Confusing relationships - oh my

[Ashtone]

Or you could purchase the GRO digital birth and/or death record for son Alfred Baldwin. Cheaper and faster than the marriage cert, but without WB's father's name and occupation.

Hopefully WB's occupation isn't "labourer".

[BushInn1746]

Long story short, Amy Allen is my third great grandmother, and she was born and raised in Wooburn Green. She has one illegitimate (it seems) son in 1873 - Gilbert John Thomas Allen. I haven't yet ordered his birth cert, but I plan to. In 1880 there appears to be his baptism.

Gilbert John Thomas Allen
Bapt. 29 Feb 1880
Wooburn Green
Father: Frederick Allen (Labourer)
Mother: Amey Allen
 ...
She is referred to as Amy Sophia Reeves on her death record as well.

Thanks all,
Ali

Looking up and down the Census with Gilbert John Thomas Allen born 1873 and putting the names in Free BMD, I feel the marriage you require is:-

Marriages Dec Qtr 1878 Reg'n District Mansfield.
Thomas Reeves
Amy Sophie Allen

In 1891
Gilbert Allen 18, Corn Merchant's Assistant born Bucks Wooburn Green, was Stepson to the Head of the Household Thomas Reeves.

The relationship should always be to the Head of the Household, if the Census Schedule was completed correctly.

In 1881 Gilbert Allen 8, is with his Grandmother, Mary Allen, 58, born Bucks, Wooburn.

Using Gilbert's Grandmother's details, you can go back another 10 years and see Amey Allen with her Mother.

Mark

[BushInn1746]

Mansfield Reporter, 8th November 1878

On the 3rd inst., at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Mansfield, by the Rev. C. Priestley, Mr. Thos. Reeves to Miss Amy Sophie Allen, both of Mansfield.

Yes, a Spinster according to the newspaper Notice, as well.