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suzard
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Here are a few reasons I can think of
It was not unusual for the mother of an illegit child to go out to work -maybe as a servant "living in" - while grandparents were looking after the child -and the mother would send money for her son's keep.
Sometimes the child would think Grandparents were parents -especially when others in the household called them Mum and Dad.
Maybe when Mum married the grandparents didn't want him to leave- or the child didn't want to leave.
There may be a much simpler explanation -remember the census only records who was at the premises on census night -the census being taken Sat/Sun - and grandchildren often went "in turn" to stay at grans on the weekend (as mine do now!) The child wouldn't be entered as "visitor" on the census -but grandson -as that was his relationship to the head of the house - they wouldn't enter "grandson on a visit"! If I have the correct family there was also another grandchild with the bridgwaters.
Whose child was mary Ellen Sedgwick ? She is age 6 on 1881 census yet Francis and Rachel didn't marry until 1877. Had francis been married before ? or was Mary Ellen really a Bridgwater too? I can't see Thomas being a problem to francis especially if Rachel was bringing up Francis' child or Francis had accepted Rachel's daughter???
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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It may be worth purchasing the marriage cert to see if francis was a widower when he married
The child could be Rachel's -it is not uncommon for a child to be entered as daughter/son of a stepparent -and entered in their name. If Thomas had been at home with Mum at the time of that census he could have been entered as Sedgwick
That's what makes research difficult sometimes
Suz
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Could possibly have been - it was not unusual
You have to remember the enumerator only wrote down what he was told as many people couldn't read or write.
So if he was just told the children's first names , the surname would be entered as the head of the house
Sometimes the child wouldn't know their surname was different.
One of my ancestors wasn't told until they married.
You really need to find out if francis had been married previously
Suz
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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