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Josephine married Jesse under the name of Scott - that would seem to indicate that Robert and John were probably both illegitimate. Do you have their marriage cert?

Potty,

Agree it looks like Robert and John were illegitimate. I've sent off for Robert Scott's birth cert but I doubt it will have his father's name?

Josephine married Jesse Kitchear Hllyear in 1890 but I dont have the cert. Her parents were John and Martha Scott. She and her two sisters were in the Brighton workhouse in 1871. I'm told she died in Poole in 1945 aged 89

Visited the Scott grave at Hollybrook Cemetery last weekend and there is a very old wooden cross with his and two daughters names - but dont know who put it there

Which birth cert have you sent for? There are two possibles:


Births Jun 1883 (>99%)
SCOTT Robert Brighton 2b 276 Scan available - click to view

Births Sep 1884 (>99%)
Scott Robert Brighton 2b 237

I've opted for the 1884 cert because he was 22 years old when married in 1907 and 69 when he died in 1953

I think 1883 will be too early

Let's hope it helps but, as you say, it will probably not have the father's name.

In the end we opted for the 1883 birth certificate and that proved to be the right one but, as we suspected, there is no father named on it.

We have since discovered that his brother was actually named WILLIAM John Scott and are awaiting his birth certificate to see if any father's name appears on that one. Then again, they could have different fathers!

A further note on their mother Josephine. She did die, and is buried, at Poole. Through her marriage with Jesse Hillyear, they did have a second son named William who was born at Brighton in 1893 but died just two years later.

Thanks again to all who assisted in these searches