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Glamorganshire / Re: Aberkenfig baptisms, where do I find them?
« on: Saturday 07 January 23 14:46 GMT (UK)  »
I know this is an old thread, but just in case someone else is looking for the whereabouts of Jenkins Row, I have found it! My 2x great grandparents lived there at the 1891 Census, as did my great grandmother when she was a child. Her father was an iron puddler.

If you look at a contemporary map, look for the dead end of Dunraven Street as it curves towards Park Road (the B2481). Jenkins Row was on the south side of Park Road. I hope this Google Maps link works: https://goo.gl/maps/qoABHMUfEHanGDVE8

I've tried to attach an 1870s map but as I'm typing this, I can't see if it's worked or not. Fingers crossed!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Names of illegitimate children.
« on: Sunday 21 November 10 15:46 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: dudjac on Saturday 22 April 06 19:40 BST (UK)
Hi.
Maybe someone can tell me if it was usual for the mother of an illegitimate child to include the fathers surname as part of the childs name.
e.g. In 1856 I have a ancestor who had such a child and called him William Bromley Spink and also gave the fathers name as William Bromley Spink, a shoe maker by trade.  I know this child was illegitimate and have found a person with the name William Bromley who was a shoe maker. I can never be sure if he was the father, but its a possibility.
Secondly I now come across another rellie in 1795, called Peggy Galton who had an illegitimate child and call her Mary Toms Galton.
I havent as yet tried to trace a chap called ....Toms, but again it seems a possibility.
Any remarks appreciated.

dudjac

Hi there!

I am a direct descendant of Mary Toms Galton and have only just located her siblings and her mother Peggy.  According to the Bishop's Transcripts (via Dorset Online Parish Clerk) that her fifth child, James Galton, was illegitimate, so I think we can assume they all were.  Mary is the only one to have an additional "middle name" and I thought too that it might be the father's surname.

I've only just discovered all this as I said (after years of trying to find anything on Mary Toms Galton at all) so I've not done any more digging, but I would be interested in getting in touch as I see your research interests include Jacobs.  My great grandmother was Anna Jane Jacobs (1872-1955), daughter of Samuel Jacobs (1826-1902), who was the son of James Jacobs (1794-1879) who married Mary Toms Galton.

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