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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 14:34 GMT (UK)  »
Yes telling the truth after all.

I can't find what happened to her husband though and also cannot find a baptism for her in the parish she says she was born in. There is a baptism in the parish. ....25 miles away....where she married for the first time.

That's probably a little lie for poor law reasons though.

So I've probably untangled her....apart from the demise of her first husband!

Thanks for your help everyone.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 13:46 GMT (UK)  »
Well, thank you for all of your thoughts so far.
Another update......

In 1818, 1820 and 1822 there are baptisms in the same parish. A father is named on the record and the mother would seem to be the lady I am researching.

Then there is the son I found who was base born in 1825.
Then there is another son born in 1828, also base born.

I widened my search and found a marriage in 1815 in a parish 25 miles away.

Absolutely cannot find a burial record for the dad named on the 1818,1820 and 1822 baptisms though!

The research is tricky as the surname is spelt differently on each record and so there could be anther variation which is meaning the result is not appearing.


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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 12:23 GMT (UK)  »
Just to update......found the images of both the child's baptism and mothers subsequent marriage and it was a different vicar at each ceremony.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 11:24 GMT (UK)  »
No I searched a wide window for a marriage to someone of that surname also for his death either side of the child's birth.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 10:19 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the link to the previous interesting thread Gadget  :)

Unfortunately dawnsh I didn't view an image of her son's baptism but found it on freereg as a transcription so I can compare with the image of her marriage. I will check later on another site if the image is available though. It may seem more credible if it is a different vicar.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 10:10 GMT (UK)  »
Yes 'tis indeed a mystery!

The only marriage for her is the one in 1829 and the same surname is used then as on her son's baptism and her own baptism...... if indeed it is her.

Then the 1841 census has her with her husband. daughter ...... and son with her previous surname.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 09:54 GMT (UK)  »
I didn't know that either. I thought baseborn meant the child of a single mother.

The baptism record gives the names of the mother but no fathers name so I assume in this case it means illegitimate.

In the process of untangling everything I found no marriage for the mother, either before or after her son was born.......apart from the marriage where she states she is a widow. I also found no burial for a previous husband with her son's surname. Then I found a baptism record for the mother which ties in nicely with subsequent censuses and her death record.

It really does look likely she lied when she stated she was a widow but I just wondered how likely this was.

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The Common Room / Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 09:11 GMT (UK)  »
I have been researching a particularly knotty branch of my tree and have come to the following conclusion but do not know how likely it is......

A woman was born in Norfolk in 1795 and in 1825 gave birth to an illegitimate son. The parish record states base born.

In 1829 the lady marries, in the same parish, and the parish record states that she is a widow.

Her husband is 13 years younger than her and they have a daughter together the following year.

I have researched using freereg, ancestry, findmypast and the genealogist and can come to no other conclusion but my question is.......

How likely is it that a lady would state she is a widow...when she clearly is not....and that the marriage would take place in the same Church as that of her illegitimate sons baptism?
Surely the priest would realise that she is not being truthful?



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Sussex / Re: Lewes Baptism
« on: Friday 25 January 19 09:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi sillgen, yes I found her in the the 1841 and have a great deal of info on her later life but wondered if anyone could find her baptism on SFHG maybe. Thanks for looking anyway.

The photo is fantastic isn't it. It's not mine and the tree I have is set to private as I am researching it all for a friend.

I found a book via Amazon which chronicles the life of her husband, so all very interesting.

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