« on: Wednesday 14 February 18 09:56 GMT (UK) »
I’m trying to help someone (initially looking for a marriage) on a local family history Facebook forum and have found a ‘strange’ birth certificate (i have been sent a copy!).
The child’s father is named and his occupation given but the mother’s surname doesn’t match, nor does it say formerly. The mother - with the same name - signed x as the informant.
Interestingly, the GRO has the birth with a dash under mother’s maiden name so i was surprised to see all the details on the certificate (I didn’t think the father’s details were included if they weren’t married). Unravelling a rather puzzling set up it now appears possible that the mother was married to someone else (not yet sure if widowed at time of 1865 birth) and it was that name on the certificate and not her maiden name. So should the child’s father have been included at all?
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....