Hi, I don’t know if this is too late to be of any interest to anyone:
“On 11 May 1857 Frances (Fanny) baptised a daughter called Julia at Colehill Dorset.”
I found this at the British Newspaper Archive via FindMyPast:
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Dorset County Chronicle and Somersetshire Gazette 20 August 1857
Wimborne, Petty Sessions, Friday
Edward Cole, a railway porter, was summoned by a young woman named Fanny Derham, to show cause why he should not be adjudged the father of her illegitimate child. Mr Frederick Freeman appeared for complainant, and Mr Weston, of Dorchester, for defendant. The bench considered that complainant had made out her case, and issued an order for 1s 6d per week from the date of application, with costs.
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Edward Cole was my ggg-grandfather. He was born around 1831, I haven’t found him for certain in 1841, but in the 1851 census he stated his place of birth to be Colehill. He joined the Royal Marines in 1849 at the age of 17 but was invalided out (phthisis, acquired in the service) in 1853. On 14th August 1853 he married Eliza “Hind” [Hine] and said he was a Labourer.
On 5th April 1856 Eliza Cole, wife of Edward Cole, Porter on Railway, died of Phthisis. She was 24 and had been “ill some time” (from her death certificate).
On 11th May 1857 Fanny Derham christened Julia, so Edward really didn’t hang about very long after his wife’s death. The interesting thing is that at this point Edward was free to marry, but clearly didn’t.
Apart from the above, Edward is something of a mysterious figure as I can’t find a christening for him, or for his son, my gg-grandfather, also named Edward. I know from Edward sr’s marriage that his father was James Cole, but I can’t find any hard evidence to make him the child of James Cole and Ann Lovell who married in 1822.
Edward the railway porter is probably the man who married Charlotte Feacey 2nd May 1858 in Fordington, and died there in June 1860, being buried 11th June 1860. At this point presumably the payments to Fanny Derham stopped, if indeed he had been making them in the meantime.
I haven’t yet assimilated all the details in the posts above, but Fanny Derham seems to have led an interesting life!
By the way, I think the name of Julia’s Reformatory, as shown in the picture above, says "(Rescue Society London)".