My partners mum has died and we needed to get a birth certificate for her, so we went on to get the reference code and we looked her up and found on the page her mother maiden name is different. She was born Lilian L Mcintyre in 1947 and it says mother maiden name is Campbell. Then there is a * next to it and at the bottom the *say the grandmothers surname (she had 2 surnames moreton and ranaldi - due to a name change in the war to get work she hid her Italian name apparently)
Now no one knew who this campbell was until this weekend when we seen the marriage cert of her dad joseph to lavnia and it said he was divorced to a mary campbell. Shocking so there is the campbell name.
What we dont know is when they got divorced.
So Lilian Lavinia was born 1947 and then re-registered in 1948. Her dad remarried in 1951 to a Lavinia Moreton/Ranaldi.
What we cant work out is why she would have birth mum maiden name as Campbell - was she then adopted by Lavinia Moreton/Ranaldi? But whats more strange is why has she got her mothers name Lilian lavinia if her dad did have her with campbell. He obviously knew this lavinia at the time of lilians birth to call her lilian lavinia. It cant be coinicidence that you would know these names that makes me think she definately was lavninas daughter.
As Lavinia moreton was italian i am guessing she was the Catholic, (we dont know if the father was) but lilian was raised a catholic too.
Nothing makes sense, could it just be he named the ex wife campbell by mistake and they had to change it? Did he have an affair with lavinia which ended the marriage to mary?
Can anyone shed any light of what happened here?