Illegitimate Births, 1759-1834
New Castle County, Delaware, Court Records Docket containing records of illegitimate births 1759-1834 compiled by Rita Schive Mowrer, C.G.R.S.
Child’s Mother | Male Charged | Birth Information |
Peggy Pierce, of Christiana Hd., single woman | Robert Anderson | child b. 9/12/1807 at the home of Joseph Pierce |
Mary Tremble, of Christiana Hd., single woman | Nathaniel Baldwin | child b. 11/30/1801 at the home of her father, Joseph Tremble |
Mary Thompson, of Mill Creek Hd.,single woman | John Beaty, of MIll Creek Hd. | Beaty ordered on 12/19/180, to pay for lying in expenses |
Hannah Johnson, of Christiana Hd., single yellow woman | William Beckett, a black man | female child b. July 1807 at home of Jacob Shreve |
Elizabeth Nicholson, single woman | Eli Biddle, of Red Lyon Hd. | female child b. 7/1/1819 |
Sarah McDaniel of Appoquinmunk Hd. | Aaron Biggs, of Appoq. Hd. | male child b. 12/31/1803, at home of Thomas Clark |
Mary Duphain, of Pencader Hd. | William Bunker, of Pencader Hd. | Bunker ordered to pay mainteneance for child, to start on 8/4/1802 |
Hanna Donahue | Thomas Caldwell, of Newport, Chr. Hd. | child b. 9/9/1809 |
Mary Tremble, of Christiana Hd., single woman | Samuel Campbell | Campbell charged with maintenance of male child, b. 4/1809, at home of Joseph Tremble |
Mary Eaton, of White Clay Hd., single woman | Eaton Crawford | male child, b. 12/10/1809, at home of Rebecca Reynolds |
Jane Cully | John Dawson | female child, b. 6/21/1817 |
Mary Brooks, of St. Georges Hd. | Adam Diehl, of St. Georges Hd. | male child, b. 5/17/1803 |
Kitty Shay | Edward Duff | Duff charged with maintenance for child on 2/27/1819 |
Elanor Grifin, of Appoquinmink Hd., single woman | William Foard, of Kent county | female child, b. 9/22/1799 |
Rebecca Dennis, of Wilmington | John Friel | female child, b. 8/10/1808 |
Rachel McConnell, of Christiana Hd, single woman | James Hamilton, of White clay Creek, gentleman farmer | child b. 12/27/1812, at her father’s home |
Sarah Phillip | Thomas W. Hiltzheimer, White Clay Creek | female child, paternity ack. 8/30/1808 |
Sarah Cather, single woman | James Huston, weaver, of Christiana Hd. | male child, b. 12/16/1804, in Christiana Hd. |
Rhoda, single woman, no last name given | Michael Kain | male child, Kain charged on 6/16/1809 with maintenance |
Polly Campbell | James Kelly, of Wilmington | female child, b. 7/6/1808 |
Peggy Washington, free black woman | Samuel Jordan, of Brandywine Hd. Child’s father is Jeremiah Williams,a servant to Jordan | child b. 3/4/1808. Jordan charged with maintenance |
Hannah Cullen, single woman | James M’Calla | female child, b. 9/8/1778, at Red Lyon Hd. |
Jemima Griffin | William McCartney | McCartney charged on 11/4/1816 as father of Griffin’s unborn child |
Hannah Quandrill, of White Clay Creek, single woman | Thomas McEntire | McEntire charged on 10/17/1801 with Lying In expenses for his female child |
Mary Waggoner, of Appoquinmink Hd, single woman | Alexander McFarland | Male child, b. 5/26/1803, at home of William Waggoner |
Mary Fox, single woman | Francis McGurgan | child b. 11/25/1809 |
Mary Rumsey | Robert Morrison | Morrison charged on 11/25/1803, for support of Rumsey’s unborn child |
Mary Matthews, of Christiana Hd | Thomas Morrison | male child, b. 3/15/1810, at home of John Mulloy |
Charlotta Armstrong, of Christiana Hd, single woman | John Neece | male child, b. 8/4/1801, at home of John Armstrong |
Sarah Vansant | John Pearce, of Cecil Co., MD | female child, b. 11/27/1798, at home of Samuel Freman in St. Georges Hd. |
Elizabeth Roberts, of St. Georges Hd., single woman | William Perrey | female child, b. 5/26/1801 |
Susan Woodward, of Christiana Hd., single woman | James Phillips | child b. 3/13/1809, at home of Mary Hendrickson |
Sarah Hains, of Christiana Hd., single woman | Jacob Peirson | female child, b. 6/14/1806, at home of John Flinn |
Mary Pennyale | Reuben Primrose | Primrose chraged, on 6/5/1819, with maintenance |
Margaret Nuson, of Christiana Hd., single woman | Alexander Reynolds | male child, b. 3/14/1801, at home of Robert Rowan |
Phebe Seville | Eli Sennecks | child b. 3/1/1820 |
Prudence Gull, of Appoquinmink Hd, single woman | William Shaddock, of App. Hd. | female child, b. 11/19/1800 |
Rebecca Phillips | Jacob Smith | female child, b. 6/30/1816 |
Susannah Hollands, of Newcastle Hd | William Smith, of Wilmington, attorney at law | Hollands charged on 12/29/1759, that Smith is the father of her unborn child |
Margaret Smith, of Brandywine Hd | Joel Spencer | female child, b. 9/22/1817 |
Elizabeth Evans, single woman | Ephraim Underwood | female child, b. 6/21/1818 |
Hannah Barns, of St Georges Hd, single woman | William Vance, of Port Penn, carpenter | male child, b. 1802, at home of John Cleaver |
Nancy Taylor, of St Goerges Hd, single woman | Abraham Vicars, farmer | male child, b. 3/6/1801 |
Mary Carson | Aquila Walraven | male child, b. 5/29/1807, at home of John Sperry in Wilmington |
Sarah Barns | Isaac Walraven | Walraven charged on 8/26/1815 to appear within 1 month of birth of Barns’ unborn child |
Dinah Newlin, of Christiana Hd, single woman | Samuel Wilson | male child, b. 2/5/1812, at home of Eli Baldwin |