Bastardy Orders
| Bastardy examinations orders | |||||||||||
| Father | Mother | Reference | type | ||||||||
| Date | surname | first name | place | occupation | surname | first name | place | occupation | other info | ||
| 30 Oct 1607 | Vile | John | South Harp | husbandman son of William | Luckocke | Elenor | Q/SR/2/22 | examination | |||
| 26 Jun 1608 | Vile | John | South Petherton | husbandman son of William | Luckocke | Elinor | East Lambrook, Kingsbury | spinster | Q/SR/3/132-3 | order | |
| 28 Aug 1611 | Newcombe | William | Norton sub Hamdon | yeoman | Lavor | Rebecca | South Petherton | Q/SR/11/7-8 | order | ||
| 8 Jan 1610/11 | Stuckey | John | Compton Durville, South Petherton | husbandman | Moore | Mary | Compton Durville, South Petherton | Q/SR/11/48-9 | order | ||
| 8 Jan 1610/11 | Rippett | Silvester | Martock | husbandman | Boodye | Agnes | South Petherton | Q/SR/11/50-1 | order | ||
| 12 May 1616 | Baker | Thomas | South Petherton | Anstye | Mary | South Petherton | carnal knowledge of her body in the baker’s house | Q/SR/26/70-1 | examination | ||
| 11 Jan 1618/9 | Wrench | William | Austin | Marie | South Petherton | Q/SR/32/223 | order | ||||
| 20 Apr 1621 | Mark | Andrew | South Petherton | Gregge | Johane | South Petherton | spinster | Peter Gregge, base child | Q/SR/37/38 | order | |
| 20 Aug 1621 | Sacer | John | Ilminster | Hutchins | Dorothy | South Petherton | spinster | base female child | Q/SR/39/52 | order | |
| 25 Aug 1621 | Ellys alias Literett | John | South Petherton | shoemaker | Edmonds alias Palmer | South Petherton | spinster | base female child | Q/SR/39/54 | order | |
| 25 Aug 1621 | Podger | Lawrence | Midney | yeoman | Hollond | Alice | South Petherton | spinster | base female child | Q/SR/39/56 | order |
| 15 Oct 1625 | Ridout | John | South Petherton | labourer | Hillary | Edith | Shepton Beauchamp | spinster | Q/SR/56/112 | order | |
| 12 Oct 1653 | Russell | Robert | South Petherton | husbandman | Hebditch | Mary | South Petherton | single woman | carnal knowledge of her body in her master’s kitchen | Q/SR/86/58 | examination |
| 19 Oct 1655 | Eliott | William | South Petherton | husbandman | Clay | Frances | Barrington | spinster | carnal knowledge of her body in the parsonage barn at South Petherton | Q/SR/91/75 | examination |
| 22 Sep 1655 | Bartlett | John | Drayton | reputed father of base female child | Cooke | Mary | South Petherton | widow | carnal knowledge of her body in the house of John Clarke of South Petherton | Q/SR/91/76 | examination |
| 27 Sep 1655 | Bartlett | John | Drayton | carpenter | Cooke | Marye | South Petherton | widow | female child | Q/SR/92/24 | order |
| 27 Oct 1656 | Sturton | Thomas | South Petherton | the younger, brazier | Vile | Mary | South Petherton | single woman | carnal knowledge of her body in a field near Lower Stratton | Q/SR/93/5 | examination |
| 13 Jan 1656/7 | Sturton | Thomas | South Petherton | brazier | Vile | Mary | South Petherton | single woman | Q/SR/95/10 | order | |
| 15 Apr 1657 | Quinn | Thomas | Seavington St Mary | Barrett | Mary | late of South Petherton | Q/SR/95/218 | examination | |||
| 27 Sep 1658 | Weare | Robert | Flint | Justine | South Petherton | spinster | carnal knowledge of her body in the stable of Edmond Clarke at South Petherton | examination | |||
| 16 Jan 1659 | Vile | Thomas | Seavington St Mary | the younger, husbandman | Barrett | Marge | South Petherton | single woman | carnal knowledege of her body in the house of John Dunne of Seavington St Mary | Q/SR/96/81 | examination |
| 19 Jun1669 | Patch | Richard | Higher Stratton | Chaffey | Joane | Curry Rivel | Q/SR/112/89-90 | examination | |||
| 24 Sep 1677 | Dyer | John | South Petherton | Vile | Edith | South Petherton | carnal knowledge of her body in her mother’s house | Q/SR/135/4 | examination | ||
| 19 Jul 1683 | Clark | Joshua | South Petherton | husbandman | Younge | Ursula | South Petherton | single woman | base female child | Q/SR/155/2 | examination |
| 28 Apr 1752 | Weare | Robert | South Petherton | mason | Harding | Mary | South Petherton | single woman | son William | Q/SR/320/3/62 | examination |
| 30 Oct 1833 | Edmonds | John Baker | Woolverton, Dorset | the younger, gentleman (born in 1792 in South Petherton) | Vile | Mary | South Petherton | daugher Jane Vile born c 1816 | |||