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My daughter has just met with the Vicar to discuss wedding arrangements for next year.

He told her that rules have recently changed and my husband (her stepfather) can now be put down on the wedding certificate as father of the bride.

Has anyone heard of this?

It will defo confuse geneaologists in generations to come!!

Nicki

good g** .......that wont match the birth certificate!!!!

what a mess our trees are going to be

I cannot see the problem unless your daughter wishes to have something different on there.If she has been bought up by her stepfather as his Daughter,I see no reason why he should not be named as such,a father is the one who loves and brings up a child,not neccesserily the genetic one.**M**.

Wow this will cause confusions. My first husband died when my lads were 5 & 6. My husband has brought them up since they were 9 & 10 but they have kept their Dads name. They did want to change it when my daughter was born so they would have the same name but I told them to wait until they were 16 and make an informed decision as young men. They do think of my husband as their Dad but decided to keep things as they were. Don't think it will affect them though because neither of them show any sign of getting married although my youngest now has a gorgeous daughter with his partner. Both sons are in the mid/late (ish) twenties.

It is nice though :))

None of us have a problem with it, my husband is very proud and honoured that she will be able to do that. My daughter asked the Vicar if it would be possible as he has been her 'Dad' since she was 9, she is 25 next year.

I was merely making an observation that geneaologists in the future will have a confusing nightmare.


Nicki

The very reason why birth certificates are important!!
I have ancestors who were born with one (biological) father on their birth cert and married under their stepfather's name.


maggie :o)

Nicki,How lovely for both of them I wish them well, and you of course.**M**

Thanks Merlin

Nicki

Just found the following, which clarifies things:

'However, since the coming into force of the Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2007, it has been permissible to record a step-father's name, instead of the natural father's name, provided that the step-father is, or has been, married to the mother. Where a step-father's name is entered, the word "step-father" should be entered after the surname. '

Nicki

Oh how i wish i'd been able to do that on mine, my step father brought me up from the age of 9 too, had little or no contact with the biological one, which suited me. As for confusing future generations, i already did that anyway, my biological father is on my birth cert, but i refused point blank to have him on my marriage cert, so its left blank, with my stepfather being a witness instead lol