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The Lighter Side / Re: Birth Certificate Shock
« on: Monday 16 January 12 19:02 GMT (UK) »
My grandmother ,born in Ontario Canada in 1878, went by the name Emma Jane all her life. After her husband died she needed her birth certificate. When it came back it said her name was Francis Howell. Grandma and the rest of the family just assumed that her father had registered her in the name he wanted and then kept quiet about it. A few years ago I found her certificate on the internet. She at been registered by her grand father ,not her dad, by the name Emily Jane. In 1909 or 29 someone else from another province with her family surname sent in a name change to Francis Howell. I don't know who did it or were the other name came from as there is no Frances in the family. The Howell maybe the maiden name of her fathers mother.