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Re: Alice Laws (b.1870) - Adopted?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 16 March 10 18:21 GMT (UK) »
It's been a long day...
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Re: Alice Laws (b.1870) - Adopted?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 16 March 10 18:23 GMT (UK) »
Is this the death registration of John's wife*?

Sep qtr 1870

Mary Ann LAWS aged 31

Sunderland 10a 313

Obviously Alice can't have been born after her mother's death (though the circumstances might have delayed registration, if indeed there was a birth registration).

*NB I can't find a suitable marriage in her maiden surname of YOUNGER - was she previously married (e.g. to a Mr SHAW)?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Alice Laws (b.1870) - Adopted?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 16 March 10 18:30 GMT (UK) »
Mary Ann Younger (Alice's Mother) was indeed married to Henry Shaw (A Scot, b. 1829 Inverkeithing). They had a daughter, Sarah Ann, b, 1860. Henry died in 1866.

Mary Ann Younger then married John Laws in 1868, I think. Alice must have arrived in before Mary Ann's death (recorded in several other people's trees as 12 Sep 1870 - I have seen a cert) - so there is a childbirth theory...

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Lynn in Monaghan and Derry

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Re: Alice Laws (b.1870) - Adopted?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 16 March 10 18:34 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: JonnyL on Tuesday 16 March 10 18:30 GMT (UK)

Mary Ann Younger then married John Laws in 1868, I think.


Yes - she's indexed on FreeBMD as marrying in the name SHAW rather than YOUNGER.  Not unusual to take a stepfather's name.

So Alice wasn't illegitimate (which is why I looked for a marriage for her parents - wondering whether she was registered at birth in her mother's maiden name).
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Alice Laws (b.1870) - Adopted?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 16 March 10 18:36 GMT (UK) »
So maybe I should look for an Alice SHAW or YOUNGER in 1881? If she was around then...
Laws in East Durham, Collinson in Teesdale,
Harker in Durham and Cumberland
Lynn in Monaghan and Derry
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