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Elizabeth Youle
Not always!!? Many years ago a young lady from Somerset ended up in Kent working at a school. She had twins, a boy and a girl, the father was the head master.? She kept the girl and had her registered in the district where she was living.? The father took the boy and registered him in another district and in the following quarter.? He then had the boy adopted.? All would have been well until by chance, when the children grew up, they happened to be with friends in a pub.? The girl had always been told she had a twin.? A discussion started and the twins suddenly realised they must be related.? DNA eventually proved they were right.? It took some time to work out what their father had done. He firmly believed by registering the boy in a different registration district with different quarters, they would never find each other.
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The number of times I've found girls giving false names when registering births. A young girl gave birth in Long Ashton (just outside Bristol) in the Work House. Her mother had an upmarket guest house in Clifton, Bristol.? She didn't want it known that her daughter was having an illegimate child so they decided to "invent" a surname. They chose the name of a village in Scotland where both mother and daughter came from - Fintr(a)y.? Mother wanted to adopt her granddaughter but she didn't have a husband. No problem, she went to another workhouse and took an old man called SHEARN and married him, he was 75 and she was over 50. They adopted her baby granddaughter. As it was 1895 there was no legitimate adoption. Sadly, the old gentleman died a couple of years later and the gran died when the child was 7.? She had been left enough money but the child's real mother took the money and put the child back in a workhouse.? I met the little child's daughter who had been told that if anyone could find the truth, it was me!!? She was a lovely lady living in an Alms house in Paul, Cornwall.? It was a real pleasure to help her and then to find that she was a 1x3 cousin of my ganddaughter was an added bonus. She sadly died in 2012. Liz On 12/09/2023 15:27, Nivard Ovington wrote:
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