Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations 1733 - 1766
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A01=John Black
A01=Tim Hitchcock
Author_John Black
Author_Tim Hitchcock
Bastardy
Category=LA
Chelsea
Children
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Examinations
Father
Historians
Illegitimate
Legal
Life
London
Mid-eighteenth century
Mother
Paternity
Paupers
Perspective
Relief
Rights
Settlement
Product details
- ISBN 9780900952333
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 154 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1999
- Publisher: London Record Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Records of settlement and bastardy examinations held in the parish of Chelsea in the mid-eighteenth century.
The examinations give new insight into the nature of family relationships among the least articulate members of eighteenth-century society. In a whole range of ways the material reproduced here adds a new level of complexity to our understanding of eighteenth-century London and its environs, and the experiences of the approximately fifty per cent of the population who were likely to need relief from the parish at some point during their lives. The volume provides a great deal of information on migration, patterns of courtship and the experience of working and living within the rapidly changing social welfare provision of mid-eighteenth century London.
