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Buteshire / Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Monday 27 August 18 14:06 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find information on the following illegitimate children, born in Rothesay to my ancestor:
Margaret Pritchard, born on 28 May 1870.
And twins Jessie and Jeanie Pritchard born on 20 August 1872.
Their mother was Janet Pritchard, who was from Coatbridge (born 1836). No father can be found in the Kirk session minutes.
Margaret Pritchard was in the Rothesay Industrial School in 1881. She died in Rothesay in 1894.
Jessie Pritchard (by then known as Janet) was in a poorhouse in Glasgow 1891, for two months, but was fetched by her mother and taken back to Rothesay.
The twins later married. Jeanie married William Faulds, and Jessie/Janet married Thomas Hamilton
Family anecdotal information is that the father was an aristocrat, so perhaps that is why it is close to impossible to find any information. Or perhaps the old family story is not true.
Can anyone please advise me where else I can look for the name of the father of the three girls? I would really like to complete that circle for them on their behalf.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 17:25 GMT (UK)  »
Yes indeed, it does seem that way.
Maybe a widower was more prepared to marry an illegitimate girl, because his parents would probably have less influence.
I find it rather nice that the mother finally married James Mack. I hope he was good to her.
Thanks for your information.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 15:06 GMT (UK)  »
Yes indeed, it could be Jeanie Pritchard.
The marriage entry states that she married William Faulds, who was a widower, on 12 April 1895. Her mother's name is Janet Mack (M.S. Pritchard). I will see if I can verify this, but it seems right.
No father mentioned - which is not surprising.
Thanks again for your help.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 14:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Anne, I will check on those marriages. Perhaps the twins returned to Bute when they were older. Their mother did remain there, so it is possible.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 13:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you! Jeanie is the other twin.
Something is written in the left column of her birth notice, but I cannot decipher it. It does look like "Erasure in col six", but I am not sure.
I have found their mother: Janet Pritchard, born to George and Margaret Pritchard (M.S. Jenkins) in 1842.
Robert Pritchard, born in 1840, is her brother. So he clearly took the twins in and raised them since they are with him in the 1881 census.
Janet was still on Bute in 1881, working as a dairymaid on Ballochmartin Farm.
Thank you everyone for your help and advice.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 12:25 GMT (UK)  »
I have not been able to find any marriage to death certificates of either of the twins, because I don't have married surnames.
Strangely I have found the 1872 birth entry for one twin on Scotland's People (Jessie), but not the other twin (Janet). Yet they both survived, because they are recorded in the 1881 census as living in Lanarkshire with Robert Pritchard, who is my great-great-grandfather. He was not their father, but might have been an uncle (still checking that line).
Many years ago my great-aunt told me about illegitimate twins in the family history who were born on the Isle of Bute. According her their father was an Earl. Since the mother of the twins was a servant, that would not have been an unusual occurrence for those times.
I was researching someone else when the twins unexpectedly appeared in the 1881 census, and I remembered the old story about illegitimate twins born on Bute.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate children
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 01:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply.
They are indeed recorded in the 1881 census as the daughters of Robert and Mary Pritchard. But their birth certificates record the name of their mother as Janet Pritchard, who worked as a domestic servant. And no name for the father. They were born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
Perhaps they were informally or formally adopted and raised by relatives Robert and Mary Pritchard in Lanarkshire.

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Family History Beginners Board / Illegitimate children
« on: Monday 06 November 17 23:17 GMT (UK)  »
How to I find the name of the father in the case of illegitimate children?
I am searching for the father of twin girls born in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, in 1872. I have their names and the name of their mother. But the name of the father is not in the birth register.
Their names are Jessie and Janet Pritchard. And their mother is Janet Pritchard.

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