Thanks, karenlee, rolnora, heatherjulie.
Heatherjulie, with your last post it would indicate that George’s father used his wife’s maiden name, Dawson, when George was christened. Is that at all normal? Would he have done that to match up with the name that was on George birth certificate in which George has his mother’s maiden name, Dawson?
So, if I am following this all correctly:
1. George is born to Hannah (Ann) Dawson in September 1861 before she is married.
2. She marries William Brown in November 10, 1861.
3. George was christened on Dec 21, 1862 and his father’s name is now shown as being William Dawson.
4. George had a sister in 1863 and she had the last name of Brown.
No wonder I have been confused trying to follow George’s life on ancestry.com. It gets easier after the 1891 census which shows him living with wife Emma and four sons. His name is then shown as Dawson.
I would have to assume here that Hannah is marrying the actual father of George. If William Brown is not actually the father, I don’t think I would find out who was his father unless I found a letter somewhere.
To confuse matters a little more, looking at the 1871 England census results, when I put in William Brown with a year of birth around 1839 (based upon his age of 22 during marriage in 1861) with a spouse named Hannah, I don’t find a William and Hannah living with a child named George. So, perhaps Hannah and William married, but by 1871 she was not living with William. So I thought maybe she is living with her father, Isaac Dawson, in 1871 with her son George, but I am not finding her that way either. When I search on herself as head of household, I don’t find her with George.
