Possible ancestry of Ellen Rebecca 'Paxton'

[Daltonator86]

Baptism at St Mary Paddington, 7 May 1848
Born 18 April 1848
Ellen Rebecca
Parents George + Harriet Paxton
Abode Salem Road Bayswater
Father a Wood sawyer

On ancestry, transcribed as Payton

I should discount ANY possibility that she was adopted?

[softly softly]

Are you aware that Harriet was a widow when she married William Paxon in 1848, she was previously married in 1840 to a William George.

John

[Daltonator86]

Are you aware that Harriet was a widow when she married William Paxon in 1848, she was previously married in 1840 to a William George.

John

I was indeed, unaware.

[softly softly]

Do you subscribe to Ancestry.

John

[Daltonator86]

Do you subscribe to Ancestry.

John

I used to... but not anymore

[rosie99]

Free access to ancestry  is available at a lot of libraries, depending on where you live.  I have also seen a really cheap subscription mentioned on here, sorry I cannot post the link at the moment.

This request has also been posted onrootschat using a different username, is that you.  I have posted a link to this post on it to save others spending time looking for what has already been found here

[brigidmac]

Her biological father was probably the first husband.
Adoption would not have been necessary if she was born after her mother's second marriage her father recorded on birth certificate would be the second husband but there would not be a DNA connection to the PAXTON side
Is that confirmed by your DNA matches .?

Ps If you changed your rootschat profile you can ask a moderator to delete or merge the duplicate post

[Dundee]

Her biological father was probably the first husband.

No he wasn't.  The second marriage was in 1843, a son was born in 1846 and then Ellen in 1848 and another son in 1850.

Debra 

[jorose]

Adoption was not formalised at the time - there was no legal process for it. Anyone could take a new name, as long as there was no intent to defraud. It occurred frequently among people of all social classes. Men married women with kids and raised those kids as their own. People took in the illegitimate children of their daughters and raised them as "son" rather than "grandson".

While wrong information could have been given on the birth certificate there would have been little motive to do so.

Her address, 22 Gloucester Gardens, at marriage - has this been investigated? The witnesses do not seem to be relatives.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-996G-PQ4C?i=340&cc=3734475

It also looks to me based on the timing of her first child that she was pregnant when she married, which could have been enough to cause a rift in the family.