« Reply #44 on: Thursday 14 January 21 10:52 GMT (UK) »
Can there be false information given to registrars of birth records back in 1905? My thinking is that maybe the names of the parents could be falsified because of possible "scandal"? I am maybe overthinking this but the profession of Commercial Traveller and the fact that the father was found in London under the name Frank Herbert Pattinson on later records has me wondering why the secrecy. Also, my Grandfather being on a 1911 censor as a cousin living in the place he was born with neither parent there.
The thing was, if a woman professed to be married then it was her word & she could give whatever info. she wanted without question.
It was the mother who registered his birth i.e. anything written were her words although it looks like they were unmarried unless they married outside England/Wales.
The census is only 1 night in 10 yrs i.e. your g/father could have been staying overnight for just 1 night.
Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie
Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)
Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling
Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon
Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee
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