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SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1908-1913   Relief of deserted and destitute wives and families; reciprocal arrangements between UK and the Colonies: Imperial Conference   1911....MH 57/182B-
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1945-1948   Jersey and Guernsey: nationality of illegitimate children born during the German occupation HO 45/22399/890358/5, 6, 13, 21, 22,   57, 64, 117A, 129, 132, 169
1916   Order in Council re disposal of Naval assets of men of illegitimate birth dying intestate   ADM 1/8467/216
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1929   Procedure re payment of children's allowance and widows' pension when the child of a deceased Naval Officer is maintained in an institution   ADM 1/8734/66
1951;1957   Administrative instructions for WRAF officers in dealing with pregnancy cases   AIR 10/6561-6562
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1926-1930   Effect of Adoption of Children Act 1926 on pensions and marriage allowances   AIR 2/354/925430/29
1930   Marriage allowance for children adopted by airmen or their wives: questions arising on exceptional cases   AIR 2/366/7148/30
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1926-1931   Question of issue of Marriage Allowance for illegitimate children or children of whom airman is not the father   AIR 2/376/73068/30
1943-1945   RAF: illegitimate children of airmen: maintenance where complainants are resident outside UK   AIR 2/7290
1919-1922   Conference on Interpretation of 'Appropriated in Liquidation' Sections of Army, Naval and Air Force Acts relating to maintenance of illegitimate children 1919-1921   AIR 2/99/A11466
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1939-1943   Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act 1939 HO 45/19299/823375   and HO 45/19300/823375
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1982   Law Commission: Illegitimacy (No 98) (open)   BC 1/120
1986   Law Commission: Second Report on Illegitimacy (Cmd 9913) (open)   BC 1/159
1968   Law Commission: blood tests and proof of paternity in civil proceedings (open)   BC 1/17
1967   Working Papers: proof of paternity in civil proceedings (open)   BC 2/12
1966   Working Papers: restrictions upon publicity in legitimacy proceedings (open)   BC 2/2
1979   Law Commission: Illegitimacy (open)   BC 2/74
1979   Working Papers: Illegitimacy (open)   BC 2/74
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1968-1972   Committee to enquire into Adoption Law, and membership   BN 29/1098-1099
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1968-1973   Committee on One-Parent Families: establishment and papers   BN 29/1103-1106
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1965-1966   Guardianship: issue of passports to minors   BN 29/1347
1973-1974   Guardianship of Minors Acts, 1971 and 1973: consideration of Magistrates' Courts Rules   BN 29/1349
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1967-1970   'Problems of unmarried mothers and their children': 1967 report by Ministry of Health; Home Office comments   BN 29/1350
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1971-1972   Guardianship of Minors Bill 1971: proposals   BN 29/1362
1972-1973   Guardianship Bill 1973   BN 29/1364-1367
1957-1962   Adoption Bill 1957   BN 29/22-36
1960-1961   Isle of Man: Adoption Bill 1961   BN 29/277
1964   Isle of Man: Adoption Bill 1964   BN 29/281
1961-1965   Adoption (Jersey) Law 1961-1965   BN 29/368-369
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1969   Legitimacy (Jersey) Law 1969   BN 29/373
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1955-1976   Adoption (Consolidation) Bill 1958   BN 29/37-45
1958-1968   Adoption Act 1958   BN 29/522-530
1958-1970   Adoption   BN 29/531-561
1963   Adoption Act 1926: proposed repeal of s.5(3)   BN 29/730
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1975-1976   Seven mother and baby homes: report by research branch   BN 34/63
1969   One Parent Families: 2 parts   BN 72/16
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1886   Deceased illegitimate seamen: claims of creditors on estate   BT 15/26/F4532/86
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1887   Deceased seaman: claim to estate by adopted daughter   BT 15/27/F6985/87
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1926   Bastardy Law Amendment Act: position of seamen in connection with s.28, Merchant Shipping Act 1906   BT 15/81/F2522/26
1939-1945   'Illegitimacy and Unmarries Mothers' H Fitzgerald, M Worthley and A Ashley: unpublished narrative   CAB 102/771
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1939-1945   'Illegitimacy and Unmarried Mothers' H Fitzgerald, M Worthley and A Ashley: unpublished narrative   CAB 102/771
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1939-1945   Adoption of children: regulations   CAB 102/791
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1919-1920   Bastardy Bill: provision for illegitimate children   CAB 26/2
1922   Legitimacy Bill: children of unmarried parents   CAB 26/4
1925-1926   Legitimacy Bill: children of unmarried parents   CAB 26/7-8
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1952-1963   Tonga: adoption   CO 1009/491
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1954-1956   Legitimation legislation: general enquiries   CO 1026/102
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1952-1953   Adoption of children in the Colonies, under UK legislation; work of the Committee appointed to report to the Secretary of State   CO 1026/20
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1952-1953   Enquiries concerning various cases involving legitimation of children in Colonial territories   CO 1026/31
1952-1953   British Nationality Act 1948: treatment of British Protected and British Registered Persons; question of status of illegitimate half-castes in New Hebrides   CO 1026/8
1951-1952   Bermuda: efforts to control the growth of population and illegitimacy   CO 1031/953
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1931-1932   Hong Kong: status of step-children and adopted children   CO 129/537/12
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1927-1928   Leeward Islands: Legitimacy Act   CO 152/403/16
1928   Leeward Islands: Legitimacy Act   CO 152/407/19
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1931   Straits Settlements: adopted Chinese girl Janet Err Nya (or Grant): request for naturalisation   CO 273/573/21
1939   Straits Settlements: Adoption of Children Ordinance no 18 of 1939   CO 273/658/11
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1929-1920   Questionnaire sent by Child Welfare Committee of League of Nations re auxiliary services of juvenile courts and position of illegitimate children in the colonies   CO 323/1026/6
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1930   Ceylon: adoption of children in Ceylon   CO 323/1076/14
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1933   Nationality: illegitimate children born abroad to British subjects   CO 323/1213/17
1937   Legitimacy: summary of law in British Empire concerning legitimation by subsequent marriage   CO 323/1523/11
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1950   Adoption of children   CO 323/1922/10
1950-1951   Adoption of children: Bertha Hartogh   CO 323/1922/11
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1933-1934   Bermuda: The Legitimacy Act, 1933   CO 37/279/1
