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Offline LizzieL

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Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 03 December 23 14:13 GMT (UK) »
Ah yes, found the marriage, she probably didn't know it was her mother because by that time she had been given her adoptive parents' surname. The other witness has an interesting name!
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 03 December 23 14:18 GMT (UK) »
That marriage certificate find was pretty amazing. Still no idea about the father though. I have a feeling his name was Alexander and Annie Alexandra is named after him and her sister in law Annie - the one she stayed with to give birth. He probably was a soldier. No idea where else to go apart from DNA - but even that is going to be hard!!

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Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 03 December 23 14:40 GMT (UK) »
The information you said earlier about Alexander being a private in the royal horse guards seems quite precise, if a father is invented, descriptions are usually more general.
If Annie was born in early June, she would have been conceived September 1902, possibly Alexander was already a soldier in 1901. Wellington Barracks comes to mind, location close to the baptism place, but not birth place.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 03 December 23 16:03 GMT (UK) »
Officially, for an illegitimate birth at that time, the father would have to accompany the mother to have both names on the certificate (at least in England and Wales).

Not just accompany - he also had to sign as a "joint informant",

Who was the informant in this case? The mother?

Always the most important question !

If the mother was the single informant and the father is named on the entry then you  know that she was married (or at least claiming to be)......she wouldn't have to prove it though (and still wouldn't today)


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Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 03 December 23 16:22 GMT (UK) »
That's good to know. I think I will have to find all the Alexanders in the Royal Horse Guards who were around in London during 1902. A bit of a long shot to say the least!