| Description | Order to move at the Easter Sessions [1835] for an order in bastardy in the case of the township of Whashton (complainants) and John Kipling (defendant) in the matter of the bastard son of Mary Johnson singlewoman born on 25 December 1834. Grace Johnson and Mr Nelson the overseer will give corroborative evidence
Letter dated 13 April 1835 from John Kipling at Gilling to the chairman of Quarter Sessions acknowledging himself as father of the bastard son of Mary Johnson, but he has no money. He is a servant with his mother and has lost part of his left hand. He gets no wages, but gets his meat; his brother-in-law provides his clothes |