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Maiden names
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Terry | Report | 26 Jul 2009 11:48 |
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I have an ancestor Sarah born 1822/23 at Gt Henny,Essex who I`m trying to find the maiden name of. There is no sign of her first marriage but there would be a birth certificate of a son born 1850. There is a marriage certificate available for her second marriage in 1858 and a birth certificate for a subsequent son in 1860. Can anyone suggest which of these certificates is most likely to show her maiden name. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 26 Jul 2009 12:15 |
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Marriage cert would show the name of her Dad's name provided she's not a base so I'd go for son's birth cert myself |
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Kate | Report | 26 Jul 2009 15:42 |
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If you're lucky, the son's birth certificate might name his mother as, for instance, "Sarah Smith formerly Jones, late Brown" which I think is the convention for describing (in this example) a Sarah Jones who married a Mr. Brown and then later married a Mr. Smith. |
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