My family tree on Ancestry is public, so please, if it helps, take a look. The tree name is MARTIN.
My maternal family tree is SO complicated, to say the least !
My maternal grandmother was Emily LINES.
She had an illegitimate child named Grace in 1896
She then met John Alfred JONES (my maternal grandfather).....his birth name was MARTIN the same as his mother as he was illegitimate, but his mother changed his name to Jones when he was 10 years old (maybe his birth father was Jones, who knows). John Alfred Jones had three daughters before meeting Emily, from a previous marriage, Daisy, Lilian and Rose.
John Alfred Jones and Emily never married (no trace of a marriage anywhere) but she took his name of Jones immediately. They went on to have about six children together, my mother being the youngest, born in 1912. John Alfred Jones died a year after my mum's birth, in 1913.
My grandmother then went on to marry (officially lol) William Joseph Deeley a year later, in 1914.
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Not relevant but just an "interesting" side snippet:
The extremely weird thing about all this is........my maternal grandfather's BIRTH name was John Alfred MARTIN, as Martin was his mother's and his grandparents family name.
My father's name, so my family name, was also MARTIN !!!!!!!!
So working on my family tree, I have SO many Martin on BOTH sides. I told you it was really weird !!!
Hope you could follow that ! ?
