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Re marriage certs, has anyone found
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Madmeg | Report | 29 Jan 2010 22:57 |
At the end of the day, nothing is 100% certain. You don't know that your own father, who is supposedly the father of all your siblings, and married your mother before you were born, is actually your father. And with advances in science, you can't even be sure nowadays that your mother is your mother! |
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Lindsey* | Report | 29 Jan 2010 17:45 |
I received one today, a marriage of 1976, so modern., where there is no father or occupation. Although we know that her parents were brother and sister as her mother had been to prison for crimes of incest. |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 29 Jan 2010 17:02 |
Well I have one where stepfather is shown as father, one where child was registered at birth as illegitimate (but with a very odd middle name) and gives her real father's name on her marriage cert and another one where we know the lad was illegitimate, yet he gives a father's name and occupation on the marriage cert - completely made up as it bears no resemblance to anyone in his family! |
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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** | Report | 29 Jan 2010 16:59 |
On a marriage cert I have the mothers name and occupation instead of the father. However it was a couple of years too early for civil registration and cannot find a baptism unfortunately. Also cannot find mother or daughter on 1841 census so don't know what happened to daughter. |
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Rambling | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:47 |
well I will get the marriage cert first anyway...I know they are all 'mine' as it were , at least if the marriage cert sheds no further light I will have it to pass down lol |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:32 |
In this game anything goes so don't try and read into it. Best thing is to obtain as much evidence as you can and form your opinion from that. |
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FannyByGaslight | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:10 |
I have both kinds in my certs. |
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Rambling | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:10 |
Thanks Kathleen, I think it will be the case that the child thought the step father was father...and he might well have been lol. There is no birth record of him with fathers name though so he may either have been reg under mum's name ...or just not registered at all . |
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KathleenBell | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:04 |
I've seen both cases. Sometimes the father's name is left blank and other times the stepfather's name is given. You can never be sure as it all depends on what information was given - and how much knowledge the person had. They may think the step-father is the real father!! |
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Rambling | Report | 29 Jan 2010 15:00 |
that the name of father was left blank if married person was illegitimate even if they had subsequently taken name of 'step-father' ? |
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