Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations 1733 - 1766

by Tim Hitchcock and John Black

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0900952334
• ISBN13: 9780900952333
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lincoln Record Society
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.7"