Pages: 1 2 [3]

Author Topic: Unregistered birth  (Read 3820 times)

Offline bevo

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 144
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #18 on: Monday 10 October 11 08:45 BST (UK) »

Perhaps Edward went with his mother and then returned to England.

Familysearch seem to have his mother's marriage in Boston, MA 1870,
 to a William Johnstone

Bevo

Offline GCE

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 200
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #19 on: Monday 10 October 11 08:51 BST (UK) »
Yes that's right! but how do I check whether he went to America with her?

Offline bevo

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 144
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #20 on: Monday 10 October 11 09:20 BST (UK) »

If you have access to Ancestry, you could see if he turns up in the UK arrivals records-

Offline GCE

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 200
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #21 on: Monday 10 October 11 09:21 BST (UK) »
will do - thanks!

Offline GCE

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 200
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #22 on: Monday 10 October 11 09:42 BST (UK) »
have looked - unfortunately records do not start until 1879 and he was definitely in England in August 1869 as he marries and he was definitely here in 1868 as he got his future wife pregnant as the baby was born in the same month as they married. he also has a trade - firstly as a machinist, then an engineer and turner and finally a gun maker! So would possibly have trained in these areas as a teenager!

GCE

Offline GCE

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 200
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Unregistered birth
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 12 October 11 15:40 BST (UK) »
I think if he was in America with his mother he may have been sent back before the civil war and also his Mum re marries in 1870 and makes herself several years younger so would  not have wanted a son of an age that would point to her correct age!!

GCE
Pages: 1 2 [3]