Garrow's Law - Genealogy

[Siamese Girl]

I don't see any reason to think Sarah Dore was anything other than an "ordinary" girl from Darenth. In the C18th it wasn't unusual for rich men to live quite openly with their mistresses. Arthur Hill obviously accepted paternity as William  was given the surname Dorehill. I don't know who the other illegitimate children were who he acknowledged in his will, or who there mothers were, but I don't read anything more into the acknowledgement of the illegitimate children and their financial support than that he was "doing the right thing by them"

The real Arthur Hill sounds a very decent kind of man (according to the morals of the day) and his reputation is taking quite a battering by the TV series.

Carole

[Siamese Girl]

I've just had a further look at some of the Dorehills. The 1861 census has William John Dorehill an Army captain born Lambeth living with his wife Margaret who was born in Ireland c. 1826 as was one of their son George Dalton Dorehill born c. 1851.

The new LDS Beta Search has  a baptism of blank (male) Dorehill 18 July 1865 Clonmel Tipperary s/o William John Dorehill and Margaret Mitchell. I wonder if this story that Sarah was Irish has somehow got muddled up with this Irish connection?

Carole

[Valda]

Hi

I would have thought the belief in the Irish connection comes from Arthur Hill's Irish connections established in his family from the C17th onwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Downshire

Will of Arthur Marquis of Downshire and Earl of Hillsborough of Down, County Down 07 October 1801 PROB 11/1363


Sarah Dore was certainly literate as her signature shows on her marriage to William Garrow



Regards

Valda

[ReBoot60]

This BBC blog contains a couple of rsponses from Dorehill descendants

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/11/garrows-law.shtml

[toni*]

i have been very interested / intrigued with this and have been looking into William Garrows life just recently myself