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DORSET: To all Constables,
Tythingmen, and others, his Majesty's Officers of the Peace, for the said County, whom it may concern to Execute and Return These:- |
Dorset Borough of Dorchester - 16th Feb 1780Bastardy Bond of Samuel GODDARD of Dorchester The condition of this obligation is such that whereas Jane SHEPPARD of Blandford Forum aforesaid single woman hath in and by her voluntary examination taken in writing and upon oath before Geo. ---?----- one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Dorset hath declared that on the twenty seventh day of December which was in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven she was delivered of a male bastard child named James within the said parish of Blandford Forum (8) which is now living and likely to become chargeable to the same parish and hath charged the above bound Samuel GODDARD with being the father of the said child If therefore the above bound Samuel GODDARD his heirs executors or administrators do and shall from time to time and at all times hereafter fully clearly indemnify and save harmless as whole the above named churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum and their successors for the time being as also all and singular the other parishioners and inhabitants of the said parish of Blandford Forum which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being of and from all manner of costs taxes rates assessments and charges whatsoever for and by reason of birth education and maintenance of the saiud child and of and from all actions suits troubles? and other charges and demands whatsoever touching or concerning the same that then this present obligation to be void or else to be and remain in full force and virtue. The mark of Samuel GODDARD Sealed and delivered being first duly stamped in the presence of Geo, HARPER? and John BROWN |
Dorset Borough of Dorchester - 5th Oct 1795Examination of Sarah CRUET taken before me on oath this 17th February 1740/1 At the General Quarter Sessions of the peace of our Lord the King Held in and for the said Borough on Monday the fifth day of October in the thirty Fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Five before Charles WHITE Esquire Mayor (1), Nathaniel BOND Esquire Recorder (2) these two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace and of the locum for the said Borough James CHAFY, Roben STICKLAND and other Justices of our said Lord King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord King in and for the said Borough And also to hear and determine divers felonies trespassing & other misdemeaners done or committed in the said Borough. Whereas it appears unto this Court as well upon the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of All Saints in the said Borough as upon Oath of Sarah CRUET of the said parish single woman taken the tenth day of December last part before Christopher ARDEN Mayor (1) and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said Borough that she the said Sarah CRUET was then with child which child was likely to be born a Bastard, and to be chargeable to the said Parish of All Saints (3)
Examined Thomas STICKLAND Junior |
Overseers of the Poor Bastardy Order - 8th September 1796DORSET: The order of Francis FANE Esq and the Revd George Tito BRICE Clerk (5) two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County - one whereof is of the Quorum, and both residing next unto the limits of the parish of within the parish of Blandford Forum in the said County made the eight day of September in the 38th year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the third (6) concerning a male Bastard child lately born in the parish of Blandford Forum aforesaid of the body of Sarah HOW single woman. Whereas: it hath appeared unto us the said Justices, as well upon the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum as upon the oath of the said Sarah HOW that the said Sarah HOW on or about the now last past was delivered of a male Bastard child at and within the said Parish of Blandford Forum in the said County and that the said Bastard child is likely to be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum and further that James BOND of Dorchester in the said County of Dorset did beget the said Bastard child on the body of her the said Sarah HOW An Whereas: The said James BOND hath appeared before us for that purpose but hath not shown any sufficient cause why he the said James BOND shall not be the reputed father of the said Bastard Child we therefore upon examination of the cause and circumstances of the premises as well as upon the oath of the said Sarah HOW as otherwife, do hereby adjudge him the said James BOND to be the reputed father of the said Bastard child And thereupon we do order, as well for the better Relief of the said Sarah HOW as for the sustentation and Relief of the said Bastard child that the said James BOND shall and do forthwith upon notice of this our order, pay or cause to be paid to the said churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish or to some of them the sum of twenty shillings for and towards the lying in of the said Sarah HOW and the maintenance of the said Bastard child to the time of making this our order. And we do hereby further order, that the said James BOND shall likewise pay or cause to be paid to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum for the time being, or to some or one of them the sum of one shilling weekly and every week from the present time, for and towards the keeping, sustention and maintenance of the said Bastard child for during so long time as the said Bastard child shall be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum. And we do further order that the said Sarah HOW shall also pay or cause to be paid to the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blandford Forum for the time being or of some or one of them the sum of six pence weekly and every week so long as the said Bastard child shall be chargeable to the said parish of Blandford Forum in case she shall not nurse and take care of the said child herself. Given under our hands and seals the day and year first written above. |
Genealogical Notes: - (1). Link to Mayors of Dorchester which confirms Christopher ARDEN was Mayor in 1794 followed by Charles WHITE in 1795 (2). Link to a listing of Recorders of Dorchester for more information on Nathaniel BOND (3). There is no trace of a bastard female child being baptised in Dorchester (4). Note:- The only other reference that I can locate of a James SEARLE is a document called a 'Vagrants Pass' issued at Shaftsbury by J Obowen Esq a JP for Southampton in respect of a James SEARLE and Elizabeth his wife who were apprehended as vagrants in Overton. Overton is situated between Andover and Basingstoke in Hampshire. The order is for their conveyance together with a Horse and Cart from Shatftsbury to Henstridge in the County of Somerset on the 21st May 1787, a distance of 10 miles. This is just one step in the chain of orders that would have been issued to return him to Ashburton in Devon his place of settlement. Further research is needed ( in Ashburton Devon) to establish whether this is the same James SEARLE referred to in this bastardy order. (5). Revd George Tito BRICE was ordained a deacon at St Peters le Poor of London on 18th May 1788 and served his curacy from the 19th May 1788 at Holy Trinity with St Martin (annexed Arne Chapel) . He was ordained a priest at Bristol Cathedral on 21st Sep 1788 and appears to have been made Rector of St Michael's, Holy Trinity and St Peters in Wareham in Feb 1790. He was also curate at Shapwick 17th July 1793 and Vicar of Great Canford 27th Dec 1798. (6). The 38th year in the reign of George the Third ran from 25th Oct 1795 to 24th Oct 1796 so the correct year is 1796. (7). Betty was a colloquial form of Elizabeth. Elizabeth MOORES had her base born child James baptised at Sherborne on 21st April 1767. See also the marriage of David CASHIER to Jane WILLIAMS at Charminster16th June 1766 for more information (8). "James the son of Jane SHEPERD Base Born" was baptised at Blandford Forum on 28th December 1777. |