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Name change? India
« on: Wednesday 12 March 25 02:46 GMT (UK) »
I have been trying to find more about my 2x great grandmother Jane Edwards but I'm not even sure if that's her real name and it's a pretty common name. Is there any way to find whether someone may have converted to Catholicism and then changed their name? Also if anyone is able to find anything about her, that would be really helpful.

Name: Jane Edwards
DOB: 1893 (a guess)
Place of birth: Probably Kollam, India
Death: 1973
Spouse: Thomas Matthew Paes
Place of death: India

My family think that her family were probably Indigo planters. She also used to be a nurse. However, there is no information about her prior to her marriage.

The reason why I wonder whether Jane Edwards may not be her original name is that she is Catholic and recently I found that my 3x great grandmother changed her Hindu surname to a western one when she converted (she and Jane are not related).

I do have a photograph of her probably around the late 1920s with her husband my great grandmother, but I'm not sure if that would be much help.

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Re: Name change? India
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 12 March 25 04:39 GMT (UK) »
When & where did they marry?
What information ALL OF IT is on the marriage certificate?

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Re: Name change? India
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 12 March 25 08:03 GMT (UK) »
Unfortuantely I cannot find a marriage record. However I have my their children's baptism records which list them as the parents. The earliest is my great grandmother Joan Marie Paes who was born and baptised On Feb 20th 1922 in Bangalore.

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Re: Name change? India
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 12 March 25 08:30 GMT (UK) »
You may already have this or it may not be relevant, but there is a T M Paes on a passenger list (occupation engineer). He leaves Liverpool on 2 Nov 1918 bound for Calcutta travelling 1st class. Portugal is listed as the country he is a subject or citizen of.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Name change? India
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 March 25 13:45 GMT (UK) »
Yes, thank you.

I have seen that record before. We knew he was an engineer in 1918, but unfortunately most of my relatives who knew my 2x great grandfather have already past away. However it was interesting to see that Portugal was listed as the country he was a subject or citizen of, but he was from Goa which was a Portuguese colony at the time.

The only other things we know about him was that his mother was a Hindu convert to catholicism as we managed to track down people who remembered her family. His father's family were apparently Portuguese-Indians so I guess it all makes sense.
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