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« on: Tuesday 24 March 15 14:10 GMT (UK) »
I cannot read any of the marriage cert. now as it is a very old copy and has deteriorated by not being looked after very well in the meantime(!)
Is William the grandson of Elijah? Where is this documented?
I think there may be a mistake or even a direct lie concerning Eliza's gender!
Eliza turns up as a laundry maid living in St Mary's Shrewsbury having given birth to my Grandfather at the Atcham Union Workhouse, Berrington on 27th February 1887. No father was givenbut we have since found that it was a boy called William Kennedy who lived in Gateshead and was a market Gardener. Grandfather was christened at St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury and the baptysmal record added an 'e' to his surname.
I originally dismissed William and Sarah Ann as having made a mistake in the sex and name of their child as Elijah appears later and Eliza doesn't. But, the more I look at it I feel that the original birth certificate was correct after all and things went wrong later! This is what I am trying to work out.