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Surname changes!
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Lisa | Report | 28 Nov 2008 21:42 |
Does anyone have any idea why a married woman with childen would change back to her maiden name in 1900? She also added her maiden name to atleast one of her children |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 28 Nov 2008 21:45 |
where's the husband?? |
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Lisa | Report | 28 Nov 2008 21:58 |
Sylvia |
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Heather | Report | 28 Nov 2008 22:49 |
BUT how do you know she married said John Bennett? Have you found the marriage cert? |
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Lisa | Report | 28 Nov 2008 23:00 |
No to be honest just all the other childen on the 1901 census were called Bennett (the Husbands name) |
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Nightowl51 | Report | 29 Nov 2008 00:58 |
My gt gt grandmother had 8 children and so far all the children, where my cousin and I have got their birth certs to find the father have had no father metioned and registered in her maiden name. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 29 Nov 2008 01:29 |
Did you actually look at the image on the 1901 Census? |
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tombola | Report | 30 Nov 2008 17:02 |
Not that old chesnut !!! We had someone listed as a "housekeeper" and her and the head of the house had eight children over 20 years. Then married; all the kids had double barreled names. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 30 Nov 2008 20:09 |
I think "housekeeper" was common misnomer for "mistress" ........ helped to make it look respectable!! |
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Kate | Report | 30 Nov 2008 21:53 |
I've got a case like that - one George Hurst married Elizabeth Rimmer in 1862, but Elizabeth died in 1864. By 1871, George is a widower with his unmarried housekeeper Elizabeth Bennett (aged 30) with her three children (all aged 9 or under . . .) . Come 1881, George and Elizabeth are married, and her children are now Hursts, and she's had a few more (presumably George's.) |
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Montmorency | Report | 30 Nov 2008 22:51 |
If I'm looking at the right family, there are BMD index entries for |
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Lisa | Report | 9 Dec 2008 16:41 |
That is the family! |