bastardy

Modifies a noun

• order: If you have a copy of a bastardy order it should say for how long the money was to be paid.
• case: That's 1,860 bastardy cases from the Holland area.
• examination: This book is an edition of 469 such settlement and bastardy examination examinations taken in the parish of Chelsea between 1733 and 1766.
• bond: Bastardy Bonds Parish registers generally will not give the name of the father if a child is illegitimate.
• record: Neither are there any settlement examinations, removal orders or bastardy records at the Archives.
• document: Bastardy bonds and other parish bastardy documents ceased to be used after 1834 when the Poor Law Unions were created.