The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1790-1834
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| ID | 3583754 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Samantha Williams (0000-0002-1415-097X, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 945-971 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ehr.12279 |
| OpenAlex | W2391004916 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 46 |
This article examines the dynamics of the maintenance of illegitimate children inLondon during the protracted 'crisis' of the old poor law between the 1790s and the 1830s. This was a period of rapidly rising illegitimacy as well as national, and metropolitan, poor law expenditure. The affiliation system offered parish officials a parallel system by which poor rates could be deflated, but analysis of the 1834TownQueries reveals that metropolitan parishes could be particularly poor at recovering the costs of chargeable bastards from putative fathers. The article interrogates in detail the workings of the affiliation system inSouthwark andLambeth in terms of the proportion of fathers (and mothers) who paid maintenance for their children, either in lump sums or in weekly allowances, plus the associated costs of childbirth and legal fees, the range of weekly sums, which could be higher than previously thought, and the duration for which they were paid, which could be surprisingly long. The article reveals a complex system, variable at the parochial and regional level, as was the wider old poor law
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The origins of the children of the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1760
Illegitimacy and its implications in mid-eighteenth-century London
Poor families, removals and ‘nurture’ in late Old Poor Law London
Marriage and Society
Industrialization and Regional Inequality
The Character of Credit
The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink
London Lives
Carnal Knowledge
Law's Empire
The Development of Poor Relief in Lancashire, C. 1598–1680
Was there an ‘industrious revolution’ before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300-1830
Summary Justice in Early Modern London
Bastardy and its Comparative History
Bastardy and the New Poor Law
Debate the Making of the New Poor Law Redivivus
The Summary Courts and Social Relations in Eighteenth-Century England
Illegitimacy, paternal financial responsibility, and the 1834 Poor Law Commission Report
Lost Londons
The Standard of Living in the Long Run
English servants and their employers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
English county populations in the later eighteenth century1
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