Thanks Anne. It doesn't sound like much at todays rates but I guess it could be hard enough for these men to make the payments. I wonder if there was any follow up to make sure that they paid. Carol Lylyk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Bastardy Cases in the Newspaper > Hello Carol, > > I can't answer your question about wages, but as you say the awards were > made according to ability to pay. The highest amount that could be paid was > 2s. 6d. In the workhouse minutes, 1s. 6d. is the amount most quoted as that > which someone should pay to support a relative on poor relief. Therefore it > must have been an amount affordable by most. > >>From 1844 the child had to be supported until it was 13 years of age.

There are some cases amongst the ones that I have found for fathers being taken to court for not paying up, so yes, they were followed up. 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-lincsgen- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carol Lylyk > Sent: 20 March 2012 03:44 > To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LIN] Bastardy Cases in the Newspaper > > Thanks Anne. It doesn't sound like much at todays rates but I guess it > could be > hard enough for these men to make the payments. I wonder if there was any > follow up to make sure that they paid. > > Carol Lylyk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> > To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:05 AM > Subject: Re: [LIN] Bastardy Cases in the Newspaper > > > > Hello Carol, > > > > I can't answer your question about wages, but as you say the awards were > > made according to ability to pay. The highest amount that could be paid > was > > 2s. 6d. In the workhouse minutes, 1s. 6d. is the amount most quoted as > that > > which someone should pay to support a relative on poor relief. Therefore > it > > must have been an amount affordable by most. > > > >>From 1844 the child had to be supported until it was 13 years of age. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message

Hi Anne, I wondered whether there was any way I could find this sort of report in the Barnsley, Yorkshire, newspapers. I have a huge brick wall in that my gg-grandfather was illegitimate - born in 1857 at the Barnsley Union Workhouse "father unknown" on the birth certificate. He took his mother's name. Cheers, Carol On 20 March 2012 14:44, Carol Lylyk <clylyk@telus.net> wrote: > Thanks Anne.  It doesn't sound like much at todays rates but I guess it could be > hard enough for these men to make the payments.  I wonder if there was any > follow up to make sure that they paid. > > Carol Lylyk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> > To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:05 AM > Subject: Re: [LIN] Bastardy Cases in the Newspaper > > >> Hello Carol, >> >> I can't answer your question about wages, but as you say the awards were >> made according to ability to pay. The highest amount that could be paid was >> 2s. 6d. In the workhouse minutes, 1s. 6d. is the amount most quoted as that >> which someone should pay to support a relative on poor relief. Therefore it >> must have been an amount affordable by most. >> >>>From 1844 the child had to be supported until it was 13 years of age. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message