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Hello,  When looking at birth records, i.e. those we can see on various ancestry sites, how would it show if an illegitimate child was first registered in the mother's name and then later changed to the father's or perhaps there was an adoption?   Expecting to find a mother's name only, using a free bmd site, I recently came across a child registered on the same page and line number with two different surnames and "C J"  after both names.  Could it be a "court judgement" allowing/forcing the biological father to accept his child?  Or, is it likely that two children of the same names, not popular ones, coincidentally were registered on the same page and both had "C J" included?  This was a late 20th century registration.  Thanks.  Anne

Mary Theresa POLIN married Frederick C HARRIS in Mar Qtr 1939.  Does anyone have this couple in their family tree, please?  I think, Mary was alone in Maidenhead in the 1939 Register and Frederick was working in the City of London.  Was this Frederick Charles HARRIS and did they both survive the war?    Thank you.

Hi,

Trying to trace Frederick Charles Harris, born Norfolk, England, 1912.    1939 Registration has him as a Hotel Waiter at the Great Eastern Hotel, City of London.  No identifiable trace of him from here on.    Service records have been tried without success.

The Great Eastern was bombed in 1941 – does anyone know of records of casualties or other details, such as staff records, which might help, please?

Anne

Hi,
I’m looking for the marriage of Thomas Locke and Sarah Ann Taylor.  Thomas was unmarried and a soldier in 1861 but may have left the army by 1871. Sarah Ann (nee Taylor, from other children records) was probably Roman Catholic and might have been born in Dublin or Nottingham.   Angelina died before 1877 when a second Angelina was christened.

The only marriage I can find is in 1857, before Angelina was born and when Sarah might have been 16/17.   From this, Angelina could not have been registered as Locke.

1871 Census: (part of family) 
Thomas Locke       Head         49 Aldbourne, Wiltshire.  born: c 1822
Sarah A Locke      Wife           31 Nottingham.              born:  c 1840
Angelina E Locke   Daughter   12 Nottingham.               born:  c 1859

Thanks,   Anne.

Hi, Mary Elizabeth Taylor was born/registered Jan-Mar 1868 in Basford, Nottingham and died in Basford within the same quarter.  Does anyone have access to the Basford parish records, to see if there is a note as to the circumstances, please?