. 6d. weekly towards the support of the illegitimate child of Eliz. SOUTH, of Cherry Willingham. Eliza TIBBS, of Ingham, applied for an order in illegitimacy against Thos. BELL, of the same village: the order was refused. Spilsby Petty Sessions 24 March James RUTTER, of Claxby, was adjudged to be the putative father of the illegitimate child of Jane GRAYSON, of Halton, and an order was made for payment of 1s. 6d. per week and expenses. 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