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Birth certificate details
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Victoria | Report | 3 Apr 2010 21:38 |
I wonder if anyone can offer me a suggestion as to why my g g grandmother is recorded as married on the 1861 and 1871 census but on my g grandfather and his brothers have a blank space where there father's name should be? Their mother has registered the birth and is giving her 'married' name plus her maiden name. She is head of the family on both census records but I am unable to find her on 51 or 41 census. There is no husband at the address on the night of the censuses. However. on my g great grandfather's marriage certificate his father is named and his profession given. |
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Kate | Report | 3 Apr 2010 22:02 |
Perhaps they were illegitimate and she claimed to be married on the census to look more respectable? That might also be why a "father" was named on your great-great grandfather's marriage certificate - so that he looked more respectable to his new in-laws. |
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Kay???? | Report | 3 Apr 2010 22:03 |
Hi Victoria, |
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Madmeg | Report | 3 Apr 2010 22:03 |
I assume you are meaning their is no father named on your g grandfather or his brothers birth certs. Is that right? There is no record of a person's father on the census records. Please advise on what you meant. |
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Victoria | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:21 |
Hi |
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brummiejan | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:27 |
No idea if this might help - note there are lots of other names on the entry which i have deleted: |
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Researching: |
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KathleenBell | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:33 |
I have looked at the 1861 census. Have you got the birth certificate for the older son who was born in Scotland to see if his father is named? Perhaps she left her husband in Scotland and had the other three children with someone else in Co. Durham ??? |
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KathleenBell | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:40 |
If a married woman registers the birth of illegitimate children and does not give the name of the father then she has to register them using the name she has at that time - i.e. her married name - even if her husband is not the father. She also has to give her maiden name - which she has done in your case. |
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Mhairi Queen of Scots | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:41 |
Sadly general registration did not start in Scotland till 1855, compaired to 1837 in England, so there wont be a cert I'm afraid. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:47 |
Oh yes - I'd forgotten that Mhairi. That's a shame. |
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Mhairi Queen of Scots | Report | 4 Apr 2010 22:56 |
It is :( |
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Victoria | Report | 5 Apr 2010 08:59 |
Thanks for all the suggestions, I haven't been able to find records for George Thomas born in Scotland but hadn't realised their records were different. Also, thanks brummiejean, I did consider that record myself so have sent off for a copy. I wondered if perhaps George Gibson was George Joseph or Joseph George, especially as I think George Thomas may appear later on as Thomas. |