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Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« on: Tuesday 21 July 20 17:26 BST (UK) »
Hi my 2nd gt grandmother was adopted by the aged of 2/3 yrs.  I am looking for any details off her birth certificate.  The details are:

Sarah Hannah Hamnett birth registered Jun qtr 1856 Runcorn RD
Volume 8a Page 214

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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 July 20 17:30 BST (UK) »
Welcome to RootsChat  :)

Your best bet might be to obtain her birth certificate - use GRO website - pdf copies are available for £7.50.  You will have register, but that is free.  You only pay for the certificate.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp

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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 21 July 20 18:07 BST (UK) »
There is a baptism on May 4th 1856 in Runcorn for Sarah Hannah 'Hamblett' - abode Cheadle.

Father James Woolley - Bricklayer.

Mother Hannah.

I wonder if that might be her? If so her father's surname was Woolley.

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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 July 20 12:00 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your replies!  I will look into the baptism record too  :)


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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 July 20 23:04 BST (UK) »
Might be worth looking at the 1861 marriage of Hannah Hamnett & James Whalley @ St Mary Bowdon

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3GT-MNN
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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 July 20 23:17 BST (UK) »
Looks like Hannah may have had another child.  1871 has her shown as Whalley aged 12 so born before marriage.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBXL-QY4

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26YY-TDB

No mothers maiden name shown on birth reg indicating she was illegitimate.  Entry on www.lancashirebmd.org.uk shows mmn Hamnett
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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 23 July 20 09:19 BST (UK) »
Great finds those, Carole.

So the James Woolley shown on Sarah Hannah's baptism record may have meant to be Whalley. (Alternativeley the Whalley at the marriage may have meant to be Woolley!)
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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 July 20 09:31 BST (UK) »
I wondered at the similarity in the surname as well. 

Looking at the 1851 for Cheshire there are a few single James Woolley's in the same age as Hannah so it's guesswork.  Be interesting to see if Ellen's birth cert has the same fathers name.
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Re: Birth lookup please! Sarah Hannah Hamnett
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 July 20 10:03 BST (UK) »
Carole -- initially I looked at that census also and was struck by the number of James Woolleys -- it's always possible the name has 'morphed' - especially if they moved into Lancashire, where Whalley is quite well known.

(Always irritates me when newscasters pronounce it as Waally!)
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