Are there records of Registrars?

[sitrucat]

Not sure if this should be on this board or the Cambridgeshire one but here goes....

I have a strange coincidence in my research and wonder if anyone could advise please.

I have the birth certificate for Eliza Lefevre ("Lefevie" transcription error on Ancestry) Sallabanks b 20 Jan 1891 Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, mother Rebecca Sallabanks no father's name given and we know she was illegitimate (she was my father-in law's mother.). We know that sometimes the father's name was given as the child's middle name but the coincidence is that the registrar's name is John Fevre.  However, I can find no John Fevre in the 1891-1901 census records that would indicate he would be a registrar - just saddlers, labourers & farmers. 

Does anyone know if or how I could confirm he was a registrar and find out more? I doubt he was the father and already have three possible "LeFevre" fathers but it just seems a real coincidence for a relatively uncommon name and variant; although there are a number in the Cambridgeshire area at this time.

Incidentally the mother is shown as a "dressmaker" which I believe was also used to describe someone of ill-repute, is this correct?

Thanks

Terry

[mshrmh]

Using the Historical Directories website Kelly's Directory of Cambs, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1892. [Part 1: Cambridgeshire] lists John Fevre of Queen St Whittlesey as Registrar of Briths Marriages and Deaths
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

Searching using the keyword Fevre under Cambridgeshire 1890s turns up several references to John Fevre, as well as Ja. Fevre

[Little Nell]

By profession John Fevre was a saddler and harness maker.  He was a councillor on the Isle of Ely council, also the assistant overseer and collector of Poor rates, Parish clerk of St Mary's, Vestry clerk to the United parishes, Vaccination officer and Registrar of Births Marriages & Deaths.

What a busy chap!

the mother is shown as a "dressmaker" which I believe was also used to describe someone of ill-repute, is this correct?

Sometimes, but there must have been some genuine dressmakers in the world.

Nell

[sitrucat]

Very many thanks to both of you for your replies; that's most helpful.

Terry

[Redroger]

Heard "Lady of no occupation" etc.etc. but never dressmaker. Is this one peculiar to the Cambridge area?

[carol8353]

Heard "Lady of no occupation" etc.etc. but never dressmaker. Is this one peculiar to the Cambridge area?

You will get 'dressmaker's'(wink wink nudge nudge) in any large city.......most of them were in London of course 

Carol

[Redroger]

And I thought I knew London quite well- used to work at King's Cross!

[Nick29]

Does anyone know if or how I could confirm he was a registrar and find out more? I doubt he was the father and already have three possible "LeFevre" fathers but it just seems a real coincidence for a relatively uncommon name and variant; although there are a number in the Cambridgeshire area at this time.

French sounding names are not as uncommon as you think in this part of England.  They would be descendents of Huguenot families who first settled in Lincolnshire, and later in the Whittlesey, Eye and Thorney areas of Cambridgeshire from about 1650 onwards.

http://contueor.com/wisbech/history/

[Redroger]

So could the surname MOULE be of Hughenot origin?