Bastardy records

[evenia3]

Hi everyone, my dad William McCarthy born July 1929 illegitimate in the Marylebone Workhouse would his mum have  named the father on the Bastardy records.

[jim1]

Hello & welcome
Yes the father's name would have to be included in any Illegitimacy Order.
He would in the 1st. instance have the right to contest the order so would have to be notified.
If he didn't attend/contest the order the mother would in all likelihood be granted the order for financial support. He then would have to be found.

[evenia3]

Thank you for your reply and it looks like the bastardy records are only for 19th century

[jim1]

They may be subject to the 100 year closure rule.

[stanmapstone]

Thank you for your reply and it looks like the bastardy records are only for 19th century

 The Bastardy Act, 1923 The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth (or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support or ceased to reside in England within 12 months after the birth), and the justices, after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father of the child, and order him to pay a sum not exceeding 20 shillings a week for its maintenance
See http://gluedideas.com/Encyclopedia-Britannica-Volume-01-A-Anno/Affiliation.html
Some cases are reported in the local papers.
Stan

[Bookbox]

Thank you for your reply and it looks like the bastardy records are only for 19th century

Not so. Any details of court affiliation orders that survive for Marylebone for 1929-1930 will be at London Metropolitan Archives, recorded (along with all the other kinds of cases heard at the petty sessions) in the court registers in series PS/MAR/A.

Link to the online catalogue here ...
http://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/PS_MAR.PDF

The records themselves are not online, so if you want them searched you will need to have research done at LMA, either by their own research service or by an independent researcher. There are at least a dozen volumes to look through.

For 1929-1930 the court records are accessible -- they are not closed under any 100-year rule.

You might be lucky but, realistically, relatively few affiliation orders were taken out when compared with the number of illegitimate births.