Her birth certificate does not name a father. Her mother is Mary Solman. Elizabeth Solman, her grandmother of Dacre Street, Lee, Kent, registers the birth (8 Oct 1840) and she is registered as Frances Hue. This would suggest that Frances was born out of wedlock and lived initially with her grandparent/s. A year later, in the 1941 census Frances appears as a single entry, aged 8 months, but, according to the original entry, living with the family Wenham in the same street as her grandmother.
Her mother, Mary Solman, appears in the 1841 census as working in Woolwich Dockyard as a servant, and also listed is her eventual step father, Philip Sayers, a Gunner with the Royal Horse Artillery. On 25 Mar 1849 Mary Solman marries Philip Sayers in Carlisle and from then until her marriage to David Thomas Fraser, Frances takes her step-father's name (Sayers) on the census.
However, on her marriage certificate her father is shown to be Lachorne (Zachome?) Hue, valet, deceased. Her marriage certificate records her maiden name as Hue but there is a further ceremony 18 Nov at the Register Office, as Frances' surname had been given "erroneously and inadvertantly" as HUE. Why would this have to be corrected?
Later, at the baptism of her daughter, Charlotte Emma, in 1866 she again records her name as Frances HUE Fraser. This would suggest that she was very aware that she was not a Sayers and wished to retain some link to her biological father.
I can find no other records for her father Lachorne Hue and would welcome any help in this search.