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1944-1946   Bermuda: The Adoption of Children: Acts and correspondence   CO 37/297/1
1949-1950   Bermuda: The Adoption of Children Act 1944 (Amendment) Act No 75 of 1949   CO 37/302/9
1932-1934   Borneo: report on slavery question: children enslaved under guise of adoption, and mui-tsai system   CO 531/24/17
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1930-1932   Kenya: Legitimacy Bill   CO 533/401/4
1930-1933   Kenya: Legitimacy (Amendment) Ordinance 1931   CO 533/408/12
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1929-1930   Ceylon: proposed legislation relating to adoption and employment of children   CO 54/899/10
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1932-1933   Ceylon: S Silva: claim made by mother of alleged child for maintenance   CO 54/912/6
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1933-1934   Ceylon: child 'adoption'   CO 54/919/4
1939-1940   Ceylon: child 'adoption' and registration of domestic servants: query on draft ordinances: Children & Young Person Ordinance, 1939   CO 54/964/1
1941   Ceylon: child 'adoption' and registration of domestic servants: query on draft ordinances   CO 54/980/3
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1928   Nigeria: Legitimacy Ordinance 1928   CO 583/162/11
1932   Nigeria: enquiry concerning payment of maintenance to mother of illegitimate child by Nigerian student father   CO 583/185/22
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1936   Cyprus: adoption of children for domestic service   CO 67/268/9
1936   Cyprus: adoption of children for domestic service   CO 67/277/3
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1933   Malay States, Federated: Enactment No29 of 1932: Legitimacy Enactment   CO 717/96/4
1941   Selection of officers for occupied enemy territories: illegitimacy: effect on candidature   CO 850/194/18
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1949-1950   Eligibility of adopted children to benefit under Widows and Orphans pension schemes   CO 850/246/2
1959   Medical examination of children adopted by service personnel overseas   CO 859/1017
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1941-1945   Jamaica: training of welfare officers: report on high rate of illegitimacy and its results   CO 859/122/4
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1951   Uganda: adoption of children legislation   CO 859/244/3
1951   Zanzibar: adoption of children legislation   CO 859/244/4
1951-1952   Gibraltar: adoption of children legislation   CO 859/244/5
1951-1952   Bermuda: adoption of children legislation   CO 859/244/6
1951   Fiji: adoption of children legislation   CO 859/244/7
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1940   Position of unmarried mothers in West Africa   CO 859/39/6
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1928   Gibraltar: case arising out of Legitimacy Ordinance 1927: consolidated petition of Solomon Seruya, Paloma Seruya and Isaac Seruya   CO 91/487/20
1932   Gibraltar: Legitimacy (Amendment) Ordinance 1932: explanatory memorandum   CO 91/493/19
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1950-1952   Singapore: Bertha Hartogh, taken by parents to Holland but efforts made to return her to Malaya where she was adopted and brought up   CO 953/10/6
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1944-1945   Dependants' and special dependants' allowances: unmarried wives and children   CO 968/133/8
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1940-1948   Children's Overseas Reception Board: 113 files: see list   DO 131
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1943-1946   Mr L Sellans, alleged father of child of Miss E Cooper N 621/79   DO 35/1154
1943-1946   Social Welfare Legitimacy Act No 16 of 1945 N726/5   DO 35/1156
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1943-1946   Keith Wilkins, adopted English child resident in Canada, question of his return to UK Z 477/1/271   DO 35/1195
1943-1946   Mr B W Heise, Public Health Minister in Canada asks about the possibility of Birth Certificates of British children being issued in their adopted names Z 481/23   DO 35/1196
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1951-1952   Registration in India and Pakistan of births of illegitimate children connected with the UK   DO 35/3548
1930   South Africa: legitimacy law in Griqualand East, South Africa   DO 35/399/12
1931   Legitimacy law in Southern Rhodesia   DO 35/457/5
1956   Passport facilities for illegitimate children born of Pakistan fathers in UK   DO 35/6423
1946-1948   Acceptance of women with illegitimate (wartime) children to teacher training   ED 104/12
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1958-1962   Review of policy regarding students in training colleges and serving teachers who though unmarried are found to be pregnant (NOTE previously closed for 75 years. Opened in 1996 following re-review)   ED 104/22
1979   Training Opportunities Scheme: single parent families TSDL 113 (open)   ET 2/5
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1947-1949   Germany: education: adoption scheme   FO 1013/2230
1948-1949   Germany: ZECO HQ Secretariat, Lubbecke: adoption of German children   FO 1032/1085
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1947   Germany: SHAEF: Political Office Berlin: illegitimate children   FO 1049/893
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1947-1949   Control Commission Germany: Religious Affairs Branch ZEO HQ Bunde: adoptions: general   FO 1050/1584
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1948   Control Commission Germany: Legal Division, ZEO, Ministry of Justice Control Branch Herford: illegitimate children fathered by British service men; proposal to allow German mothers to sue for compensation: policy   FO 1060/1098
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1946-1949   Control Commission Germany: Zonal Office of the Legal Adviser: adoption cases vols I and II   FO 1060/82-84
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1945   Egypt: legitimacy law   FO 141/1017
1930   Egypt: Legitimacy Act 1926   FO 141/560/1229
1934   Egypt: Legitimacy Act 1926   FO 141/563/462
1931   Egypt: Legitimacy Act 1926   FO 141/692/548
1933   Egypt: Legitimacy Act 1926   FO 141/744/1194
1943   Egypt: Legitimacy Act 1926   FO 141/908
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1935   Greece: (262) adoption of children   FO 286/1132
1945   Adoption of Prince Nikita Lobanoff-Rostovski   FO 370/1146
1947   Adoption of children: answers to sundry questions   FO 370/1446
1949   Adoption of children   FO 370/1755
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1949   General Register Office requests for legitimacy laws of Czechoslovakia: State of Maine and of Wilmington, Delaware, USA   FO 370/1827
1951   Requests for information on legitimacy laws of various countries and of some states of the USA   FO 370/2115
1952   Scottish legitimacy legislation; Kansas State legitimacy law; information to Consulate in Honolulu and to the Austrian Authorities; Swedish legitimacy law   FO 370/2204
1939   Recognition and legitimation of illegitimate children in England   FO 370/583/1204
1939   Education and maintenance of illegitimate children of the Brazilian Catholic clergy   FO 370/583/2481
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1940   Adoption of British children by British subjects resident abroad   FO 370/591/70
