Genealogy Chat

Kat + Kate, I can't pin Mary down yet on 1851 but have asked for a look-up on Rootschat for 1841. - I have found Samuel Richardson on the 1851 - living as a Farm Labourer (Servant) In Byley cum Yatehouse - In the same Household is another servant - Ann CHESTERS - born c 1829 - NOT the one he married but possibly a sister to Elizabeth (his wife), and the reason for them meeting? Thanks to Peter Bennett - I have him also on 1841: HO107-121-18-Folio 5 Byley cum Yatehouse Middlewich John Richardson 31 ag lab Maria 33 Hannah 10 John 8 George 6 Samuel 4 Mary 1 Dea x P.S. - It gets worse - Just noticed on the 1851 - Samuel RICHARDSON's parents are in the household next door AND Samuel HICKTON (The one who married Mary CHESTERS ) is a few households away with his parents + siblings. I think I'm SINKING !! Dea

Hi Dee. Iv had this problem my grtgrtgrandfather Enock Shenton on the 1861 census. He is living at home with parents, then iv just found him living with Elizabeth a few streets away who he marries 2yrs later and iv checked and double checked they are the same person. Gill

Hi, I know this will not help your muddle-but I have two children registered twice-one by the Mother and one by the Father (ssh! looks like they were not married) Mother registered the child in her name and Father in his, but the reference number was the same, so I believe them to be the same child, and I have since managed to contact that childs son and he said his grandad was very cagey about any talk of marriage. So I guess it can happen. Jennifer.

Hi All, APPARENTLY, Flora RICHARDSON (down as daughter of Samuel Richardson) -was born in Warton and known as Flora Chesters? Anyway, this is VERY interesting as I looked up her birth and it was Registered June quarter 1859 as Flora KENT Chesters. When I found Samuel Richardson + Ann Chesters in 1851 - both as servants - the Head of the household was George KENT c 1805 (Lawton) !!!!!!!!! I have sent for the birth certificate and will see what 'goodies' that brings - I can't wait!!

Jenny - sorry, Dea, not trying to hijack your thread - do you have two separate birth certificates for the child you mention with different informant's names, or just two entries from the GRO index? Because if you have just found two entries (with matching reference numbers ) it is not necessarily that the child was registered twice by different people, just that the GRO index the birth registration twice if the child is 'illegitimate' but given the father's surname. (They will also index the entry under the mother's surname.) But only the one birth certificate! Kate.