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James Brown B.27/11/1850 in Dalmellington Ayrshire
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Sandra | Report | 26 Jan 2015 13:17 |
Thanks for the explanation mgnv, I only wish the English certs contained as much info, all mine are England or Ireland, my husbands are all Scottish and what a difference it makes, I love to go to the Mitchell in Glasgow to the records office, they have records for whole of Scotland. |
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mgnv | Report | 26 Jan 2015 02:46 |
Sandra - yes. The first (1855) BMD certs were very detailed, and the registrar's complained abt it, and GROS over-reacted to this, and cut things out - even some that they later reinstated. |
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Sandra | Report | 25 Jan 2015 19:32 |
Thanks Kay and Glasgow lass I will remember that. |
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Sandra | Report | 25 Jan 2015 19:30 |
I found another 7 children born to this couple, the wife was 36 when she had 1st son James, so I didnt expect to find so many. |
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mgnv | Report | 25 Jan 2015 18:49 |
Kay - not necessarily for this couple. The parents marr date was omitted from b.certs for 1856-1860 - see: |
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Kay???? | Report | 25 Jan 2015 17:39 |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 25 Jan 2015 16:36 |
I discovered long ago that" Natural "child usually means out of wedlock as opposed to" Lawful" child which means born within the marriage |
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Sandra | Report | 25 Jan 2015 11:01 |
Rootgatherer, I wonder was your chap going abroad, as I found 1 like your's on my husbands tree, he went to Canada to live for the rest of his life and I wondered if maybe that was why his birth was re registered. |
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Sandra | Report | 25 Jan 2015 10:54 |
Thanks mgnv,I didnt know that, thanks for your help. |
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rootgatherer | Report | 25 Jan 2015 09:41 |
That's interesting to know Mgnv. I have a chappie in my tree born 1904, before his parents married. I was never in any doubt really about who his father was as he was named for his paternal grandfather. His father wasn't named on the original birth registration but was named when his birth was re registered in the 1930s. He was always known by his father's surname. Obviously the second registration still showed that he was born before his parents married as Scottish birth certificates give the date of the parents' marriage. I wonder why they bothered to have the birth re-registered. |
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mgnv | Report | 25 Jan 2015 07:14 |
Although the birth was illegitimate, under Scots Law, if the parents were free to marry at the time of the birth, then their subsequent marr makes the child legitimate, and having the same inheritance rights as any legitimately born children of the marr in the event of the parents dying intestate (i.e., without their making wills). |
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Sandra | Report | 24 Jan 2015 22:18 |
Thanks Beverley, im sure marriage is them in 1851 as the family always stayed in the area. |
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BeverleyW | Report | 24 Jan 2015 22:16 |
As far as I know, 'natural child' is a nicer way of saying 'illegitimate'. |
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Sandra | Report | 24 Jan 2015 22:10 |
I am helping a friend with her family tree, on SP i have her ancestor, it is an OPR, wording on it says, |