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1944   Law of legitimacy in the various states of the US and Egypt   FO 370/953
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1944   Adoption of twins by British subject in Spain   FO 370/998
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1953   USA: GI Brides: enforcement of affiliation orders in paternity cases   FO 371/103569
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1955   Germany: Allied High Commission Draft Law on Validation of Legitimation and Adoption   FO 371/118453
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1955   Germany: Allied High Commission Draft Law on Validation of Legitimation and Adoption   FO 371/118453
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1956   Denmark: Adoption Act 1956 of Denmark   FO 371/122255
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1959   Germany: position in UK of unmarried mothers from FRG   FO 371/146088
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1961   Council of Europe (WUC): Convention on Adoption of Children   FO 371/161263
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1966   UN: discrimination: illegitimacy, conscientious objectors and Soviet Jews   FO 371/189985
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1966   Council of Europe: adoption of children   FO 371/190604
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1944   Maintenance of illegitimate children of members of the US forces   FO 371/42308
1944   Maintenance of illegitimate children of members of US forces   FO 371/42308
1944   Denmark: paternity cases in the Faroes   FO 371/43109
1945   Paternity cases in Iceland   FO 371/47480
1945   Paternity cases in Switzerland   FO 371/49685
1946   USA: travel facilities to UK for US husbands of British girls: problems relating to GI brides and illegitimate children: desertion of GI brides by US servicemen: provision of legal and financial aid to GI brides   FO 371/51617-51623
1946   Allied Administrative Affairs: maintenance claims in respect of illegitimate children   FO 371/54453
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1946   Austria: adoption of child of Elisabeth Leiler   FO 371/55331
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1946   Austria: illegitimate children of members of Occupying Forces   FO 371/55334
1946   Denmark: sundry paternity cases involving Danish and British nationals   FO 371/56143
1946   Iceland: sundry divorce and paternity cases   FO 371/56263
1946   Norway: position of children born out of wedlock   FO 371/56328
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1946   Adoption of refugee children   FO 371/57873
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1947   Germany: question of claims for the support of alleged illegitimate children of British personnel serving in Germany   FO 371/64357
1947   Request for legitimation of birth of child of Mr W J Eggleston, born in Austria   FO 371/64684
1947   Germany: social welfare problems: orders of legitimation under German law   FO 371/64730
1947   Germany: re-registration of births of illegitimate children subsequently legitimised   FO 371/64929
1948   Germany: paternity cases in British Zone. Requests for assistance in respect of illegitimate children   FO 371/70845
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1948   Adoption of refugee children in Europe   FO 371/72080A
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1948   Maintenance of illegitimate children of displaced persons   FO 371/72085
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1948   Netherlands West Indies Round Table Conference: expulsion of British West Indian unmarried mothers from Aruba   FO 371/73259
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1949   USA: paternity cases against US servicemen   FO 371/74268
1950   USA: possibility of bringing affiliation proceedings in the US on behalf of British women resident in the UK   FO 371/81773
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1950   Arabia: laws of adoption in the Persian Gulf   FO 371/82156
1952   Germany: enquiry from a British subject writing to adopt his German step-child   FO 371/98199
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1944   Paternity cases in the Forces   FO 372/3818
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1935-1939   Passports: adoption of children   FO 612/179
1946-1950   Passports: adoption of children   FO 612/274
1951-1954   Passports: adoption of children   FO 612/289
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1941-1942   Denmark: Thorshavn: paternity claims against members of the British Forces   FO 649/28
1948-1949   Denmark: Thorshavn: orders for maintenance of illegitimate children against members of the British Forces   FO 649/29-30
1918   Tahiti: illegitimate children of Captain Eric Osman   FO 687/18
1898   China 6: illegitimate Anglo-Chinese children born in British Dominions: Confidential Print   FO 881/8152
1852   Illegitimate children born abroad of English parents are not British subjects, and not entitled to protection: Confidential Print   FO 881/973
1948   Illegitimate children born in Aruba and Curaçao of British parents   FO 907/35
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1965   Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Recognition of Decrees relating to adoption   FO 93/1/773
1967   European Convention on the Adoption of Children   FO 93/1/797
1946-1948   Control Office: Germany: adoption of children   FO 937/128
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1946-1947   Control Office: Germany: illegitimate children   FO 937/136
1975   Strasbourg: European Convention on the Legal Status of Children Born out of Wedlock (open)   FO 949/263
1947   Proposal for reciprocal agreements on paternity cases   FO 950/210
1930-1933   Insurance of illegitimate children   FS 23/249
1850   Request to allow a prisoner in Birmingham Gaol an affiliation order for her illegitimate child   HO 12/12/2887
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1854   Disposal of women and children committed for vagrancy   HO 12/13/3370
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1873-1900   Nationality: status of individuals; married, widowed, divorced, illegitimate see list   HO 144
1885   L.O.O. 768 as to Law of Nationality and Legitimacy   HO 144/152/A39709
1890-1891   Illegitimate child born abroad to British mother   HO 144/324/B9752
1892-1893   Status of an illegitimate child (C F Prest) born in Paris of a Swiss mother and English father L.O.O.768/3   HO 144/346/B13581
1890   Beesting v Johnson. Refusal of Justices Clerk to serve an Order in a bastardy case because prosecutrix had not paid balance of fees to the Court (Burnley Gaurdians)   HO 144/478/X26742
1895   Bastardy: Mary Saunders v James Dicker. Justices Clerk acting as solicitor for prosecution is highly undesirable   HO 144/501/X51117
1895   Bastardy: army pension not available for payment of contributions   HO 144/502/X53423
1897   Position of Bastardy Order prisoner in regard to criminal lunatic   HO 144/511/X64589
1906-1907   The Prerogative 1) Bastardy cases 2) cases of non-payment of wife's maintenance L. O.O.   HO 144/844/147516
1944   Illegitimate children born abroad to British women: discussion of methods of conferring British nationality   HO 213/179
1939   Naturalisation of minors: inclusion of illegitimate child in certificate granted to parent   HO 213/20
