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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: bridgwater on Monday 14 December 09 17:39 GMT (UK)
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My GGM was listed with 3 different gentlemen over 3 decades of censuses. (1891. 1901, & 1911)Listed as married to all of them. However I have never managed to find marriage certificates. A total of 9 children were born to her....all listing either none (no Father)or one of these men as the father.
An old family member (now passed on) spoke of a rumour regarding a relationship with a "foreigner" who appeared everynow and again and left great Granny "with child" ;).
Does anbody have any ideas why she may have avoided marriage or maybe why these records are untraceable.
The family are mostly from Wednesbury, Staffs.
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I found my great great aunt seemed to have the same relationships as your relative - 3 censuses, 3 "husbands", no evidence of marriages.
After years of searching, I have decided that she married none of them!
Nothing changes...!
You could call up the birth certificates. They may name the father(s).
meles
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Thankyou Meles.
I have all birth certs....1st four children have no named father. The following five have a Harry Brown named as Father. However just 3 months after the birth of final child the whole family are listed on 1901 census as Whitehouse.
If only they had known what a headache it gives us?? ;D
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Harry Brown? Hmmm - gg aunt gave the name of the father of some of her children as Richard Green... ::)
meles
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Are you thinking as I am......easy and indistintive???