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Willyam

Thank you for this, I will pass this onto to my colleague.

Steve

Thank you both for the replies.

My colleague and I were discussing the possible reason for their male relatives, father's name missing of the birth certificate.

The child took the mothers maiden name as a surname. The mother later married (thought likely to the real father of the child). The child ended up with a double barrelled surname (mothers maiden surname and the mothers new husband's surname). Later in life the now adult child "dropped" the first part of their surname (mothers maiden name).

The phrase "adopted" has been used as a way of explaining the change of surname for the child and lack of a father on the birth certificate. We of course had to consider that the mother really didn't know who the father was, but it is thought possible they weren't married or living together at the time the child was born.

Steve

Quote from: Milliepede on Tuesday 21 November 17 10:01 GMT (UK)

Ah found the marriage I had lost - it was transcribed as Janes not Jones

Father for George William is George a paper maker

Thanks for that, gives me something to work on when looking in the census returns. I will let you know if I find any children (without posting names of course) for Herbert and Barbara.

I found no Baxter's born during the period Barbara was alive with the mothers surname given as Lyon, there were a number where the mothers maiden name was listed as Baxter, which may be worth a look at. I have come across this before on other branches of the family tree, where the mothers married name was given as her maiden name.

Had a quick look and couldn't see any but you may have more luck.

I take it Emily was a spinster throughout?

Yes she was, we don't know if she ever had a man in her life, even if she did, she never married.

Regarding Beales St. When Emily's mother Mary Leah Eaden died in April 1922. The informant was Emily and she gave her address as 30 Beales St, Aston Manor.

This left just her from her immediate family, her father died in 1918, her brother DOW in 1915.

Marriage Sep 1952 Birmingham

Herbert W Baxter
Barbara J Lyon

so you could check for children there, bit recent to post any names.

That would be the Barbara J Baxter at Hansons Bridge Road then, I will start looking through the birth records for any children.

The electoral register clearly puts Eva at 30 Beales St a lot earlier than I originally thought, I suspect she was there from the beginning (1920) and for some reason didn't register in certain years.

Buy the time she died aged 82 in 1955, Emily White was listed on the cremation records as "retired", not surprising given her age.