1962-1963   Proposed Private Member's Bill to grant British nationality to all illegitimate children born abroad to a mother of British Nationality   HO 213/2308
1964   Proposed Bill to grant British nationality to all illegitimate children born abroad to a mother of British nationality   HO 213/2343
1948   British Nationality Act 1948: effect on illegitimate children born in China   HO 213/425
1946-1947   Entry into UK: unmarried mothers; illegitimate children   HO 213/731
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1946-1947   Entry into UK: unmarried mothers; illegitimate children   HO 213/731
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1924   N Ireland: Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Bill   HO 267/612
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1960-1964   Adoption: barriers raised by law of domicile between separate jurisdictions of the UK; Adoption Act 1964   HO 284/86
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1975-1976   Request by descendant of illegitimate line of a family to use the family arms   HO 286/118-119
1958-1959   Children: Legitimacy Bill 1959   HO 291/134
1956-1957   Guardianship of Illegitimate Infants Bill 1956   HO 291/4
1954-1959   Maintenance and affiliation: Committee on Matrimonial Proceedings in Magistrates' Courts   HO 291/69-75
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1957   Adoption Bill 1957: local authority expenses   HO 362/17
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1890-1979   Precedence Books: Miscellaneous vol 2 (including pre 1948 notes on bastardy and affiliation orders)   HO 384/45
1892-1912   Bastardy: Justices hearing cases 'in camera'   HO 45/10429/A53684
1909-1914   Affiliation Orders Bill 1914   HO 45/10574/177263
1910-1915   Illegitimacy and Maternity Bills   HO 45/10603/190394
1914-1915   Affiliation Orders Act 1914   HO 45/10729/255146
1910-1924   Isle of Man: Bastardy Acts   HO 45/11497/190722
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1915-1924   Adoption of Children Bills, 1922 and 1923. Report of Committee on Child Adoption   HO 45/1150/354040
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1924   Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act (N Ireland) 1924   HO 45/11697/456666
1920-1926   Reform of Legitimacy Laws: Bastardy, Illegitimacy and Legitimacy Bills 1920-1926   HO 45/12259/405558
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1924-1927   Adoption of Children Bills 1924-1926. Report of the Tomlin Committee, 1925   HO 45/12642/456209
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1925-1927   Channel Islands: law relative to the maintenance of illegitimate children 1927   HO 45/12665/487299
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1926-1927   Adoption of Children Act 1926: operation of the Act. Adoption of Children (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules 1926   HO 45/12695/496773
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1845-1848   Bastardy: mother giving evidence on an appeal   HO 45/1310
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1931   Adoption of Children Act 1926: no provision for appeal to Quarter Sessions   HO 45/14347/582949
1920-1932   Child adoption: protection of infant life. The inspection of voluntary homes   HO 45/14607/402351
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1927-1933   Isle of Man: Legitimacy Acts 1928 and 1933   HO 45/15137/510697
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1933-1937   Adoption of Children Acts 1926: general papers   HO 45/17061/669162
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1927-1939   Legitimacy Act 1926: miscellaneous questions   HO 45/17970/503655
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1937-1939   Adoption of Children (Regulation) Bill 1938   HO 45/18243/802769
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1924-1927   Illegitimacy and Bastardy Bills 1924, 1925 and 1927   HO 45/19015/475317
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1930-1932   Adoption of Children Act 1926: points of law and practice   HO 45/21466/563548 and 20467/563548
1943-1947   Adoption: Transfer Abroad Rules 1943 and memorandum   HO 45/23127/828654
1949   Isle of Man: Adoption of Children Bill 1949   HO 45/23482/929126
1949   Channel Islands: Adoption of Children Bill 1949   HO 45/23482/929126
1949   Adoption of Children Bill (N Ireland) 1949   HO 45/23482/929209
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1847-1848   Italian deserts wife and child: their support requested by Roman governments   HO 45/2403
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1925-1936   Illegitimate children: departmental correspondence with League of Nations Child Welfare Committee   HO 45/24853/480021
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1948-1954   Adoption: disclosure of criminal record of prospective parents   HO 45/25296/942213
1950   Adoption Act 1950: points for inclusion in legislation   HO 45/25303/944810
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1850   Costs of maintaining an Affiliation Order allowed after taxation   HO 45/3283
1852   Power to compel a putative father to give evidence in a bastardy case   HO 45/4247
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1854   Poor Law: no power to allow relief to families of soldiers serving abroad   HO 45/5479
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1858   Illegitimate child of British mother born in France: no action as not a British subject   HO 45/6667
1859   Execution of bastardy warrants: means to prevent abuse by police officers on receiving money   HO 45/6824
1859   Illegitimate child (born abroad) of deceased English women brought home from Asia Minor   HO 45/6855
1844-1845   Power of police magistrates in bastardy cases   HO 45/761
1860   Stiffe to Everitt: petitioner to inherit £4000 on condition that he adopt the name of Everitt (his mother being illegitimate daughter of Sir Everitt)   HO 45/8468
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1862   Change of name: Possett to Courthorpe (name and arms): petitioner to take the name of her adoptive uncle   HO 45/8472
1862   Uncle's arms (Courthorpe): uncle asks that his adopted niece bear his arms. Granted   HO 45/8472
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1863   Change of name: Jones to St Paul: petitioner (as illegitimate son of Sir Horace St Paul) to adopt father's name   HO 45/8476
1866   Change of name: Anelay to Thompson: petitioner's request (as illegitimate son) to adopt mother's married name on event of his own marriage   HO 45/8488
1853   Change of name: Storhand to Allenby and Bean to Allenby. Illegitimate sons to whom father wished to devise property wished to take his name. Legitimate representatives objected: refusal   HO 45/8750
1844   Grant of denization: H I Gotz and Miss M Gotz, son and daughter (illegitimate) of British father who wished to settle property on them. Petition from father (G W Chad). Granted   HO 45/8948
1847   Grant of denization: Mrs A S M Maas (The Hague), illegitimate daughter of British subject, to enable her to hold landed property left to her by her father. Granted   HO 45/8959
1848   Denization: Mr Charles Hope, the natural son of a British subject, who was born in China of a Chinese mother. Interest in land. Granted   HO 45/8962
1872-1873   Bastardy Laws and Amendment   HO 45/9316/15434
1876   Refusal of putative father to answer questions in court L.O.O. 392   HO 45/9403/53295
