Yes, same as Fee......my gt.gt grandfathers sister never married but had one
child.....the father not named on the birth certificate, but went by the
surname of the father.....the mother was Rachel Harvey, whilst the son was
Daniel Anthony......he died aged 19 and was buried with his grandmother but
he was listed as nephew and not grandson......
Also full age was 21, but a couple could marry from the age of 14...up until
the law changed. When under the age of 21 they had to marry with the
consent of parents...but again they did not have to show a birth certificate
to prove their age, my grandmother in 1907 stated she was 21 when in fact
she was only 17.
Pauline
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---- Caliandris <caliandris(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I think full age was 21.
One of my elderly cousins was born as the result of rape. She has no
father shown
on her birth certificate. If the mother died in childbirth
without disclosing the father, or refused to identify the father, then a
child might have no father shown.
In cases where a child was born out of wedlock, I think the father had to
attend
the registration and agree to his name appearing on the certificate
as father.
I do not know what the conventions were as far as naming the baby was
concerned. I
have one family in Carmarthen where I can find no record of a
marriage and the mother continued to use her maiden name, but all the
children were given their father's surname. I can't find that they were
registered however... they were given the father's name on the census.
I think, as long as there was no fraud involved, the child could be named
whatever
the person registering chose to call them - some mother simply
handed on their own surname, others adopted the father's surname for the
child.
bws
~Fee~
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> Subject: [CMN-L] Facts!
> To: carmarthenshire(a)rootsweb.com
> Date: Sunday, 21 February, 2010, 13:40 In 1838
>
> 1 What was meant by full age?
>
> 2 If a bride had no father's name on a wedding certificate:
> illegitimate? "Workhouse"? Where did she get her surname from?
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