Note 249-3 — Chapter II

In Oldenburg, it is estimated that 48 per cent. of its illegitimate children are legitimatized per subsequens matrimonium (Rau-Hanssen Archiv. N. F., I, 7), in the agricultural districts of Nassau even 70 per cent. (Faucher's Vierteljahrsschrift, 1864, II, 19), in the whole of Bavaria, 15 per cent.; in the Palatinate, 29.7 per cent. (Hermann, Bewegung der Bevolkerung, 20); in the Kingdom of Saxony, 1865, at least 21 per cent. (Statist. Zeitschr. 1868, 184.) In France 10 per cent. of the marriages contracted legitimatize children. (Legoyt, Stat. Comp., 501); in Saxony, 1865, 11.7; in Bavaria up to 1852, about 1/8 of the marriages belonged to this category; 1858-61, 1/7; 1861-64, nearly 1/6. Compare Heft XII, of the official statistics. In the manufacturing towns of France, especially the border ones, a large number of the children of female operatives and of males having their domicile in foreign parts, are legitimatized[TN 85] by marriage: thus in Mühlhausen, 23.7 per cent. Recherches statist. sur M., 1843, 62.