Clifford CM (surname withheld) my 1st cousin once removed was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1909. My mother had told me that her aunt had adopted a child as she couldn’t have her own children. Nothing odd in that, until I got his birth certificate and found out who his birth mother was. Her surname was M and she was a maid in a house next door but two from where my g.aunt and her husband lived. When the maid registered his birth she called him Clifford C M, C being the surname of my g.aunt’s husband. So it looks as though my g.aunt adopted her husband’s illegitimate child. On his marriage cert, CCM has not named a father, even though his adopted/real father was still alive and interestingly his home address at the time of his marriage was where his adoptive mother had been living 2 years previously when she died, so I assume he was living there with his father. On his father’s death cert he was the informant and signed it as CCM adopted son. I guess as adoption was not official at the time, CCM didn't feel he could put his adopted/birth father's name on his marriage cert.
Charles Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1800
Charles Cockett my 2 x g.grandfather was baptised in Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1811. He was illegitimate but named his father on his marriage certificate. Unlike others in this situation who often use their grandfather’s name as their father, Charles actually named another man who lived in the same place as Charles and his mother. It is such an unusual name that I assume it must be true, especially as Charles married in his home village and presumably everyone would have known who his father was.
John Dawson my husband’s g.grandfather was baptised at Manchester Cathedral in 1845
Elizabeth Duffin (nee Howard) my husband's 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Peter's Church, Liverpool in 1816
Honor Collett who would have been my g.g.aunt if she'd lived, died in Halesworth, Suffolk in 1850. She was 10 years old and died of hydrocephalus/fever. I guess she had been born with the hydrocephalus and in 1840/50 there was nothing that could be done to help her.
Henrietta Josephine Singline my 2nd cousin twice removed died in Tasmania in 1963
Anne Sharp (nee Gilchrist) my 3x g.g.aunt was buried in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1874. She was the brother of Charles Gilchrist who was baptised the same day in 1800. She was the second Anne, the first one without an E on the end of her name was born in 1802 and died in 1803. This one was born in 1808 so had a fairly long life.
Alice Hobson (nee Pemberton) my g.grandmother was buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1908. My mother had 2 grandmothers and 1 g.grandmother all called Alice. They had all died by the time my mother was born, but her older siblings knew them all. The g.grandmother outliving her younger namesakes.
William Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle married Elizabeth Lockwood in Penistone, Yorkshire in 1821. Coincidentally, William’s brother Joseph (my 2 x g.grandfather) also married someone called Elizabeth Lockwood. I haven’t researched a connection between the 2 Elizabeth’s. As Lockwood was a common name in the area, there probably isn’t a connection.
William Hobson my 3 x g.g.uncle married Fanny Smith in Kirkburton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1804. This William was the uncle of the other William who married Elizabeth Lockwood in 1821
