Trying to sort through the information, a fair amount to process... but better more than none!
OH,has ANOTHER line, Greatgrandmother changed her name,Greatgrandparents never married.Greatgrandmother confessed to a daughter her real name.I spend a small fortune on Certs,but if need must !!!!!!!!!!!!! SO on Grandfathers Birth Cert his Mum gave a Fictious Name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Omega, was this in reference to something written on one of the Haffenden records you found? Or something you found in relation to your research? I love finding little amendments to census entry's, little clues that people must have felt strongly about ...such as putting down a false name!
Roy - I think that is probably a good idea, or he had started a new family with Elizabeth, wanted to make some room for his ne family and perhaps these two caused him a bit or agro! Although I'm trying not to tarnish someones character without good supporting evidence
Now I am home so I've been able to look at the documents I've got. I have the birth cert for Caroline (who it would seem is the only one who does not have dads surname as a middle name). I have just noticed that Sarah Ann was only 15 when she was born, so essentially she was a baby machine. I need to check who she might have been living with in 1873, if there is the possibility her father is not George (Snr).
I believe that George Haffenden remarried by 1894, but he started having more children shortly after Sarah Ann's death as I've found him and 'wife' Elizabeth in the 1891 census with a child of 3 and another of 1.
All of Sarah Ann's children (bar Caroline who is last seen 1891 in a reform school in Hampstead) moved to Bromley in Kent in time for the 1911 census.
Thanks for all your great finds, I couldn't wait to leave work to read them all properly and have a think!