I have found newspaper reports (Hereford Times etc) that Caroline Dallow (sometimes Dalloway and mistakenly written as Holloway on Ancestry)
took an Edward James before Bromyard Petty sessions on 20th Dec 1862 charging him with neglecting to contribute to the support of their illegitimate child (my GGG grandfather George) Her witness was the local constable and it appears she was awarded 1 shilling 6d weekly.
Unfortunately, the petty sessions records which would have given me a possible age and address for this Edward James have not survived (according to Hereford archives) and there are no obvious candidates I can locate.
Caroline fell pregnant in 1861 and her son George Dallow was born in Thornbury Hereford 2nd Oct 1861- this is where Caroline's own mother Mary (re-married to a Thomas Vobe) was living in 1861 so may explain why the baby was born there.
What I can't find is where Caroline was in 1861-I was hoping that I might find an Edward James living in the same area .(The only one in Thornbury is a young child )but I can't locate her on the census.
In 1851 she was living in Sutton hamlet, Sutton, Tenbury as a servant aged 13. The rest of her family were living in Hampton Charles Herefordshire at this time. By 1865 she was married to James Mills in Bromyard. The family also briefly lived near Leominster and Leysters prior to 1861.
