Hi All
I've been on and off researching my family history for the last 10 years via ancestry and findmypast along with some other sites, however, I'm re hashing my tree and I am at the point where I have started to order certificates to confirm my research and I've hit my first problem with my starting family member, although I always knew she was going to be a tricky one.
My great Grandmother was an illegitimate child herself, who married pre 1920 had 3 children, then the marriage clearly broke down, she then had a 4th child my grandfather who was illegitimate himself and I believe her husband re married and had another child, my great grandmother then had a 5th child with another man who's own history is difficult to trace, she is noted on her 5th child's birth records as being the mother but the family have always been told she was adopted, her death certificate and 1939 register both show my great grandmothers last name to have changed to the same as the 5th child along with her new husband, however i can find no divorce records or 2nd marriage records?
Where do I start? I assume because of the date Divorce may have been hard to acquire, perhaps the shame of another illegitimate child was too much and she just took on the last name? Family whispers suggest that she was a lady of the night to help feed her children when she became a single mother?
