Hi thank you everyone. Checked the Death Cert (78/60) registered 14 January 1960 at Perth, for Eveline Beatrice Graham nee Shackleton. She died 3 Jan 1960.
Definitely says 'Father Job H Shackleton Confectioner, Mother Harriet Lawson.
EB was married on the 12 December 1901 in Durham to Robert John Graham.
Children from the marriage Norman Hope (56), Gordon Malcolm (53), Alan Shackleton (49)
William H (45), Eveline Beatrice (35) [No mention of Mavis who died under 12 months and was apparently not registered.
Remember that Jane Ann hope shows on Norman and Gordon's BCs as the register of BDM in Sunderland. She is Job Shackletons wife who took over from her father William.
Harriet Lawson is apparently mentioned in one document as a household servant, although I can't find it. On the 1881 census EB is three and the servant is Mary Hevvers. I dont have the 1871 census.
There is a pencil note on the death Cert for Allan Shackleton Graham (I think by his oldest brother Norman Hope Graham), that his mother's (EB) mother was Harriet Lawson.
I agree that it is unlikely that Jane Ann Hope et al would have falsified the records particularly as she is the registrar. (Although as the cynics say who better to cover up her husbands indiscretion.) They may also have given EB their name to save Harriet embarrassment and to give EB a good home. Unless we can find some other evidence we will go back to Jane anne as mother as the dominant docs say that.
Thank you again.
Maxk