1876-1877   Bastardy: Admiralty have no power to stop pay of seamen towards Court Order   HO 45/9423/59714
1880   Amendments to Bastardy Laws Bill introduced   HO 45/9597/95956
1880-1881   Certificate of Nationality cannot be granted to illegitimate children born abroad   HO 45/9599/97632
1880   Illegitimate orphan child of British mother in Switzerland not chargeable to public funds   HO 45/9599/97942
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1882-1884   Action to obtain possession of three children registered as British subjects residing with Italian mother in Italy. Documents to be authenticated and signatures and seals verified for Italian Courts   HO 45/9631/A24251
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1899   Treatment of prisoners neglecting to pay Bastardy or Affiliation Orders   HO 45/9756/A60999
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1891   French Bill: asylums for newly born children   HO 45/9841(?)/B10859
1914-1918   Destitute wives and children of enemy aliens   HO 45/not traced/272042
1979   This Week in Britain Series: One Parent Family 1978   INF 6/1321
1993   Personal Taxpayer Series Leaflets: A guide for one-parent families   IR 122/16
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1858-1942   Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate: Divorce and Admiralty Division, Principal Probate Registry: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files (J 78 Indexes)   J 77/1-3968
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1873-1990   Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Action Papers: cases: see list   J 84/1-315
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1943   Principal Probate Registry: S A Thornton deceased: question as to whether illegitimate issue of illegitimate daughter has a title to a grant   J 86/146
1910   Warrant: solicitor for affairs of HM Treasury to administer, in certain cases, to the personal estates of intestate bastards and others dying without known kin   J 86/288
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1942-1958   Guardianship of Infants Act 1925, Children Act 1948, Adoption Orders and Custody Order   J 86/419
1919   Ministry of Labour: adopted children: minute by General Asquith raising the question whether children's allowance may be given in the case of an adopted child   LAB 2/1518/DRA203/42
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1969-1970   Midlands Regional Office: committee on one parent families   LAB 21/110
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1926-1927   Adoption of Children (County Court) Rules 1926   LCO 2/1120
1928-1932   Adopted Children's Register: recording birth   LCO 2/1159
1933-1942   Adoption of Children (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules, 1836-1939 and 1941-1942   LCO 2/1160-1161
1935-1936   Adoption Societies and Agencies: Committee of Inquiry into activities of: evidence and report   LCO 2/1162
1933   Adoption Orders: form of consent   LCO 2/1276
1943-1945   Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act 1939   LCO 2/3020-3021
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1944-1945   Illegitimate children: US Forces   LCO 2/3277
1949   Illegitimate children: powers of putative fathers over   LCO 2/3600
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1949   Adoption of Children (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules 1949   LCO 2/4456
1949-1950   The Adoption of Children (High Court) Rules 1950   LCO 2/4457
1949-1950   Memo to County Court Judges, Registrars and High Bailiffs concerning Adoption of Children Act 1949 and Adoption of Children (County Court) Rules 1949   LCO 2/4458-4459
1949-1950   Adoption of Children Bill   LCO 2/4483
1950-1962   Adoption of Children Acts 1926 and 1949 Rules etc.   LCO 2/4773-4781
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1956   Guardianship of Infants Acts 1886 and 1925: application to illegitimate children   LCO 2/5641
1953-1955   Enforcement of affiliation orders against American Servicemen   LCO 2/6235
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1958-1964   Adoption of Children Acts: see list   LCO 2/6418-6429
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1959-1960   Legitimacy Bill 1959   LCO 2/6895-6898
1921-1925   Legitimacy Bill 1924: general correspondence, reports, notes   LCO 2/750-754
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1956-1963   Law of Adoption: proposal that subject be referred to Private International Law Committee for consideration   LCO 2/7857
1963-1969   Hague Convention on International Adoption of Children: Scarman Committee   LCO 2/7872-7880
1966   Expedition of proceedings in adoption cases: Parliamentary questions   LO 2/744
1960   Status of the confidential report to Justices in adoption cases   LO 2/777
1966   Wardship and adoption cases: delays in Chancery Division: Parliamentary questions   LO 2/786
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1907   Affiliation Orders   LO 3/177
1907   Gunner Crutchley: bastardy cases   LO 3/189
1924   Opinion: Army Act 1881 s.145 (2): deductions from soldiers' pay, costs, funeral expenses of births of illegitimate children   LO 3/725
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1928   Adoption of Children Act 1926; Affiliation Orders   LO 3/910
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1928   Adoption of Children Act 1926; Affiliation Orders   LO 3/910
1933   Peter Woodruff Batten, falsely registering the name of his illegitimate child   MEPO 3/1550
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1913   Murder of Winifred Tombs (adopted child) by Emily Rosina Stanton on 4 October   MEPO 3/236A
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1933   Fred Morse: charged with murder of Dorothy Winifred Brewer aged 12¾ (who was pregnant), by drowning at Curry Mallet, Somerset   MEPO 3/868
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1933   Fred Morse: charged with murder of Dorothy Winifred Brewer aged 12¾ (who was pregnant), by drowning at Curry Mallet, Somerset   MEPO 3/868
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1942-1948   Adoption and illegitimacy   MH 102/1362-1373B
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1942-1948   Adoption and illegitimacy   MH 102/1362-1373B
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1946-1954   Proposed maternity homes for pregnant girls committed to approved schools: meeting charitable organisations and Home Office representatives: correspondence   MH 102/1452/901428
1948   National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (Inc): offer of assistance   MH 102/1616
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1949   Proposed adoption by wife aged 20 and husband aged 21 of the wife's illegitimate son aged 4   MH 102/1804
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1949   Proposed adoption by wife aged 20 and husband aged 21 of the wife's illegitimate son aged 4   MH 102/1804
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1949   Adoption of Children Bill 1949   MH 102/1833-1875
1950-1957   Adoption Societies' Regulations   MH 102/1988-1991
1949-1950   Adoption of Children Act 1949   MH 102/2019-2020
1950-1951   Adoption statistics   MH 102/2021
1952   International Union for Child Welfare: report on 'Adoption trends in England and Wales'   MH 102/2024
1950-1954   Adoption: various   MH 102/2025-2031
1949-1956   Adoption Rules   MH 102/2111-2133
