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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Ronald McFarlane/McLean Bio-parents
« on: Sunday 07 April 19 11:19 BST (UK) »
Hello jorose,
He was baptised as RONALD MORGAN, but his child welfare files states his name as WILLIAM MORGAN. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PZC-Y5?i=131&cc=1468076
Weirdly the witnesses are the lady, who adopted him and her son from her first marriage. She then married JOHN MCFARLANE.
I have contacted St Mary's in Johannesburg and enquired if there was any baptisms around 1903 & 1905 with parents of the name Elizabeth/Lizzie & James/William Morgan. They unfortunately came back with a negative.
Also from the Child Welfare File, we know that ELIZABETH/LIZZIE was a cook for a Mrs McGregor in Parktown, Johannesburg but then went to MIDDLEBURGH.
He was baptised as RONALD MORGAN, but his child welfare files states his name as WILLIAM MORGAN. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PZC-Y5?i=131&cc=1468076
Weirdly the witnesses are the lady, who adopted him and her son from her first marriage. She then married JOHN MCFARLANE.
I have contacted St Mary's in Johannesburg and enquired if there was any baptisms around 1903 & 1905 with parents of the name Elizabeth/Lizzie & James/William Morgan. They unfortunately came back with a negative.
Also from the Child Welfare File, we know that ELIZABETH/LIZZIE was a cook for a Mrs McGregor in Parktown, Johannesburg but then went to MIDDLEBURGH.