Did she mistake the father?

[Redroger]

So far, I have found nothing like this to make my research more difficult. No doubt the time will come.

[nelliedee]

Busylizzie - has he got an explanation for the different name? I assume that sometimes people use names as 'pet' names or just to distinguish themselves fromsomeone else (apart from the errors!). We deal with members of the public at work and several times we have had folk who use a name that isn't on their birth certificate.

Redroger - glad to hear you haven't had this problem (Yet!) not one to wish for I might add.

regards to you both

[busylizzie123]

Busylizzie - has he got an explanation for the different name?

Can't ask him now he's passed, don't think it was a pet name but guess it could have been and at first I thought maybe her Grandfathers name but thats the same Edward,although there was an Uncle Thomas so came to the conclusion it was a written error by the vicar at the time of the wedding

[nelliedee]

Sorry busylizzie I misunderstood  your post - I thought he was still alive. Your problem sound very similsr to mine.

I also had a problem with the name of one of my husband's great uncles - everyone said he was called Don......I looked for ages and couldn't find him, then the penny dropped when I found the rest of the family, he wasn't Donald or anything like that, he was Gordon. We don't all use the same abbreviations either!

[busylizzie123]

  thats like Andrew being either Andy or Drew if they didn't spell it correctly could end up Drow.Droo etc

Glad you found him,,,,,,,,,,sometimes it ain't easy

[LizzieW]

So far, I have found nothing like this to make my research more difficult. No doubt the time will come.

All I've got is a g.grandfather who miraculously appears in 1884 as the father of my gran.  I can't find anything about him before that, so all I can think is that for some reason he changed his birth name when he met my g.gran.  At least he stayed around until his death in 1935!

[Redroger]

So far, I have found nothing like this to make my research more difficult. No doubt the time will come.

All I've got is a g.grandfather who miraculously appears in 1884 as the father of my gran.  I can't find anything about him before that, so all I can think is that for some reason he changed his birth name when he met my g.gran.  At least he stayed around until his death in 1935!

Not unknown, specially when an inheritence was involved.

[LizzieW]

Not sure what you mean Roger.  My g.grandfather's first appearance - at least in any records I can find - is when he is registered as the father of my gran.  The family lived together from then onwards and had 2 more children.  The children grew up and left home, as children do, and my g.gran and g.grandad lived together until her death in 1926.  He stayed at the same address until his death in 1935.

Lizzie

ps.  It's the same old brick wall I keep mentioning.  I'm going to ignore it and hope that it miraculously falls down eventually.

[Redroger]

In Victorian times Lizzie, it was sometimes required for a legacy to be conditional on its intended recipient adopting the surname of the person who left in in order that the surname might continue. I think the practice was mainly confined to the wealthiest echelons of society.