1949   Adoption Rules: deputation from National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child received at the Home Office 16 December   MH 102/2112
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1949   Adoption Rules: deputation from National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child received at the Home Office 16 December   MH 102/2112
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1945-1950   Adoption   MH 102/2256-2263
1952   Marriage of adopted children: status on certificate   MH 102/2444
1951-1953   Adoption arrangements   MH 102/2541-2546
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1951-1953   Registration of mother and baby homes   MH 102/2585
1949   Mother and Baby Homes: directory of homes and hostels published by National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child   MH 102/839
1949-1951   Mother and Baby Homes: lists of voluntary homes forwarded by Ministry of Health: correspondence etc.   MH 102/840
1948-1962   Care of the unmarried mother and her child   MH 134/67
1943-1952   Accommodation for unmarried mothers: policy   MH 134/76
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1963   Adoption procedures: need for medical report showing test for syphilis   MH 156/42
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1962-1963   Illegitimate children: responsibility for carrying out blood tests in affiliation cases   MH 156/50
1945-1946   Mental defectives: issue of certificate of non-access on behalf of patient whose wife has borne an illegitimate child   MH 51/499
1949-1954   Mental defectives: liability to contribute towards maintenance of illegitimate child   MH 51/500
1952-1958   Mental defectives: arrangements for care of illegitimate children born of certified defectives   MH 51/501
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1946   Dorsetshire County Council: financial responsibility for maintenance of unmarried mothers   MH 52/420
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1936-1944   Dorsetshire County Council: children under school age and illegitimate children: health supervision and welfare   MH 52/423
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1951-1954   Dorsetshire County Council: care of unmarried mothers and their children; long stay hostel, St Faith's, Parkstone   MH 52/497
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1936-1945   Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council: children under school age and illegitimate children: health supervision and welfare   MH 52/542
1936-1945   Harrogate Borough Council: children under school age and illegitimate children: health supervision and welfare   MH 52/551
1952   Manchester County Borough Council: care of illegitimate children and their mothers   MH 52/646
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1942-1960   Mother and baby homes: lists; surveys; revision of leaflet   MH 55/1509-1510
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1943-1960   Illegitimacy: general purposes sub-committee 1943-1944   MH 55/1652
1943-1945   Illegitimacy: correspondence arising from circular 2866   MH 55/1653
1945   Illegitimacy: questionnaire to selected medical officers of health   MH 55/1654
1945-1946   Illegitimacy: accommodation in residential nurseries   MH 55/1655
1944-1948   Illegitimacy: homes for coloured children   MH 55/1656
1944-1957   Illegitimacy: paternity test   MH 55/1657-1658
1947-1948   Illegitimacy: arrangements with local authorities and moral welfare associations   MH 55/1659
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1961-1963   Survey of homes for unmarried mothers and their babies   MH 55/2330
1958-1962   Medical examination for VD of unmarried pregnant girls admitted to mother and baby homes   MH 55/2345-2346
1962-1963   National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child: working party on needs of unmarried mothers and their children with special reference to residential care   MH 55/2347
1961-1963   National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child: financial assistance   MH 55/2349-2350
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1921-1938   Illegitimacy: changes in affiliation proceedings   MH 55/2773
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1921-1922   Poor Law: the unmarried mother and her child; the Archbishop's Advisory Board for Spiritual and Moral Welfare; co-operation between rescue workers and the poor law; memorandum to General Inspectors   MH 57/145B
1913-1918   Outdoor relief: relief to women and children   MH 57/182A
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1938-1940   League of Nations: Advisory Committee on Social Questions; illegitimacy   MH 57/299
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1948-1958   Care and support of women 'in moral danger': unmarried mothers and babies (closed 50 years)   MH 57/566
1953-1956   Unmarried and unsupported mothers in Part III accommodation: regional survey   MH 57/572
1943-1950   Cardiff County Borough Council: unmarried mothers and their children   MH 96/1372
1944-1968   Swansea County Borough Council: care of unmarried mothers and their children   MH 96/1387
1939-1963   Swansea County Borough Council: care of unmarried mothers and their children   MH 96/1390
1919-1948   Monmouthshire County Council: Lady Mather-Jackson Nantyderry Maternity Home and Hostel for Unmarried Mothers   MH 96/836-838
1919-1943   Cardiff County Borough Council: Salvation Army home for mothers and infants   MH 96/846
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1934   Workmen's Compensation Bill papers: Adoption of Children Bill   PIN 11/15
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1919-1926   War Pensions: treatment allowances in respect of illegitimate children of pensioners undergoing treatment   PIN 15/1296-1297
1930-1933   War Pensions: children's allowances: extension beyond age 16 years: illegitimate children   PIN 15/1517
1919-1924   War Pensions: illegitimate children of officers: amendment to Special Grants Regulations (Officers) 1920   PIN 15/1752
1923   War Pensions: pensions and allowances to illegitimate children: father discharged his liability by payment of lump sum to mother   PIN 15/1753
1924   War Pensions: illegitimate children: sanction under Dispensing Warrant to benefits of Royal Warrant: allowances when legal widow in receipt of a pension   PIN 15/1754
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1922   War Pensions: question whether legal adoption invalidates a claim in respect of a child   PIN 15/221
1920-1930   War Pensions: interpretation of 'stepchild' to include illegitimate child   PIN 15/223-224
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1920-1930   War Pensions: interpretation of 'stepchild' to include illegitimate child   PIN 15/223-224
1941-1965   War Pensions: termination of allowances for illegitimate children where agreement exists limiting the father's liability to a given age   PIN 15/2752
1942-1955   War Pensions: motherless illegitimate children: increase of pension when father dies   PIN 15/2753
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1947-1951   War Pensions: post-injury adoption   PIN 15/2754
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1923-1958   War Pensions: paternity of children for whom allowances are claimed   PIN 15/2970-2971
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1940-1956   War Pensions: family allowances: adopted children and step-children   PIN 15/2993
