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The Common Room / Re: What do you think?
« on: Saturday 11 April 09 05:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi all

Thanks for your input on this problem.  I obtained the marriage certificate of Frederick George Lathwell who married Miriam Perkins on 31 March 1907 in Hendon.  On the marriage certificate the fathers name is George Lathwell deceased.  If this is correct then on his birth certificate Jane Lathwell, his mother, is her married name and her maiden name is unknown(no father on the birth cert).  I suppose there is a small chance they both had the same surname.  So with that above  and the birth certificate of Frederick George Lathwell b 15 April 1885 in Leighton Buzzard that is all I have to go on.  I cannot find any trace of Jane Lathwell after this date but I can find George Lathwell in the census's of Hendon living with his parents(William Lewington & Emma) in the 1901 census and in the 1881 census. In the 1871 census he lived with his parents in Leighton Buzzard.  I cannot find a marriage between George Lathwell and Jane either.

I have attached the certificates. (*)

Any help is appreciated.



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The Common Room / Re: What do you think?
« on: Monday 30 March 09 21:47 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for their input.  I'm not ignoring you but I am waiting for some additional information and will get back with what I find out.

Martyn

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The Common Room / Re: What do you think?
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi thanks for the welcome.  I have no further information so I'm just mulling it over.  Indeed if he was the real father why didn't he have his surname on the certificate.  What I can prove is that later on he retained that surname which went down to my grandmother so I think I can assume he wasn't the father.  I think if the time between the birth and marriage was say a year i could let it rest but it was two days short of two months!  Can you imagine it? How did they have a relationship up to that point?  She was pregnant for the period they had a relationship which makes me thing he was the father.

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The Common Room / What do you think?
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 08:27 BST (UK)  »
I got a birth certificate yesterday of my great grandfather born in 1885.  His name is George Lathwell and his mother was Jane Lathwell.  There was no father on the certificate.  Looking through the census and other trees I found that she married someone 2 months after the said birth and they then had three children all with the surname of the newly married couple.  This is something that is new to me.  What assumptions would you come to bearing in mind the short period of time after the birth?  Do I assume he was the father?  Do I assume not because the mothers surname was carried on through the following generations?  Would someone marry a person who just had a baby by someone else?  Do I just not include the newly married males ancestors into my tree? 

Regards


Martyn

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Macintosh OS X Genealogy software
« on: Tuesday 24 March 09 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, new to this site today but I saw this thread and thought I might be able to give some input.  I have doing the genealogy thing for about 15 years or so.  previously I have used all the flavours of Family Tree Maker so quite a few different versions.  I don't know about you but I think the program has gone downhill.  Recently I bought a Macbook and was running my FTM in a Parallels virtual machine but decided to go with Reunion 9 which is a wonderful program albeit I think a tad expensive.  I also have an Iphone so I synced the data from the Mac to there with the new Reunion program at £9.99.  I've yet to use the Iphone version but a quick look around I'm very impressed.

Martyn

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