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« on: Monday 17 December 07 22:35 GMT (UK) »
Certificates have arrived and open up more questions than they solve.
Birth certificate of Charles Blakey: born at 7 half minutes past 4 o'clock on 15 Jan 1845 (therefore the younger twin); no father's name given; mother: Mary Blakey, Horsley Woodhouse.
I am guessing that this makes Charles illegitimate - two reasons: there is no father and Mary does not have a maiden name, only Blakey.
Marriage certificate of Charles Blakey and Elizabeth Mitchell: married on 7 Mar 1870; both full age and living at Horsley Woodhouse; he was a bachelor and a nail maker, his father was Charles Hurst?, a labourer; she was a spinster and fwk, her father was Zephariah Buon?, a coalminer. The witnesses were Hugh Blakey and Ann Wood.
Pincel: I do not think that it says Charles Hugh; the surname is normally given and Blakey is not there. Secondly the second name (Hugh/ Hurst) does not have any letters below the line, therefore cannot be Hugh. If they were illegitimate, it would make sense that they have their mother's name, not their father's.
It also looks like I have a problem with Elizabeth Mitchell, whose father's surname is not Mitchell, so may be she is illegitimate as well! I can find an Elizabeth Mitchell of the right age in Horsley Woodhouse on the 1851 and 1861 census's (Class: HO107; Piece: 2144; Folio 308, p. 9 and Class: RG9; Piece: 2508; Folio 99, p. 20) who is the daughter-in-law of Samuel and Elizabeth Wood (I assume that means step-daughter). They also have a daughter Ann Wood; she might be the witness.
The death certificate for Mary Blakey (1852 (A-M-J); Belper, Derbyshire; Vol. 7b; p. 251) states that she died on 15 May 1852 at Horsley Woodhouse, aged 38 years. She was the wife of William Blakey, labourer. The informant was a Sarah Ottewell. So it does not seem that this is the same Mary Blakey and I cannot find another who died between 1851 and 1861 in Horsley Woodhouse on Ancestry.
Any thoughts, anyone?
Chilibear.
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