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PM received from Tina -- Tina, would you reply in the thread as we have please? That way the info is all in one place and we don't have to toggle around between inbox and discussion board.
Part of the message:
"On my grandfather's(George Parker Farnall) birth certificate, it listed his mother as Annie Parker, housekeeper, and the father's name was not listed; but my grandfather's name on the birth ceritificate was George Parker Farnall. Apparently, he was an illegitimate child. I'm assuming Annie, knowing who the father was, gave the son his name, & using her last name as his middle name."
An unmarried woman could register a child with its father's surname only if the father consented. (If she didn't state that she was married and give her surname as her husband's, her unmarried status would be apparent, and that seems to be the csae on the certificate you have.)
Problem is that there is no such birth registration in the GRO index -- no George Farnall, no George Parker with a surname resembling it, in 1894-5.
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
There is this birth:
Births Dec 1894
Parker George Arthur Paddington 1a 66
-- I don't have a subscription to check baptism details as Sylvia has done for the George Frederick Parker birth in the next quarter.
Is the one that Sylvia has identified not the right birth?
Could you give the exact date of birth on the certificate please?
Was your grandfather certain he had the right birth certificate??
There's also no record of a George Parker or Farn* of the rightish age travelling to Canada at the rightish time as a Home Child:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php
but he wouldn't necessarily be included in that database.
If he travelled to Canada at about age 5 we would expect to see him in the 1901 Cdn census, or at least the 1911. I can't see a George by any reasonable variant of the surname Farnall in either census who matches his age:
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com
(In 1901 there's a Geo A Farnell in Nova Scotia born in 1900.)
Is this your George in the 1930 US census (again, I don't have the sub to view details)? --
Name: George P Farnall
Birth: abt 1895 - location
Residence: 1930 - city, Palm Beach, Florida
Name: George Parker Farnall
Birth: date
Death: dd mm 1984 - Palm Beach, Florida, United States
An exact search for the name at Ancestry also finds his naturalization record:
George Parker Farnall
state Georgia
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birth registration from freebmd
Births Sep 1894 (>99%)
PARKER George Frederick Paddington 1a 51
sylvia
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He was baptised George Frederick
from ancestry
London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
Name: George Frederick Parker
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1894
Baptism Date: 27 Sep 1894
Mother's Name: Annie Parker
Parish or Poor Law Union: Paddington St Peter
Borough: Westminster
from the image:-
Born:- Workhouse
no more information than that
I would assume, from past experience, that he was born very close to his baptism date.
sylvia
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The great misfortune of a very common name.
In the 1891 census, two Annie Parkers within the right age range living in Paddington, both daughters of widowed mothers:
Name: Annie M Parker
Birth: abt 1864 - Bayswater, London, England
Residence: 1891 - Paddington, London, England
Name: Annie Parker
Birth: abt 1865 - London, England
Residence: 1891 - Paddington, London, England
A couple nearby who were servants ...
Name: Annie Parker
Birth: abt 1864 - Haslemere, Surrey, England
Residence: 1891 - Kensington, London, England
Name: Annie Parker
Birth: abt 1865 - London, England
Residence: 1891 - Chelsea, London, England
And that's just at the top end of the age range I searched for (born 1863-1873, which could be too old). At the other end, e.g., a servant and the daughter of a widowed mother ...
Name: Annie Parker
Birth: abt 1874 - Paddington, London, England
Residence: 1891 - Hammersmith, London, England
Name: Annie Parker
Birth: abt 1874 - Chelsea, St Luke
Residence: 1891 - Chelsea, London, England
There are two marriages of Annie Parkers in Paddington registration district 1894 to 1901 -- can be found at FreeBMD --
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
I don't envy your situation and I can't think of any way to identify the right Annie Parker. Does George's birth cert give any informatin about her -- age, occupation ...?
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Can you explain how your grandfather got the surname Farnall? Was he born to Annie Parker and her Farnall husband?
Giving *all* the information you have is the only way to start!
Edit -- seems most likely Farnall was the name of his adoptive family in Canada?
Births Dec 1894 ?
Parker George Arthur Paddington 1a 66
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Trying to find any info on an Annie Parker, who was in Paddington Workhouse, around 1894. She had a son--my grandfather, George Parker Farnall. He was in an orphange until age 5, then sent to Canada.
I greatly appreciate any help! Thank you!
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