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The Common Room / Illegitimate Roman Catholic Birth
« on: Saturday 06 November 10 15:26 GMT (UK) »
I have just discovered that my Grandma (Roman Catholic) was born illegitimately.
There is no fathers name on her birth certificate.
I have her mother's and what I though was her father's marriage certificate date 26th December 1898.
She was born 4th June 1898 a good 6 month before her 'parents' marriage.
Evidence on census records show she also had a brother 3 years older than her.
My question is this. How would her mother have been treated being a Roman Catholic and an unmarried mother of 2 children.
There is no fathers name on her birth certificate.
I have her mother's and what I though was her father's marriage certificate date 26th December 1898.
She was born 4th June 1898 a good 6 month before her 'parents' marriage.
Evidence on census records show she also had a brother 3 years older than her.
My question is this. How would her mother have been treated being a Roman Catholic and an unmarried mother of 2 children.