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I used a credit on Scotlandspeople to look at Alexander births with the middle name Adams buy there is no Jeanie or variation of it coming up.

This may be the Jeannie that Shirley found in 1911:

1901 England Census
Jeannie Alexander
Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: William Alexander
Mother's Name: Jane Alexander
Gender: Female
Where born: Scotland
Civil Parish: Greenwich Ecclesiastical parish: St George
County/Island: London Country: England
Registration District: Greenwich Sub-registration District: Greenwich East
ED, institution, or vessel: 18 Household Schedule Number: 95 Piece: 541 Folio: 180 Page Number: 13
William Alexander 33
Jane Alexander 32
Jeannie Alexander 7
William Alexander 5
Jessie Alexander 3
James Alexander 5 Months
Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 541; Folio: 180; Page: 13.

I wonder if a trip to the Goole library would help find when William & Ann settled in Goole? They hold the Almanacks from 1908-1940 and are in name order, and some trade directories. They also hold the electoral rolls, so it could be worth a look at the address on Mary's birth certificate.

Could also be worth contacting the library to see if they have school admissions. Not sure if you or your b-i-l are still local, but if not the local family history society will do searches, but they charge £15 per hour.

Thanks Flip, we have their address, we dont know when they moved there but once there, they remained until death. We checked the 1911 census and they were not there then so obviously moved some time between then and Jeanies birth, will pass it on, as far vitising Goole, he is most certainly within driving distance, might suggest that to him.

Rootgatherer, many thanks for that seach, she appears on neither of the birth registers then. One may assume that Jeanie was indeed an assumed name, although on Marys birth certificate she is down as Jeanie Adams Alexander. The more he is pondering over it the more he is beginning to believe she was called Jean but referred to as Jeanie his memory is vague.

I would have thought Jeannie was born at the latest 1912 - otherwise wouldn't she have been a bit young to have gone to London, got a job, & returned to have Mary? Have you considered she may have been called Jeanie Adams, and assumed the name Alexander when her mother married?