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I'm sure this is probably a lost cause, but if anyone has any ideas on where to go next, I would gratefullly appreciate it.
I think i may have come to a deadend on one of my branches, unless anyone can give me an idea how to over come a missing fathers name on a birth certificate.
I am researching Ellen Annie Maria Hodges. Apparently she was unsure of her full name!
When she died on the 11th March 1943 known as Ellen Annie Maria Gore (Surname from 2nd Marriage) In Rainham Kent
When she gave birth to one of her daughters (Winifred Iris Baker) on the 31 Dec 1912 she was know as Annie Maria Baker formerly Hodges. In Bapchild Kent
When she married for the first time on the 11 July 1903 to Arthur Percy Baker she was known as Annie Maria Hodges (father's name left blank) in Chilham Kent
When she was born on 8th january 1883 as Ellen Annie, In Chislet Kent, to her mother Margaret Neaves Hodges. Fathers name left blank again. As far as I know her mother was not marriad to anyone at this time, divorced or widowed, and again as far as I know she was born Margaret Neaves to Thomas and Fanny Neaves. Although I do not have a certificate for this as yet. But they were recorded in the 1881 census, only a couple of years before Ellen's birth, living in Sturry all together.
From this I can only assume Margaret has added the fathers surname to her own name on Ellen's birth certificate, probably to escape the embarrassment of a 'Bastard Baby' I don't know.....
Please if anyone has any ideas on this, I would hate for this to be the end of my search, in not such the distant past.
I wait in hope!
Michaela
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Unfortunately the Sister Nellie Spillett and her husband Len Spillett are no longer alive.