kiterunner
02-10-14, 10:44
I'm looking at the "Payments to illegitimate children" records for King's Lynn in the Norfolk Poor Law records on FamilySearch, in particular these pages:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12062-32170-6?cc=1824706&wc=M6V6-738:161088401,161514201,161247401,161559501
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12062-33436-53?cc=1824706&wc=M6V6-738:161088401,161514201,161247401,161559501
I'm not very familiar with these records and getting a bit too excited about this so I would like someone else to look at them and see whether I'm barking up the wrong tree, please.
Does it say Richard Hawkes (Red Cow)? Would he be the father of the illegitimate child? At first I thought it was Dr Richard Hawkes, but it has Dr on every page so I think it is along the lines of Debit / Credit. I found a Richard Hawks marrying an Elizabeth Fuller in King's Lynn in 1815 so maybe he could be the same person.
And what does it say under Eliz Vincent at the top of the right hand page on the second of those images, please?
Also, the dates covered look to be 1830 - 1836, so would the child have been born around 1830, or could she have been born a few years before that, do you think? I'm wondering whether it is continued from a previous record as this book seems to start with 1830.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12062-32170-6?cc=1824706&wc=M6V6-738:161088401,161514201,161247401,161559501
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12062-33436-53?cc=1824706&wc=M6V6-738:161088401,161514201,161247401,161559501
I'm not very familiar with these records and getting a bit too excited about this so I would like someone else to look at them and see whether I'm barking up the wrong tree, please.
Does it say Richard Hawkes (Red Cow)? Would he be the father of the illegitimate child? At first I thought it was Dr Richard Hawkes, but it has Dr on every page so I think it is along the lines of Debit / Credit. I found a Richard Hawks marrying an Elizabeth Fuller in King's Lynn in 1815 so maybe he could be the same person.
And what does it say under Eliz Vincent at the top of the right hand page on the second of those images, please?
Also, the dates covered look to be 1830 - 1836, so would the child have been born around 1830, or could she have been born a few years before that, do you think? I'm wondering whether it is continued from a previous record as this book seems to start with 1830.