Genealogy Chat

c'mon you clever lot solve this little problem for me .
there is more background research to this but i havent included it otherwise thread would go on and on !!
My grt grandfather Benjamin Guy Lawson was born in Sandy Bedfordshire as was his father George Lawson but my difficulty in finding any certificates for them led me to the following discovery . It transpires George was born George HUNT and according to his marriage cert his father was called William LAWSON .George married Sarah White and while they lived in Sandy they had two children one of which was Benjamin but then they moved to Eynsford in Kent and it was then they changed their name to LAWSON where they had more children .I assume Benjamin never knew of the name change and went by the name of Lawson without knowing anything of the Hunt surname .SO how do i locate George's birth cert Hunt or Lawson ?would the name change have to be registered ? was the name change at the same time as the move suspicious? Any ideas .I can let you know how i deduced all the above but its more important to locate the birth cert for George

I guess you have this? It's from BVRI:

HUNT, George Marriage
Wife: Sarah WHITE
Marriage Date: 13 Feb 1872 Recorded in: Sandy, Bedfordshire, England
Husband's Father: William LAWSON
Wife's Father: Benjamin WHITE
Source: FHL Film 1279179 Dates: 1837 - 1895

Doesn't seem to help that George was listed as born Oxfordshire in 1881, Not Known in 1891 and Sandy in 1901.

Rose

Posting this just for birth years & places:
1881 census
Maplescombe Cabin, Kingsdowne in Dartford, Kent
George Lawson, head, 30, farm labourer, born Oxfordshire
Sarah, wife, 31, born Sandy, Bedfordshire
Louisa, dau, 8, born Sandy
Benjamin, son, 6, born Sandy
Emma, dau, 4, born Kent, Eynsford
George, son, 3 days, born Eynsford

This looks like Benjamin's birth reference:-

Name: Benjamin Guy Hunt
Year of Registration: 1874
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Biggleswade
County: Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire
Volume: 3b
Page: 355

I'd say George's birth was probably under the name of Hunt, but since registration wasn't cmpulsory until 1875, then he may not have been registered at all.

Kath. x

Something curious about Sarah, too. This looks like her on the 1871 census with the name Tatman, although father is Benjamin White. A child of mother's previous marriage?
1871 census
Chatton, Blunham & Muggerhanger, Bedfordshire
Benjamin White, head, 37, ag labourer
Mary, wife, 37. lacemaker
Sarah Tatman, dau, unmarried, 18, lacemaker
Henry White, son, 15, ag labourer
Sarah White, dau, 19, lacemaker
Emma White, dau, 12, lacemaker
Jane Brockett, boarder, widow, 80, general domestic
All born Muggerhanger except Jane Brockett.

Sorry, just realized there's a Sarah White there too.

A bit more info. from the marriage cert would be good. What about witneses, ages, occupations.....?

Rose

wow thanks for your input but as you may have guessed a lot of this info was the part i neglected to put in .f'instance the only way i found Benjamin Guy Hunt was to put in Benjamin Guy into FREEBMD search fortunealtley it was a rare enough combination only to throw Benjamin Guy HUNT just to check i searched for his older sister Louisa and this too gave me the references for a Louisa HUNT birth certificate .

Margaret I must have seen that census entry I shall check it myself ,it appears i have Sarah with Ann white in Biggleswade in 1871 Ann being a widow


Portland Rose the marriage cert is just very basic showing two witnesses Elias and Ruth Underwood and it does not give whether the fathers were deceased .Otherwise everything else is normal batchelor Spinster both residing in Sandy Full age for both .


I suppose I shall have to get of my fat behind and go search some parish registers