Norfolk parish registers and bastardy records added to TheGenealogist

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

New Unique Searchable Parish Records 
Some of the records reveal the parents of illegitimate children

TheGenealogist has released over half a million new parish records for Norfolk into their Parish Records collection. In addition to containing the uniquely transcribed records of Baptism, Marriages and Burials with images for over 250 parishes, these records also include some fascinating Bastardy bonds, Examinations, Warrants and Orders. With this release family historians will be able to find the details of ancestors baptised, married and buried as well as those that had children born out of wedlock in this East Anglian county.

The new data will allow the family history researcher to discover:

● Over half a million individuals in records

● Names of parents of illegitimate children

● Images also reveal the names of people standing guarantor for the father

● The baptism, marriages and burials of ancestors in Norfolk

These fully searchable records are transcribed from the original records and linked to the images from the Norfolk Record Office. This release covers the parishes of:

Acle, Alby, Antingham, Ashby with Oby, Ashby With Oby and Thurne, Ashill, Ashwellthorpe, Ashwicken, Aslacton, Babingley, Bacton, Banham, Barton Bendish All Saints & St Mary, Barton Bendish St Andrew, Bawsey, Beechamwell, Beighton, Billingford, Billingford with Thorpe Parva, Billockby, Bixley, Blickling, Booton, Boughton, Bracon Ash, Bradfield, Brancaster, Braydeston, Breccles, Bressingham, Brinton, Brundall, Buckenham, Bunwell, Burgh next Aylsham, Burgh St Peter, Burlingham St Edmund, Burnham Deepdale, Burnham Thorpe, Burnham Westgate, Caister St Edmunds & Trinity, Caistor St Edmunds, Calthorpe, Carleton Rode, Castle Rising, Caston, Catton, Chedgrave, Cawston, Chedgrave, Clippesby, Colney, Congham St Andrew, Corpusty, Croxton, Denton, Dersingham, Diss, Dunston, Earlham, East Bradenham, East Carleton, East Dereham, East Harling, East Lexham, East Tuddenham, East Walton, East Winch, Eccles, Edgefield, Edingthorpe, Elsing, Erpingham, Felthorpe, Fersfield, Flitcham, Flordon, Fordham, Forncett St Peter, Foulsham, Framingham Earl, Framingham Pigot, Fundenhall, Gayton, Gayton Thorpe, Gaywood, Gimingham With Trunch, Gissing, Glanford, Great Bircham with Bircham Newton and Bircham Tofts, Great Dunham, Great Fransham, Great Poringland, Great Snoring, Great Witchingham, Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmouth St Nicholas, Grimston, Griston, Guestwick, Haddiscoe, Hales, Hapton, Hardley, Hardwick, Hassingham, Heacham, Heckingham, Heigham, Hellington, Hethersett, Hilgay, Hingham, Hockering, Hoe, Holkham, Honingham, Horning, Horsford, Horsham St Faith, Howe with Little Poringland, Hunstanton, Ingoldisthorpe, Ingworth, Itteringham, Kempston, Kenninghall, Ketteringham, Kilverstone, Kirby Bedon, Knapton, Lammas with Little Hautbois, Langley, Limpenhoe, Lingwood, Little Barningham, Little Walsingham, Little Witchingham, Loddon, Ludham, Marham, Marlingford, Mattishall, Merton, Metton, Mintlyn, Morton on the Hill, Moulton, Moulton All Saints & St Michael, Moulton St Mary, Mulbarton, Mundesley, Narborough, Needham, New Buckenham, Newton Flotman, North Creake, North Elmham, North Lopham, North Pickenham, North Tuddenham, Northwold, Norton Subcourse, Norwich Lakenham, Norwich Pockthorpe St James, Norwich St John de Sepulchre, Norwich St Margaret and St Swithin, Norwich St Mary in the Marsh, Norwich St Peter Parmentergate, Old Buckenham, Oulton, Pakefield, Paston, Postwick, Pulham St Mary the Virgin, Quidenham, Redenhall with Harleston & Wortwell, Ringland, Ringstead St Andrew, Rockland St Mary with Hellington, Runcton Holme, Runton, Saham Toney, Salhouse, Sandringham, Saxthorpe, Sedgeford, Sharrington, Shelfanger, Shelton with Hardwick, Shingham, Shipdham, Sidestrand, Skeyton, Snetterton, Snettisham, Somerleyton (Suffolk), Southrepps, Southwood, Sparham, Sporle With Palgrave, Starston, Stiffkey, Stoke Holy Cross, Stow Bardolph, Stow Bedon, Stradsett, Stratton Strawless, Strumpshaw, Swaffham, Swannington, Swanton Abbot, Swanton Morley with Worthing, Swanton Novers, Swardeston, Tacolneston, Tasburgh, Tharston, Thetford St Cuthbert, Thetford St Mary, Thetford St Peter, Thompson, Thorpe By Haddiscoe, Thorpe Episcopi, Thorpe Market, Thurlton, Thwaite, Tibenham, Titchwell, Toft Monks, Toftrees, Tottenhill, Tottington, Trowse, Trunch, Tuttington, Upper Sheringham, Wacton, Warham, Watlington, Watton, Weeting St Mary With All Saints, Wereham, West Newton, Westacre, West Tofts, Wheatacre All Saints, Wickmere, Wighton, Winfarthing, Witton, Wolferton, Wolterton, Wood Norton, Wood Rising, Woodbastwick, Wormegay, Worstead, Worthing, Wreningham and Wretton.

