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Anni
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For many years, I had been trying to unpick one of those family puzzles which are probably pretty unimportant in a family tree, but become something you just have to figure out 
It surrounds the birth of my 2nd cousin 4 times removed, who is also my 3rd cousin 3 times removed and the husband of my 3rd cousin 3 times removed in 1842/1843.
I always suspected he was illegitimate but as he was known by his father's name and popped up in a census living with his mother, all I needed to do was find a birth for him. And I never could. And I became slightly manic and obsessive about it - having to leave it and return to it periodically.
A few months ago, someone posted on here about the FamilySeach Beta site and I found him. Exactly as I had suspected and christened with his father's name as his 3rd christian name. His surname was his mother's unmarried name.
Curiousity has got the better of me again and I have been looking for his birth registration so I can order the certificate and see what it says on there.
But, I can't find it under any variation of any of the 4 names he has. He was born in the wilderness of Northumberland to a relatively well heeled family. His mother appears on a number of death certificates of the family. She certainly wasn't cast out or anything like that.
Is it possible that while he was christened, his birth wasn't registered? Has anyone else every found evidence of a child that wasn't registered?
I did consider that maybe being in the wilds of Northumberland nobody bothered much with legal trivialities, but all other births, marriages and deaths in the family were registered around this time, so that wouldn't explain the absence of a birth certificate.
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HerbSG
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Posted - 03/02/2011 : 04:34
I have seen the same person show on census as grandson at one address and as son on another entry. Obvious confusion as to who to include...people in the house at time of census...or people normally living in the house.
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 03/02/2011 : 06:39
Perhaps he was a Jack The Lad and ran off down the back street to get registerd twice?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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