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Title: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: sarahofford on Saturday 23 January 10 19:50 GMT (UK)

Whilst researching my great grandmother's line of the family I have found some confusing records, which I hope someone will be able to help with. I have my grandmother's birth certificate which shows her mother to be Ivy Lily Colmer formerly Glanville. I have found the birth record for Ivy L Glanville to be 1915 in Plymouth Devon (which is where the family is still based so this stacks up perfectly). The mother's maiden name according to the birth record is Drake. So I spent hours searching for the marriage between Drake and Glanville and came up with nothing at all. The only possible match I have found is a marriage between John Albert Drake and Louisa Glanville in 1892 in East Stonehouse Devon. Could this be the right record, or am I barking up the wrong tree. If it is the right marriage can anyone suggest a reason why the records would show the child to have taken the mother's maiden name and the father's name to be listed as the maiden name?

Any help would be very greatly appreciated!

Sarah

Title: Re: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: sillgen on Saturday 23 January 10 20:18 GMT (UK)

Hi
It is always possible that the mother had been married before so that although her maiden name will show on the birth in 1915 she actually married  under her previous married name.    What is his name and occupation on the birth certificate?  That would help.
Andrea

Title: Re: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: heywood on Saturday 23 January 10 20:20 GMT (UK)

There are at least two other children in the Birth records with parents Glanville and Drake.
The best thing would be to order the certificate and then you can proceed from there.

best wishes
heywood

Title: Re: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: sillgen on Saturday 23 January 10 20:28 GMT (UK)

Great minds think alike heywood!  Sydney and Beatrice are the other two and as Sydney was born in 1912 it is possible that a search of the 1911 census might show a suitable family in Plymouth.   Full details from that 1915 certificate will help there too.
Andrea

Title: Re: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: heywood on Saturday 23 January 10 20:33 GMT (UK)

Mmm... I thought so too Andrea but there are a lot of Glanvilles as Sarah said.
So, I think that it is back to the certificate. :(

Title: Re: Confusion over Birth & Marriage record...Glanville/Drake
Post by: carol8353 on Saturday 23 January 10 20:39 GMT (UK)

Or of course perfectly possible that they never married at all  :o despite telling the registrar that they were married when registering the birth  ;D