Read TheGenealogist’s article: Tracing Illegitimate ancestors online https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2019/tracing-illegitimate-ancestors-online-1127/

(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

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Scottish Indexes updates Sheriff Court paternity case records

Some further indexed Sheriff Court paternity case records have been added to Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) this evening:

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Aberdeen Sheriff Court Processes 1913-1917

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Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Processes 1848-1850

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Ayr Sheriff Court Processes 1816,1861-1865

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Aberdeen Sheriff Court Processes 1913-1917

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Inverness Sheriff Court Processes 1799-1806,1825-1859

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Dingwall Sheriff Court Processes 1912-1917

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Dingwall Sheriff Court Decrees 1830-1919

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Inverness Sheriff Court Decrees 1886-1889

For more on the datset, visit https://www.scottishindexes.com/learningcourt.aspx

(With thanks to @GM_Ancestry)

Chris

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Paisley paternity cases indexed

Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) has added more cases to its Sheriff Court Paternity Decrees index at www.scottishindexes.com/courtsearch.aspx, covering Paisley Sheriff Court from 1833-37.

The full list of available indexed cases to search is detailed at www.scottishindexes.com/coveragecourt.aspx.

Chris

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West Yorkshire bastardy records

A new collection on Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) for those with Yorkshire connections:

West Yorkshire, England, Bastardy Records, 1690-1914
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2582

Detailed list of the records in this collection:

• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Bastardy receipts, 1803–1822
• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Accounts of payments to mothers of illegitimate children and receipts under filiation orders, 1806–1825
• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Bastardy payments,1810–1821
• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Bastardy receipts, 1826–1843
• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Payments to women previous to filiating and bastardy payments, 1827–1843
• Bingley and Haworth Township records, Filiation orders, 1834
• Magistrates' minute book covering Bingley, Idle, Heaton, Keighley and Haworth, 1817–1821
• Bradford City Court Bastardy orders, 1894–1947
• Brighouse Borough Bastardy orders, 1899–1951
• Brotherton St Edward parish records, Bastardy orders, 1848
• Upper Osgoldcross Court at Castleford, Bastardy orders, 1888–1946
• Darrington with Wentbridge St Luke & All Saints parish records, Illegitimacy papers, 1794–1824
• Emley St Michael parish records, 1743–1839
• Hemsworth St Helen parish records, Bastardy bonds, 1690–1765
• Horbury St Peter parish records, Bastardy book, 1834–1846
• Huddersfield Magistrates, 1877–1899
• Keighley division, Applications for bastardy orders, 1848–1880
• Keighley (Court at Bingley), 1844–1915
• Keighley (Court at Bingley), 1895–1959
• Kippax St Mary parish records, Bastardy Orders, 1798–1843
• Northowram Township bastardy accounts, 1817–1829
• Royston St John the Baptist parish records, Bonds of putative fathers, 1714–1830
• Royston St John the Baptist parish records, Affiliation papers and correspondence, 1770–1830
• Royston St John the Baptist parish records, Affiliation accounts and vouchers, 1789–1826
• Royston St John the Baptist parish records, Filiation orders, 1796–1831
• Royston St John the Baptist parish records, Filiation proceedings, warrants, etc., 1812–1826
• Sandal Magna St Helen parish records, 1783–1840
• Sandal Magna St Helen parish records, Warrants to apprehend fathers, 1795–1830
• Sandal Magna St Helen parish records, Bonds of Maintenance, 1796–1799
• Sandal Magna St Helen parish records, Summons to reputed fathers, 1820–1831
• Sandal Magna St Helen parish records, Warrants for disobeying bastardy orders, 1825–1842
• Slaithwaite Bastardy orders, 1854
• South Kirby All saints parish records, Filiation orders, 1792–1813
• Thornhill Township Filiation orders and papers, 1767–1843
• Thornhill Township Bastardy accounts, 1827–1857
• Wakefield Borough, 1870–1915

The collection is sourced from West Yorkshire Archive Service in Wakefield

Chris

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