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1924-1933   War Pensions: dispensing Warrant awards: general authority for awards to motherless and illegitimate children, separated wives of officers and men who died outside 7 years time limit   PIN 15/3301
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1951-1962   War Pensions: allowance for adopted children   PIN 15/3457
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1952-1961   War Pensions: allowance for illegitimate children   PIN 15/3458
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1941-1958   War Pensions: adoption of motherless children   PIN 15/3482-3483
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1923-1929   War Pensions: Special Grants Committee: scheme to reserve portion of pension of motherless children in employment (other than section 9 children): extension to illegitimate children and children of widows   PIN 15/3953
1943-1944   War Pensions: War Service Grants: payment of family allowance for children whose paternity is in doubt   PIN 15/4018
1919-1923   War Pensions: pensions of officers' widows having both legitimate and illegitimate children   PIN 15/957-958
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1945   National Insurance: widows' guardian benefit: national insurance position of widows with children   PIN 19/17
1956-1964   National Insurance Advisory Committee: widowed mothers   PIN 19/308
1964-1965   National Insurance: Lady Summerskill's Bill: fatherless child allowance   PIN 19/425
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1957   National Insurance: adoption of Dobson Committee Report recommendations: disclosure of addresses on matrimonial and affiliation   PIN 19/447
1963   Earnings Related Short Term Benefits: illegitimate children: industrial injuries aspects   PIN 21/519
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1956   Family Allowances and National Insurance Bill 1956: persons abroad; widows   PIN 34/180
1959-1961   National Insurance: widowed mother's allowance for widows abroad   PIN 34/230
1962   Forward planning: benefits for older pensioners, widowed mothers and chronic sick; earnings limit for dependant wife   PIN 35/196
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1950-1968   Death grants: payment in respect of illegitimate children   PIN 37/9
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1959-1960   Widowed mother's allowance abroad: payments of child's element   PIN 46/119
1950-1951   Widows and children: proposals for improved benefits   PIN 46/34
1951-1964   Pension: widows position when entitlement to child allowance ceases   PIN 46/68
1962-1964   Review of the provisions for widows in regard to the earnings rule and allowances for children   PIN 46/76
1965-1970   Statistics: fatherless families: sample reports   PIN 47/89
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1959-1965   Legitimacy Act 1959: effect on increases of benefit for legitimised children   PIN 55/72
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1952-1973   Adoption of children abroad   PIN 61/22
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1916-1972   Ministry of Pensions and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance: Special Grants Committee: Case Files: including widows' illegitimate children: see list (some closed)   PIN 84/1-33
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1970   Enquiry into the needs and circumstances of families, with special reference to one parent families, for Department of Health and Social Security   RG 23/442-443
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1959-1966   General study of illegitimate births   RG 26/356
1963-1966   Illegitimate children born to married women   RG 26/357
1940-1943   Change of name of illegitimate child: name for identity documents in cases of joint registration   RG 28/60
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1966   Enquiries about adoption procedure GRO No 3   RG 41/61
1922-1964   Adoption: see list   RG 48/123-132
1950-1963   Adoption: see list   RG 48/1455-1481
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1945-1946   Change of name: enquiry from National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child   RG 48/1838
1934-1936   National Council for Unmarried Mother and her Child: correspondence 1949-1952 with National Council Reports 1933, 1934 and 1951-1952 and leaflet 'A Few Points of the Law of England and Wales relating to Unmarried Mothers and their Children' 1934   RG 48/2242
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1966   Registration of children born to married women where husband is not the father   RG 48/2824
1960   Application of S.2 of the Legitimacy Act 1959 by HM Consuls   RG 48/3257
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1949-1988   Adoptions: see list   RG 48/3277-3289
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1925   Description of mother in death entry of illegitimate child   RG 48/36
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1953-1954   Proof of age for old age pension purposes: enquiry from the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child: with 33rd report of the National Council May 1952-May1953   RG 49/17
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1911   Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland. Crown's right with respect to estates tenanted by deceased illegitimate persons in Ireland (16888/11)   T 1/11356/22497/11
1911   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of [Miss] M Thomas, decd (19617/11) [Illegitimate because she was born before the passage of the Deceased Wife's Sisiters Marriage Act 1907]   T 1/11364/23759/11
1912   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of F Blake, decd. (1136/12; 23246/11; 19288/11; 16217/11; 14874/11; 13308/11; 10629/11; 6425/11; 20450/10; 18712/10; 13869/10; 6703/10; 4873/10; 10915/09; 20580/06; 21141/03) [A prolonged and vehement battle for the estate worth £51,000, of an illegitimate intestate lunatic]   T 1/11383/2037/12
1912   General Register Office. Validity of proposed marriage between J C Pope and M E Shore [Woman had an illegitimate child by the brother of her prospective husband]   T 1/11433/11726/12
1913   Board of Trade. Distribution of estate of seamen who are illegitimate and die intestate without leaving lawful heirs (Case of E J Crouch) (5914/13; 26192/12)   T 1/11532/6596/13
1913   Home Office. W and J Estrop and W Wilson, prisoners, HM Prison, Nottingham: release from custody, reduction of escheated recognizances and payment thereof by instalments (18892/13; 18524/13; 18340/13; 18170/13; 17972/13; 16579/13) [A complicated case: a false charge of paternity of an illegitimate child was laid against W Estrop, which he, his father and his father-in-law fought in court and lost; unable to pay costs, they were imprisoned, and their wives and children were thrown on the parish for relief]   T 1/11572/19360/13
1914   Minute. Grant from the Royal Bounty Fund to the daughter of Rev. C W King, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and expert on gemstones [Rev. King had a large illegitimate family; he never married because his Fellowship would have been forfeited]   T 1/11659/16737/14
1914   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of Miss E Field, decd [Illegitimacy due to the marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister]   T 1/11666/18275/14
