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LINCOLNSHIRE RESOURCES FOR OCTOBER ENGLISH INTEREST GROUP

Lincolnshire Poor Law Bastardy Cases, 1855
Using Genuki go into Poor Law Bastardy Cases.  This will give you lists of names from 1840-1856
Also in Lincolnshire Genuki are notices from newspapers for 1855 with many Poor Law cases.


From the Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury newspaper

Dates in Bold are newspaper edition dates.
Dates in Italic are the dates of the petty session hearings.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/bastardy_1855.html

6 January 1855 

Louth (Lindsey) Petty Sessions 20 December 1854
An order of filiation was made upon Christ. HASTINGS for the support of Ann SKIPWORTH's bastard child, at 1s. 6d. per week and costs.

Alford Petty Sessions 2 January
Emily CROFT, single woman, of Greenfield, applied for an order for the maintenance of her bastard child on Thos. TOYNE, of Markby. Ordered to pay 1s. 6d. per week from the date of application, and £2 costs.

Lincolnshire Convicts Transported

Nearly 2000 convicts are known to have been transported from Lincolnshire between 1788 and 1868 to to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda. Two books in WFHG Library CON011 and CON011B
Convicts of Lincolnshire are now under the website 
https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk

Lincolnshire Archives Catalogue
https://www.calmview.eu/lincolnshirearchives/