Digital images, and transcriptions of account books, payments to paupers, clothing books, nursing books, pauper examinations, parish & vestry minutes, overseer's books, settlement certificates, bastardy examinations, removal orders, bastardy registers and other records relating to the poor.

Digital images, and transcriptions of account books, clothing books, workhouse inquest minute books, parish & vestry minutes, churchwardens' vouchers, applictions for poor relief, registers of poor infants and bastardy bonds.

Bastardy bonds give details on the nature of an illegitimate child's birth and usually name the child's father and his obligations to the child.

Records of over 14,000 illegitimate births, which will typically name the child's father.

An index to and images of books dealing with legal matters and administration in the county. They cover legal decisions, costs of prosecution, filiation and maintenance orders, settlement orders, removal orders, transportation orders, sentences passed on criminals, setting highway rates, appointing officials and presentments for repairs to roads and bridges, poor relief, settlement, licences for various trades and more.

Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.

Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.

A database containing abstract details of examinations of eligibility to reside in St Martin's parish and examinations of unmarried pregnant women.

Abstracts of 532 records of settlement, removal and bastardy recorded by the parish church.

Digital images of documents from civil divorce cases. The cases cover both the cause of the case and the outcome, such as division of property and visitation rights. These records also contain details of illegitimate children. Cases can be searched by a name index.