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I have been told the boys in this photo are my husband's great uncles, Arthur & Bernard Burroughs, however I don't think that is possible.  Arthur & Bernard were 7 & 3 respectively when they emigrated to Canada in 1906. They are older than that in this photo.
What I could find about the photographer (with help from other people on Rootschat), it seems he worked in the late 1880s, which doesn't jive.   

I'm hoping dating the photo may help solve this puzzle.  Many thanks!   

I have found ancestors in the Portsea Island Union Workhouse in the 1881 census.
The father Charles & 3 daughters- Eliza, Mary & Maude are all listed.

I contacted Portsmouth History center to see if there was any more information on the family. They replied that 4 girls -Alice, Eliza, Mary & Maude were all admitted by their father on 10 Sept 1880. Alice was discharged 18 Dec 1880, the other 3 were discharged 18 April 1881. Charles is actually not shown in the admission records that they have, but he is listed as a pauper on the 1881 census, so they feel he must have been living there at the time & his admission was perhaps lost? There is an admission for him 14 April 1892 & discharge 12 Aug 1892.

Alice & her mother Rachel are found living elsewhere on the 1881 census. The family is back together in 1891.

I am not familiar with all the rules of workhouses...
-Could Charles have been visiting his girls the night the 1881 census was taken?
-Would it have been common for a father & 3 girls to be in the workhouse, while the mother & another daughter are not?
-I assume you had to prove you were unable to provide for yourself & your family to be admitted?
-Could you just discharge yourself & your children when you wanted?

I know.. .lots of questions.  I'd be grateful for any insight into how workhouses were run. I've done some reading, but haven't found answers to these types of questions.

Thanks so much. Kellee

Hi all-

I'm not certain this is the correct place for this question...

background info (not using real names)- The family story is my grandmother 'Jenny Smith' became pregnant before she was married to 'John Alan'.  By the time my mother was born, they were married.

I received the birth certificate for her son. 1934 birth.  'Greg' was registered with given names- 'Greg Alan', father not listed, mother Jenny Smith.  ... so his name would have been Greg Alan Smith. I'm sure my grandmother gave him the middle name Alan, so he would have his father's name. For all his life, he was known as Greg with surname Alan. He never used a middle name.   

In the margins was a comment that he was adopted.

I requested his adoption certificate & received it today.

I was surprised to see that he was adopted by his mother, Jenny Smith! John had passed away in 1939. Jenny adopted Greg in 1947. The adoption order was made by the Juvenile Court Petty Sessional.

I have 2 questions...
1-why would Jenny adopt her own son? is this the only way she could legally change his name to Alan?

2-Jenny ended up traveling to Canada about a year later, with her daughter, but leaving Greg behind. I was watching a show "Ancestors in the Attic" & in one story there was mention that a son had to be left behind (can't remember what country) b/c he was adopted & adopted children weren't allowed to immigrate. Have you heard anything about that? Would that explain why she left her son in England?

Thanks for any insight you may have

Lee

I have a puzzle as are as my grandparents. It's looking like they never got married officially. I know that sometimes couples would just say they'd gotten married. However.... would they have to show ID to prove a name for documentation in 1938-1948?

-birth registration- My grandmother's surname is listed on my Mom's BC , in 1938) as "Kelly, formerly Corbett". Would she have had to prove that her name was Kelly?

-Passenger list from England to Canada in 1948.  My grandmother & my mother are both listed with the surname "Kelly", so presumably their passports would have been in "Kelly".  Would she have had to prove her name for passport or for passage to Canada?

I'm not sure if these documents indicate that they probably DID get married & to keep looking.

Thank you, Leslie

Hi, I'm looking for my relatives in Hungary.

My gr gr grandfather Peterne Kristof & his wife Barbara (nee Spisak) had 2 children in Hungary before they emmigrated to The USA, then Canada.
Peterne Kristof was born 29 June 1845 in Abauj-Torna.
Barbara Spisak was born Oct 1857
Son Julius John was born ~May 1876
Daughter Otilia born ~ 1882

Peterne had a brother Andras, born in 1851 in Abaujmegye, which I am told is the same as Abauj-Torna?
I believe there was also a brother Joseph born approx 1855 & a sister, Mary

Peterne left Hungary in 1883. He sent for his wife & children a few years later.

I would love to know the names of their parents & maybe their BD's... anything else that I might be able to discover.

Any help or ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kellee