While tracking some distant relations on a census, I discovered that the relationship of one of the children to the head of the household was "love child".
The child in question was born on 18 Jan 1903 and registered with his mother's maiden surname and no inclusion of the father's surname as an additional christian name. The couple were married later that same year. In the census the boy has the surname he was registered by as his surname but now his middle name is the surname of his mother's husband. By the time the boy marries he is using the surname of his mother's husband and has dropped his original one, also when his death is registered.
So if the mother's husband is his natural father, why not list him as son on the census even though born before they married. Alternatively if not natural father, wouldn't he be listed as step son (as if the mother had been married before and he was the child of her previous husband).?
