Illegitimate Child

[Forfarian]

So in effect there is a possibility that the child's surname may not be Brown and this makes searching even more difficult

Not necessarily, because even if the child's father did accompany the mother and sign the certificate, the child should still be indexed under the mother's surname as well as the father's.

[Jimster]

For some reason there was an increase in illegitimate births in the years 1939 - 1945   

[DeanneandTony]

Yes we do have the details of her parents deaths and where she was living when she married.  That was one of the addresses she couldn't remember (despite the fact that we found later that she did have her marriage certificate with those details on). 

The only addresses she gave us were where she was born and where she and her husband lived immediately prior to immigrating.  Again, this added to our suspicions about her not wanting us to have contact with people that may have known her as a young woman.

Thinking about it I need to check when her brother Gavin married as his wife didn't know anything about a family secret so it would have to be prior to their getting together which will narrow the time frame down a bit more. 

Deanne

[DeanneandTony]

Thank you for everyone's help on this.  We have purchased a couple of birth certificates we thought likely but to no avail.

One day we might be able to find some living relatives of her husband's family the Landers and maybe someone there might have heard the story. 

And if we ever get back to Scotland we'll put some time aside to search the records properly for ourselves.

Or maybe someday someone will be trying to find their mother and find this string of queries......  We live in hope.

Deanne

[tootsiepie]

Hi, This might be something or nothing, but there is (girl) Brown , born Govan, 1943.   Perhaps someone going to genalogy centre might just look this one up for you.    I have sometimes found that illegitimate girl babies were often given their mothers christian name(s).

Moderator Comment: Birth details too recent to include here on the open forum.

[DeanneandTony]

Hi
Yes we tried that one - really thought we had something there but no, very firmly with both parents on certificate :-(

Deanne

[tootsiepie]

Sorry Mod  Forgot!!

Deanne, something may turn up in the future.