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Title: bastardy bonds Market Rasen and Grimsby
Post by: williams-taylor on Monday 31 January 11 22:38 GMT (UK)

Where are these located? Scunthorpe? Lincoln Archives? Parish registers ?I am looking for John with a parent Williams/Tennyson born 1780-1792.Anyone able to help?  W-T

Title: Re: bastardy bonds Market Rasen and Grimsby
Post by: pamthomas on Monday 31 January 11 23:48 GMT (UK)

If they exist, they will be at Lincolnshire Archives.

To find out what records the Archives hold for a particular parish start here.
http://tinyurl.com/5vmkarl

For Market Rasen, click on the M-0 section, then the downloads tab.
Market Rasen is not in alpha order on the list.

The parish registers are under PAR1. Your dates are covered by PAR/1/5 (though in actual fact the registers will have been filmed so you'll look at the fiche which have different reference numbers.  :))

Bastardy bonds will be part of the Overseer of the Poor section so you want PAR13 (see list on first link I gave).

Within the umbrella of 'Overseer of the Poor' you then have various documents, broken down into subsections with the dates.