Hi bearkat. The extracts came from Scotlands People in Edinburgh.
I have this feeling that the parents weren't hitched, so, for reasons known only to themselves, may have 'legitimised' their kids by inventing a date and place as far south in England as they could, believing that in doing so, they would avoid the kids carrying the 'Illegitimate' stamp on their birth certificates.
I wonder if the keepers of records are supposed to cross check details of marriage when a child's birth is registered, particularly if the birth is in one country and the marriage in another.
Interesting, innit!
Thanks for confirming my check.
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Hi Cas, sorry for the delay in responding, but I've just come back from a trip up the Qld coast I have checked the military possibilities, but Mr Hannan was a brickie's labourer, and signed the birth certificates as they came along. Is there any way of checking the Dover marriage records around that time, just in case the surname spelling, (or even the date), was wrong? I now have four birth extracts with the 'Married October 15th, 1876, Dover' annotation, but no marriage record.
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You can search with a wild card ie. "A" (capital letters) and tick the "not sure" box and it will bring everything up with that date or year containing the letter "A" in the surname.