Kirklees Bastardy Topic List

The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available.

Almondbury township, bastardy records 1834-1837, included in bundle of miscellaneous township papers KC165/410

Appeal by John Sykes of Leeds against bastardy claim by Charlotte Barber for a female child born at Austonley 1816 KC165/410

Clayton West township, filiation papers 1812-1824 KC311/5/1

Dewsbury paupers weekly pay books 1802-1838 including bastardy payments; bastardy books 1812-1850 (microfilm) KX309-310

Dewsbury Township, bastardy accounts 1812-1840 KC1042

Honley township, bastardy bonds 1750-1798 (9 items) CP/Ho/OP/10-18

Honley township, settlement certificates re pregnant single women 1830-1834 (14 items) CP/Ho/OP/53-66

J J Meare, letters to a friend advising her as to obtaining maintenance for her child 1852 (photocopies) KX348

Mirfield township, bastardy list for Farside Moor hamlet 1821 U/Mi/14

Mirfield township, bastardy lists 1817-1821 and bastardy books 1821-1839 U/Mi/16-21

Rev John Murgatroyd, Lingards, diary 1802, includes information re his servant Phoebe Beatson, who becomes pregnant by George Thorp; Thorp refused to marry her; Rev Murgatroyd visited Thorp's mother; privately baptized the child when it was born; and helped Phoebe apply for a filiation order KC242/6

Soothill township, filiation orders 1767-1843 (microfilm) KX314

South Crosland township, notes on bastard children 1768-1778 (in overseers' accounts for 1700-1786) CP/SC/1

Thurstonland township, filiation orders (104 items) 1767-1834 KC271/38-42

Thurstonland township, maintenance bonds (9 items) 1695-1824 KC271/43

Thurstonland township, arrest warrants re bastardy and apprenticeship 1766-1843 (13 items) KC271/53

Thurstonland township, solicitors' costs re Hannah Marsh and her two children supposed bastards 1771-1772 (in overseers' account book for 1716-1772) KC271/10

Thurstonland township, memorandum re filiation order 1805 (in town book for 1796-1809) KC271/2

Thurstonland township, copy agreement re maintenance of a child 1835 (in town book for 1820-1836) KC271/4