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When a distant relation married in 1893, he stated that his father was deceased.

The father died in 1895, in the Workhouse

Very sad . He was probably ashamed his dad was in the workhouse .it was the last place anyone wanted to own up to being in

Just noticed I put this on the wrong board. I hope it won't upset anyone

That is sad, especially if the reason is as Shirley stated.

I am helping a friend with her tree and she has a 1908 marriage cert. stating a father( James ) was deceased, whereas we now know that he didn't die until many years later.
We suspect that the father left the family in the north east of England and moved to the London area ( for work? ) but the groom's mother had several young children in 1901 and 1911 and newly acquired birth certs. don't really clarify if James was the father.

With him away from home, it perhaps easier for the mother to say James had died, but when this happened during a succession of children, who knows..?

Gwyn

Sometimes when a woman is still married but the husband has left and she has children she will say they belong to the husband


I have a birth cert with the fathers name on it The father died 15 months earlier in WW1 Sadly the baby died and the mother not long after from complications from the birth

I don't think it actually matters precisely where the man died, the sad thing is that his son said he was dead, when he wasn't.

I have a few marriage certificates (siblings) who state that their father is 'deceased'. When in fact he is alive and well and living on the same street!!

When their mother died, he remarried very quickly to a much younger woman, who they all knew and was a contemporary of the older children. And then went on to have 3 more children, he was a game old boy!

I think they were so annoyed at this they just disowned him.

I have many instances of this and, seemingly, for many different reasons.

Some, name a deceased father because in reality they do not and never have known their father.

Some like above disown their father.

And one I believe said his father was deceased because (a) he was marrying a sixteen year old who was just a few months from giving birth and (b) because shortly after the birth he disappeared and started a new life elsewhere leaving the sixteen year old to have another twelve children by another man. All of the children were given her husband's name and she only married this second man nearly 30 years later when she thought her husband, incorrectly as it transpired, had died :-( :-( :-(

I have many instances of this and, seemingly, for many different reasons.

Some, name a deceased father because in reality they do not and never have known their father.

Some like above disown their father.

And one I believe said his father was deceased because (a) he was marrying a sixteen year old who was just a few months from giving birth and (b) because shortly after the birth he disappeared and started a new life elsewhere leaving the sixteen year old to have another twelve children by another man. All of the children were given her husband's name and she only married this second man nearly 30 years later when she thought her husband, incorrectly as it transpired, had died :-( :-( :-(