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    I don't suppose that they married later?

    (Purely idle curiosity)

  2. #12
    thewideeyedowl
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    Indeed they did - on 1 January 1780. Please see this thread for the names behind the anonymised folk: https://www.british-genealogy.com/th...Ezard.-Meaning.

    Owl

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    Quote - "George found himself bound by a recognizance of £10 to appear again at the next Quarter Sessions and Jane's father was also issued with a recognizance"

    I don't think you were bound or were issued with a recognizance - you entered "voluntarily".
    "dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"

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    thewideeyedowl
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    Default How to use the word 'recognizance'

    OK - thanks again! Must admit that I am still struggling a little with exactly how the word could be used in a sentence (as evidenced by the quote in the post above). Is there any guidance on that? As 'recognizance' is like 'bail', does it behave the same way grammatically? Suggestions and queries below:

    'on recognizance' (?), as in 'on bail' (But is it possible to say 'on a/the rcognizance'?)
    'stand recognizance for...' (?), as in 'stand bail for...' If it refers to a person; but if to an amount possibly: 'stand recognizance of £10'(??)
    'answer recognizance' (?), as in 'answer bail' (?)
    'recognizanced to..' (?), as in 'bailed to..' (?)

    And just so that we can all get a very full picture of the word 'recognizance' - () - here is the entry for it in SOED, reset/revised 1980 from the 1973 edition:



    And, very very finally, here are some sources for info/background if you are researching a Bastardy Bond/Recognizance or suchlike:

    https://alanmacfarlane.com/TEXTS/bastardy.pdf (That is his 2002 article "Illegitimacy and illegitimates in English history" in a revised edition of a 1980 book); AM is an historian and anthropologist.

    Family Search has a Wiki page on this, which can be a good starting point: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/...acy_in_England.

    And some of the info in this one made me smile: https://www.madaboutgenealogy.com/ill...acy-documents/. (I loved the 'what she would have said/what he would have said'.)

    Owl

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