Genealogy Chat

wow sylvia Am dead impressed! Wonder why they left it that long?!! the lies they used to tell also, I have one couple who married three years after their daughter was born, but the mother is down as already being married!!

Fuzzy And some folk didn't even bother to get married, they just pretended. Not to mention all those late babies who were really grandchildren of the person they called 'mother'. I don't think you can really be a proper family historian unless you've found a few skeletons. I've got relatives in prison, lunatic asylums and a few illegitimates. One of my favourites is described on the census as 'love child' (aah!) nell

My lot can easily beat that! Ist child born 1876 last child born 1895 Married 1896 a few months before the mother died! 20 years of 'living in sin' and seven children. Sylvia.

I asked fellow GR members to trace this marriage sometime ago, they looked like I had but to no avail. Yesterday I found it!! This is why I want to share it with you; it may be helpful to relatively new people like me. William Franklin and Sarah Parker, both born in Bristol. First child was born in Bristol in 1840. That is where I started my search. Nothing Second child was born in Kent in 1845. Looked at every Franklin marriage in that area. Nothing! Third child was born in Brighton in 1849. Again nothing. Fourth child was born in Lambeth in Surrey in 1851, I checked all the Franklin marriages again, and Lo and Behold there they were, getting married in Lambeth in 1851, Eleven years after their first child was born. She even had herself down as Mrs Sarah Franklin on the 1851 census, when she was not yet married. Trollop!!! So again, we warned peeps, if you cannot trace a marriage, it may well be that it took place not just after the first child but after several children. Hope this has been of help to someone

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