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

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 >

I think that Mona and Patricia have given good answers to the query. As she did not take out affiliation proceedings against the putative father, he would not have had to pay his 3 shillings and 6 pence a week (the 1881 rate) to maintain the child, but he would also not have had any rights to have contact with the child or to have any say in the child's upbringing. At least that is my understanding of the situation as it then was in UK. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Ball-Pyatt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 1:26 AM 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