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Unregistered birth?
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Janet | Report | 28 Jun 2010 23:17 |
Quite agree Sylvia - my grandmother always thought her birthday was 30 June until she applied for her birth certificate when she was in her 60s or 70s and found it was the 29th June! Turns out I have discovered her half brother (John Key) was 30 June a few years earlier. I'm starting to think seriously about the twin issue as far as Albert and John are concerned. Wish I could get a baptism... |
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Madmeg | Report | 28 Jun 2010 23:45 |
In the absence of a lot of information that you say you don't want repeating, I am hard pushed to imagine why you suspect that Albert was not the son of Hannah. |
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Madmeg | Report | 28 Jun 2010 23:51 |
Just to add, I do have a family in my own tree where the parents insisted on recording a child as their own on censuses - and she was the grandchild. So I am not dismissing that as a possibility here. But in that case I had other evidence that she was not the granchild. |
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Potty | Report | 29 Jun 2010 16:52 |
Do you have the birth cert for the John you think might possibly be Albert's twin? If he was a twin, the cert would have time of birth on it. If it does, try contacting the relevant register office and ask them to check who the twin was. I have known in the past for only one of twins to be in the GRO index. |
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Janet | Report | 29 Jun 2010 21:11 |
Thanks Potty, yes I do have John's birth certificate and no time on it! I think Albert must always remain a mystery - even his own son was in doubt as to the parentage and figured it was probably Annie. The fact that Albert came to NZ to join Annie after old Hannah died possibly reinforces that. Still strange that his birth wasn't registered, unless as others have suggested, it was under a different name. That doesn't quite seem right to me though. Oh well! |
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Madmeg | Report | 29 Jun 2010 23:49 |
Has this one been mentioned? |