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Lancashire / Re: Help finding a father’s name.
« on: Friday 05 June 20 11:56 BST (UK) »
Thanks everyone for your help! I am primarily interested in confirming Alice Ann Taylor’s father’s name. I suspect he is the Thomas Taylor who married Alice Ryder, but without a marriage certificate for Andrew Flynn and Alice Ann, I’m not as confident as I’d like to be. (There were some other Alice Taylors born about the right time fairly near to Liverpool. Years ago I ordered all those birth certificates.) I suspect that Andrew and Alice Ann didn’t marry.
Is it odd that she had her children baptised, but didn’t marry the father?
(Alice Ann died in 1905 from complications of childbirth. Her older son registered the death. Andrew put his younger children, including my grandfather, in a Catholic orphanage. He then drank himself to death. According to his death certificate he died in 1908 after falling down the stairs and fracturing his skull while intoxicated.)
Is it odd that she had her children baptised, but didn’t marry the father?
(Alice Ann died in 1905 from complications of childbirth. Her older son registered the death. Andrew put his younger children, including my grandfather, in a Catholic orphanage. He then drank himself to death. According to his death certificate he died in 1908 after falling down the stairs and fracturing his skull while intoxicated.)