1915   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of G L A Wilson, decd (numerous file references in the list) [A case of 'bona vacantia' in which an estate of over £100,000 left by General Sir J Wilson, KGB, to his illegitimate (and eccentric) son, was fought over by various relatives]   T 1/11758/7593/15
1915   Board of Trade. Treatment of estates of illegitimate seamen who die intestate (Case of F E Sams, fishing apprentice)   T 1/11796/14767/15
1917   Ministry of Munitions. Miss E Farrar, decd, second filler, No 1 National Filling Factory, Crossgates, Leeds: compensation to dependants [Conflicting claims on behalf of parents and an illegitimate child - a case in which 'the liability for an accident is clear but the facts as to dependancy are not']   T 1/12028/2528/17
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1918   Board of Trade. Payment of War Bonus to a certain officer in respect of an adopted child   T 1/12215/42008/18
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1919   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of G Schneider, decd: grant of the Crown's interest to widow and illegitimate children   T 1/12334/23675/19
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1919   Ministry of Labour. Inclusion of adopted and illegitimate children etc. in the class of dependant children for the purposes of granting supplementary Out of Work Donation (8393/19)   T 1/12377/38549/19
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1919   Ministry of Labour. Inclusion of adopted and illegitimate children etc. in the class of dependant children for the purposes of granting supplementary Out of Work Donation (8393/19)   T 1/12377/38549/19
1919   Public Trustee Office. Estate of Mrs C Gillman, decd: gift of the Crown's share for maintenance of an illegitimate feeble-minded son   T 1/12389/42075/19
1920   Minute. Disposal of estate of illegitimate seamen who die intestate: delegation of powers to the Board of Trade (47628/19; 18778/16)   T 1/12455/64/20
1920   Minute. Effect on the Crown revenues of the Bastardy Bill 1920   T 1/12535/16866/20
1883   John Halpin: legitimacy of his children   T 1/15132
1753   Report on the petition of Colin Donaldson requesting that he be granted 'Ultimus Hares' of Mary Mathere in respect of a heritable security due to her in Scotland but made after the date of her will and not conveyed thereby but falling to the Crown because of her illegitimacy, annexing the case and said petition   T 1/352/102-104
after 1756   Case of Mrs Elizabeth Winch that she might be granted the personal estate of Captain G Winch (illegitimate son of Lord Wilmington) who died intestate   T 1/368/84
1767   Report by Procurator General on the memorial of Elizabeth Richardson, 12 Aug 1767 re the escheat of the personal estate of her illegitimate daughter Anna Pinnock, died aged 7, who had been left £2500 in trust for her at 21, by Edward Manning of Jamaica   T 1/464/116-123
1768   Procurator General: memorial of Elizabeth Jenkin for letters of administration for the estate of her illegitimate son   T 1/468/141-142
1769   Report on memorial of Mary and Hannah Timms for administration of the estate of their niece, died illegitimate and intestate, her mother also being dead   T 1/472/168-173
1769   Report on petition of Elizabeth Warwick for grant of the escheated estate of her mother who died intestate, being herself illegitimate with no legitimate issue   T 1/472/18-23
1769   Report on petition of Sir Henry Burrard, for grant of administration of estate of Daniel Thomas, died intestate and illegitimate, whose property was leased from his daughter Laura Burrard and is falling into decay through lack of administration   T 1/472/45-50
1769   Report on memorial of Robert Browne, for administration of personal estate of James O'Hara who died illegitimate and intestate, in debt to himself and others   T 1/472/62-67
1780   Petition of John and Ann Rogers to have a legacy, they being the residuary legatees. Ask that the Crown renounce any claim upon the estate arising from other bequests to illegitimate children who have died   T 1/563/62-63
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1926-1933   Adoption of Children Act 1926; effect on various service regulations   T 162/304/E20814/1-2
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1924   Illegitimacy Bill 1924   T 163/21/1
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1931   Adoption of Children (Scotland) Bill 1931   T 163/67/2
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1931-1932   Harris, W: claim by dependants against third party under Fatal Accidents Act, and claim under Workmen's Compensation Act on behalf of illegitimate grandchild   T 164/118/11
1938-1939   Regan, L: grant to illegitimate unmarried daughter authorised   T 164/179/14
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1940   Interpretation of wording of Section 11 of Superannuation Act 1935.... definition of 'adopted children'   T 164/188/3
1941   Barling, G, unestablished employee: award of gratuity under Superannuation Act 1914 s.3 in respect of two unadopted children maintained in Government Institutions; formation of trust fund   T 164/195/23
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1943-1944   Elliott, J H, fitter, Air Ministry; no allowance admissable for child born out of wedlock and registered under wife's maiden name   T 164/298
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1945-1946   Gunatilleke, M D N, Naval Fire Service, Ceylon, accidentally drowned: claim by uncle to cover cost of bringing up adopted child   T 164/351
1926-1930   Pensions (Increase) Act 1920: position of adopted children   T 164/66/18
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1930-1958   Departmental policy regarding unmarried mothers   T 215/519
1963-1966   Appointment of married and unmarried women to established posts during pregnancy   T 216/713
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1951   Escheated property: Rights of the Crown in certain cases of illegitimacy   T 221/132
SINGLE PARENTS - General :
1963-1965   National Insurance improvements in benefits for single women with dependants   T 227/1503
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1897-1910   West, or Sackville West v Attorney General. Petition of Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste Sackville West, son of Lord Sackville, under Legitimacy Declaration Act 1858   TS 18/247
1865-1866   Ryves and Ryves v Attorney General: claim of Lavinia Ryves, daughter of Olivia Serres (the self-styled 'Princess of Cumberland') under the Legitimacy Declaration Act 1858 to be of royal descent (see also TS 18/112)   TS 18/48
SINGLE PARENTS - Adoption :
1941-1942   Adoption of Children (Summary Jurisdiction) Rules 1936: procedure in cases of prisoners of war   WO 32/14518
1944   Family allowance for child placed with family of serviceman with view to adoption   WO 32/14519
1951-1960   Adoption of children by soldiers   WO 32/14520
SINGLE PARENTS - Illegitimacy :
1952-1954   Enforcement of Affiliation Orders obtained by German women against British soldiers   WO 32/14950
1823-1829   Deceased illegitimate army surgeon, Thomas Carey, 21st Foot. Disposal of effects. Legal opinion   WO 43/436
1829-1833   Letters from George Borrow from Willow Lane, Norwich, respecting the disembodied militia allowance of brother Lieut John Borrow, West Norfolk militia, who departed to Mexico leaving 2 illegitimate children a charge on the parish   WO 43/516
 
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