rjknott
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All events are in Cumberland, but Cumberland is not relevant to this particular question.
There is another post about Sarah, but it is about a separate issue:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,293522.0.html
I have found four children born illegitimately to a Sarah Mingin(g)s:
28 May 1820 Nanny Mingings bap Great Orton (Ann aged 20-24 in 1851; 30 in 1851; 42 in 1861)
dau Sarah Mingings of Baldwinholme
4 Mar 1821 William Mingings bap St Mary, Carlisle (not found later; not the Wm s Mary in 1841 census)
21 Feb 1827 Sarah bap Raughton Head dau Sarah Minges and Alexander Kirk
8 Nov 1829 Lanty Mingings bap Thursby (Lancelot was aged 15-19 in 1841; younger in later censuses)
son Sarah Mingings, singlewoman, of How End (ie Thursby)
I have also found three bastardy recognizances:
Nov 1817 Sarah Mingings of Baldwinholme names Lancelot Bird as father
Nov 1820 Sarah Mingings of Orton names William Hetherington as father
Nov 1826 Sarah Mingings of Cummersdale names Alexander Kirk as father
Sarah married Alexander Kirk in Gretna Green and then, when he was killed by a cart overturning, married John Gibson. She may, therefore, have had children by five different fathers. She inherited some money from a rich uncle in 1828; but she was clearly attractive to men before that if they are all the same person!
There appears to have been only one Sarah Mingings (b 1796 Orton), whose mother died in 1798, after which her father remarried and moved from Great Orton to Baldwinholme (in the same parish).
The bastardy recognizances name the father before the birth, during the last three months of pregnancy. Am I safe in assuming that Lancelot has been named as Nanny/Ann's father? My concern is the baptism of Lanty in 1829. Is it just a co-incidence that Lanty (ie Lancelot) has the same name as the named father over ten years earlier? And why, in 1829, is Sarah named as a singlewoman? She may have been single when Lanty was born, but she was definitely married by his christening. Perhaps there were two Sarahs...
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