Genealogy Chat

Thanks, Chris. I have all the censuses. It's the family of Aaron Vaughan. I think we have narrowed it down to the birth registered in Dec Qtr 1884 as the Baptism for that Herbert was in Holy Trinity the same Civil Parish as the 1901 census for Aaron Vaughan's family. Also, the baptism for Charlotte was in Holy Trinity

Thanks for all your help....

Thanks, nameslessone. Yes, it's the father's name that is asked first so the Registrar must have thought the mother was married.

Little did the Registrar know that he would be helping to solve a mystery over a 130 years later as the child's Marriage Certificate doesn't name a father!

Just goes to prove that you should never assume that when a child is illegitimate there will be nothing mentioned as to who the father is on a Birth Certificate! I know it doesn't happen very often but when it does.....WOW!

I have a simillar sort of occurrence in my tree.

In this case, pre 1875, the illegitimate child has a father named and her birth is indexed twice i.e. under both surnames.

When she gets married there is no father on the certificate obtained from the GRO. However in the parish register the name of the father (as included on the birth certificate) is there, togerther with his occupation (Gentleman) but the name and occupation have been crossed out.

So I don't know whether that was a made up name or he really was the father.

The mother was one of the witnesses of the marriage, so maybe she came clean at the last minute.

I searched for years for the birth registration c. 1882 of a child brought up as Florence SKERRETT and shown with her family in Wales in 1891 and as a servant to a clergyman in North Wales in 1901.
Knowing that her 'parents' as shown on 1891 were not married until 1885, I thought she must have been a daughter born to the wife before marriage, but still nothing found.

Eventually I found her registered as Florence WAGSTAFF, which was also the name in which she married in 1902, father unknown.

Her birth certificate tells a different story.
Her birth was indexed in her mother's surname, as she was illegitimate, but the mother died in childbirth or soon after and the father Edward SKERRETT registered the birth and is shown as the informant,(father) although columns 4 and 6 are left blank, as the pair were not married.


Strange that she lived with Edward for many years and yet he wasn't named at her marriage..................

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I think if a birth certificate is later ammended, then the details, date and reason for ammendment would probably be shown at the far right-hand side of the certificate.
I have a birth certificate for a 'Girl' born 1888, whose certificate was ammended in 1901 to read that 'she' was in fact a boy.

Gwyn

Thanks KenSE and Gwyn for your input both are most interesting