Hello, Take a look here under #5--it means 'to assign paternity'. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/affiliate HTH Mona Sent from my iPad On Sep 2, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Ellen Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Karen, if memory serves me right it means she did not keep the > child.... > > El > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Ball-Pyatt" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 8:26 PM > Subject: [GLA] Definition of "affiliate" in relation to a birth out > ofwedlock > > >> Hi, >> I am researching a breach of promise court case that involved my >> great-grandfather's older sister in 1893 in Cardiff. In the newspaper >> report of the case, it said: >> >> On the 3rd of April, 1892, she was delivered of a male child. She did >> not affiliate the child, as her parents objected to it. >> >> In this context, does "affiliate" refer to the degree of her emotional >> attachment to the child? (I suspect that this might my 21st century >> interpretation of the word). Could it refer to the naming of the child? >> She gave her son her last name, but the father's surname as a middle >> name. The name of the father was not given on the birth certificate. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Karen >> Waterloo, ON Canada >> -- >> >> To send to the list send to [email protected] >> GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html >> - >> This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ >> - >> A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be >> found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ >> >> - >> The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message