Genealogy Chat

I searched the War Graves site but no luck on the husband.

Kerry Google CWCG and you will find it / stands for Commonwealth Graves Commission and is searchable by WW1 and WW2 then by name. Shirley

I am willing to look but don't know the address for the War Graves commission.

Have you looked for the 1st husband on the Commonwealth War Graves site....there are civilians on there too. Gwyn

You need to eliminate them one by one from the possible marriage matches. Using your list look for a child's birth registration in the correct quarter for each man's surname in turn, with the correct mother's maiden name. Gwyn

I have no idea who the father is. It is possible the first husband was killed. He was a police constable in war time London.

Kerry if you want to send me the names in a PM I will take a look for you. Georgina.

Did the child's parents marry and he was registered in the birth father's name? Have you looked for another marriage of the child's mother, after his birth? Gwyn

I have searched marriages between the the birth date and the re-registration date and found several with the same first name & middle initial and the her married surname but have no idea which could possibly be the right one.

...I think our postings crossed. If she was a married woman and her husband was the child's father, I think he would have been shown on the birth certificate. I would suspect that the child was not her husband's but that the 2 natural parents later married and re registered the child. Gwyn

Kerry it might be worth looking for a marriage for the mother between the 1946 birth & the 1948 re-registration, the usual thing that happens under the Legitimacy Act is if a child is born Illigitimate & then the parents marry the child can be re-registered as legitimate. I hope this makes sense? Georgina.

Does this act apply only to illegitimate children or does it apply to those who actually were legitimate but whose father was not present at the registration of birth? Should I assume that the mother married the father before May 1948 but after the birth of the child in 1946 or could the father actually have been her husband?

I searched the June Qtr 1948 but there were none with the correct maiden name & I think that perhaps they changed his forenames as well as his surname. I have no idea where to go now. I am open to any suggestions.

I have received the birth cert (year of birth 1946) for the son of my father's half-sister and even though she was married in 1941 it does not show any father on the cert. A notation on the side says - Re-registered under the Legitimacy Act 1926, on 24 May 1948. I am stumped as to where to search now.