« Reply #35 on: Thursday 09 April 20 02:33 BST (UK) »
BumbleB,
The image (1880) is from the register.
There is one other entry (1875) where he entered Registrars Banns but on that occasion crossed it out and put Superintendent Registrars Certificate.
Other later entries have Superintendent Registrars Certificate.
I've also noted he never missed a chance of putting "born out of wedlock" where he can!
Corryn
During my lifetime. I believe if the parents married within three years of the baby being born, then the baby was legally the child of the mother's husband. (work that out lol)
What jurisdiction? My youngest siblings were born 15 years after my parents married. I was born in 1947, my parents were married back in the 1930s... WWII separates my older siblings from the rest of us.
JM
I probably made a mistake when I stated "my lifetime". The occasion was early 1960s and my brother asked legal advice about his child who had been born out of wedlock when parents were under 21 years of age because parental consent for the parents to marry wasn't given. He thought he would have to officially adopt his own child when they married, but the advice he was given was that IF they (the parents) had married after the child was 3 years old, he would have to officially adopt his own child. At time of marriage (one day after father's 21st birthday) child wasn't two years old.
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