Looking for a birth

[chacha]

Can anyone please help or point me in the right direction, I have had searchers help me with my great grandmother on here before but I have come to a dead end and am lost, whaqt I want help with is how cane I find and get a birth certificate for my great grandmother her name is Elizabeth Geoghegan DOB 1854 Guernsey her father's name is John Geoghegan, I have been in touch with the FHS and other officies on Guernsey but they all tell me that there is no record of her at all I have gone through all the census and can on trace her back to 1881 and I have found her at the Queen Charlotte Hospital Middlesex when she gave birth to her base born daughter in 1877 but before that there is nothing can you help I have been trying to trace her birth and get a certificate for around two years.
Thank you
chacha.

[Milliepede]

Whereabouts is she in 1881 please?

I can see an Elizabeth Geoghegan in Kensington Workhouse * in 1871 but her birthplace is Ireland and she is 21.

Name is quite distinctive so I wonder if she didn't actually come from Guernsey especially if no record of her birth there.

* just caught sight of the name underneath another Geoghegan.  Transcribed as Mart Wm 5 months born in Kensington workhouse 
It's Matthew William.

[chacha]

milliepede,
thank you for searching but what I wanted to know was how to find someone on Guernsey when there is no record of that person when on all of their documents it states that that's where they were born,all I can think of is that my great grandmother lied to hide something up.
chacha

[Milliepede]

Sorry I don't have the answer to that   

Just for info where is your Elizabeth in 1881 please?  You said traced her back to 1881 and the birth of her daughter 1877. 

Using a different tack is there a record of her father I wonder?  We have his name John.  Does he appear in Guernsey on a census perhaps - will have a look. 

Most of the entries with that surname do seem to be Irish.

[Milliepede]

Probably a red herring but there's a John Hewitt G with wife Susannah in Middlesex in 1851.  His birthplace says "in the army" which isn't very helpful but he could have had children in different areas (clutching at straws now!)

Can't see one in Guernsey.  Really do have to wonder if she was born there despite her thinking she was. 

[KGarrad]

See previous posts:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=633142.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=509073.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=562377.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=510801.

[Milliepede]

Thank you that helps 

So she claims to be a widow in 1881 but maybe that was just for appearances seeing as she had a young daughter.  Can't find the entry on either site so all credit to whoever found it!

There is a William Geoghegan/Elizabeth Kenny marriage but that's in W.Derby 1875. 
Her father is Jacobi.  I don't think that's anything to do with this case.  It's all Irish to me.

[Milliepede]

Found it 

Surname spelt with an r Groghegan.

And I looked up Guernsey parishes and there is one called St Sampson which is what appears to be written in 1881.

St Sampson has one of the oldest parish churches so they must have records, she could be hiding in those. 

[jennywren001]

Bit of a coincidence but on the 61 census:
GEOGHAGAN, John 31 Mason's Labourer showing with the rest of the family including 'Eliza' daughter age 7..
Jen