Huntingdon Bedford and Peterborough Gazette 31 Oct 1835: Thomas Coe to pay maintenance for illegitimate child

TRUMPINGTON PARISH versus THOMAS COE.

This was an application under the recent Act of Parliament for the amendment of the Poor Laws, for an order on the defendant to maintain an illegitimate child of which he is the putative father. The statute enacts that no such order shall be made, unless the evidence of the mother of the child be corroborated in some material particular; but there is a proviso that the court of quarter sessions may make the order if the parish applying for it, shall produce an agreement under the hand of the supposed father to abide by the judgement of the Court. The parish of Trumpington produced such an order in this case, and the Court made an order on Coe to pay the sum of two shillings per week so long as the child should continue chargeable, not exceeding in the while seven years.

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