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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Brixham grave
« on: Thursday 16 April 15 20:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both for your replies. Yes, I am connected to the family through Edward and Martha Dix - though I have Charlotte's daughter (Charlotte Elizabeth) as marrying William Wood (Lt Gen Wood, Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands) and having nine children rather than being childless! I did wonder whether Elizabeth Gaverick was perhaps black or mixed race; something I suppose we will never know.

Elizabeth Gaverick (or Nicolle) lived and died at Churston Ferrers, but the church there, St Mary the Virgin, was on land that was largely unsuitable for burials, so Churston Ferrers residents were usually buried at St Mary's, Upper Brixham. Charlotte Edwards Dix specified in her will that she was to be buried in the same grave as both her mother and her husband.

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Brixham grave
« on: Wednesday 15 April 15 17:57 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately I have had no further luck with Charlotte Dix - I visited Brixham churchyard myself last year but it is very large and most of the older gravestones are in a very bad state, so despite diligent searching we were unable to identify the Dix grave.

It is interesting to know of the link with Bryan Edwards, however; presumably this is where Charlotte's middle name of Edwards comes from, and may be a link on her mother's side. I must do some further research! I assume the will did not specify her relationship to Bryan Edwards in any way?

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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Charles Bromley; birth record? Staffordshire 1818
« on: Thursday 29 August 13 10:55 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: NeilMc on Wednesday 21 August 13 19:39 BST (UK)
Hi

I know that this post was created a while ago now.
However, I was just wondering what the result of it was.

I am a descendant of Hannah Bromley and Herbert Knapper.

I am also intrigued by the family bible that was mentioned.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Neil

Sorry Neil, I'm afraid I never got any further with this one! Good luck with your search though.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Looking for Francis Duppa, Aldgate, born around 1770?
« on: Monday 02 May 11 16:15 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for this interesting information! I have sent you a personal message with my email address so that we can compare notes.

Jane

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Nottinghamshire / Re: Taylor, Ragnall 1858, baptism look-up
« on: Friday 19 February 10 10:37 GMT (UK)  »
I don't have William's birth certificate to be absolutely sure, but in 1881 he was staying with Rebecca's sister Hannah where he was described as "nephew", so it looks pretty likely. Rebecca and her sister must have both been rather naughty girls, each having an illegitimate son! I haven't found any more children for either of them after their marriages.

I have Edward Holberry as dying in 1904; I haven't been able to find Rebecca in the 1911 census, and I haven't tracked down a death or remarriage for her, either. So what happened to her I really don't know!

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Nottinghamshire / Re: Taylor, Ragnall 1858, baptism look-up
« on: Thursday 18 February 10 19:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Claire

Yes, I have William Taylor (not Holberry) as marrying his stepfather's niece Hannah Holberry on 3 Apr 1893. She was the daughter of William Holberry and Sarah Dows.  William and Hannah had four children on the 1911 census -  Christopher Augustus, 1894; Annie Winifred, 1896; Louie Amelia, 1898, and William Charles, 1900. Louie Amelia married Ernest Thomas Simpson in 1921, but I haven't found any marriages for the other children.

It's quite a while since I looked at this branch of the family, too!

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The Common Room / Re: Surname of illegitimate child
« on: Sunday 08 June 08 18:05 BST (UK)  »
By the way, the useful website was http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/acs/sites/registration/family-history/

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The Common Room / Re: Surname of illegitimate child
« on: Sunday 08 June 08 18:02 BST (UK)  »
Just found a couple of useful website which I think give me my answer. Apparently before 1875 the mother was allowed to name any man as the father, and he was not required to acknowledge paternity. It doesn't spell it out, but I assume from this that after 1875, he did have to acknowledge paternity to be named on the birth certificate. The current GRO rules are that if you are unmarried and want the father's details to be entered in the register, then both parents can go and sign the birth register together; or if the father is unable to go to the register office with the mother but still wants to be named as the father on the certificate, then he has to make a statutory declaration acknowledging his paternity which is given to the registrar.

It was from 1 April 1969 that the surname of the child, which could be any name the parents chose, was entered separately on the certificate.

So it looks as though my 1940s illegitimate relative was acknowledged by the father whereas the 1920s one wasn't. I think this was probably through ignorance or oversight rather than deliberate - the family stayed together until the father's death at the age of 95!

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The Common Room / Re: Surname of illegitimate child
« on: Sunday 08 June 08 17:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Stan. So as there was no column for the child's surname, does that mean the child had to take the father's surname, or if that was not given, the mother's surname? No other option?

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