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I found a Jane M Drew born in July, August or September 1916 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Mothers maiden name: Friend. (volume 2B; page 880). There were loads of men/boys called William Sayers born about that time.

thank you, i will look into this..didnt realise i could get so much help. i appreciate it.

Just a thought Susan - have you researched the Knotts to see if either of them has a connection to a Sayers or a Drew? Just in case they adopted your dad with him being the child of a relative.

May be a blind alley but worth looking into.

hi,
i did make the mistake of ticking 'marked as answered'

i cant change this so i want you to know my problems ARE NOT solved and still on here looking for help.

thank you everyone.

Sue xx

Awwh bubbles !!!! Jax !

I don't know why GR doesn't just remove this tick for answered thingy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dea Xxx

Dea I don't think the option to undo a tick is still there...tried it on one of my own threads a few days ago

Hi Susan,

GR have a very stupid system on here re marking something answered!

By ticking the 'marked as answered' button you are sending the message out that your whole query is now resolved !!

NOT your fault but theirs!

People may assume that you do not need any further help on this which is not the case!

I suggest that you click to undo the tick so that people will continue to help.

Dea Xxx

thanks Glasgowlass.
im interested as wondering why my dad would have been given up as a tiny baby so secretly if they were married. x

The woman born Jane Munro Drew 1911 in Inverkeithing.
She married in Fife 1933.
Her husband was called Alfred Tucker.

Edit:
She was the daughter of George Munro Drew and Isabella Currie who married in Inverkeithing 1910.
Her father died whilst in miltary service in 1918 and the family were still Inverkeithing at that time.

There is nothing obvious that would place this woman in England 1932 ( birth of a child) and her subsequent marriage in 1933 in Inverkeithing

Probably 2 different women with the same name

thank you Dea
i will do that.
susan

If you have an address from a 1932 birth cert - there would be an electoral roll for that time.

Contact the main library closest to that address and ask if they would do a look up for you.

Dea Xxx

hi everyone,
thank you for helping.
My father passed away recently. family name 'Knott' when we found his birth certificate it said he was William Sayers born in Farnham 3rd february 1932. this was a shock as we new nothing about it. the birth cert says fathers name also William Sayers Architectural draughtsman (no date of birth) and mother Jane munro Sayers (nee Drew) so i guessed they were married. no job shown for the mother.these would have been my grandparents and not the ones we thought were (now dead). he cant have been adopted legally as no one new. sorry to be vague.. i know no more.i have found out my dad didnt know anything until he was 16 when he joined the navy and saw his birth certificate, he immediately kept it a secret and never even told me :( i cant ask him and am now curious...im even guessing their birth dates.. i do have an address but the house isnt there damn !!!

Helen,
Looks like his wife is simply not on the census.

SP search shows
Charles Drew married Mary Phipps in Inverkeithing in 1910

Drew ... in the 1911 census for Inverkeithing.

Only one showing up.

Charles Drew .. age 26yrs .. married .. born England .. Gen labourer (dock construction)

He is boarding (no wife) with the Upton family who are also from England.

Not sure this info adds anything significant to the search ...

OK.....
Susan needs to return to the thread and tell us what year her father was born.
Was he born in Fife 1928 with birth name of Drew?

I have located the 1933 marriage in Fife for the woman that I believe is above Jane Munro Drew and she did not marry William Sayer.

Edit:
Poster possibly found the death cert for her father under the name that he was known by.
Whoever registered the death, knew who his biological parents were and put them on the DC.

My own GF was also raised outside his birth family, and had another name.
His birth name and his biological parents were added to the Scottish Death Cert

Jane Munro Drew
Birth Registered in Scotland 1911.

Will return to with more info as it takes a while to manipulate SP


EDIT
Birth Registered 1911 Inverkeithing, Fife

The birth reg Jax found, if it is the correct, one implies that they were married and as Susan seems to have his mother's full maiden name, it looks like she has the birth cert.

Susan, what is the father's occupation on the birth cert?

As Susan is a new poster, I will send her a friendly message as to how to return to her thread. :-)

The mother's name is almost certainly Scottish......at least in origin

As their child was adopted, the odds are that they weren't actually married


Without ,location info..............we can't even try to help

From the opening post:

"biological fathers name
William Sayers circa 1910
mother Jane Munro Drew circa 1910"

I'd surmised that Susan had established these to be the biological parents as opposed to those believed to be his parents. It reads to me that she'd established these were his natural parents when she says she's managed to locate his birth certificate.