« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 13 July 11 15:32 BST (UK) »
Hi
Facing the same sort of problems you have encountered years ago when resources were not soo easily available I drew a large breath!
Remember when doing genealogy you move backwards.
Look at your family tree again and DO NOT PRESUME ANYTHING!
Ensure you have BMD certs for your parents and grandparents if ou haven't already. They are critical to laying a good foundation.
What is in common on these certs? FORENAMES? PLACES? DATES?
LOOK at Haffendon?Evendon ? Might that have been a dialectical difference or the "ear" of a particular vicar?? Were the family literate? Did the difference occur during a particular decade for example or while they lived in a particular spot?
When you have checked everything look again! (I have one ancestor who married twice - both women named Elizabeth, of the same age and for ages I just thought she had put the wrong village as her place of birth on the census!). Eventually I realised that folk didn't actually tell as many whoppers as we might assume it's just that we haven't picked up the clues!
Another example is of an illegitimate male birth in 1908 ie Cyril XXXX(2nd forename is father's surname) YYYY (mother's surname).
When Cyril joined the Army in 1922 he dropped his mother's surname YYYY and became Cyril XXXX and used that name at his 2 subsequent marrriages.
His children are all known as XXXX. Way back this was used to denote paternity where bastardy claims were made or the "wife" wished to establish a land or property claim.
Good luck
Dale
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