Has anyone else come across the situation where it appears that an illegitimate child has been baptised by their grandparents?
I have a couple of cases where I'm pretty sure this has happened. One example
Thomas Harrid (1788) and Mary Perkins (1787) have a Daughter Ann (1812).
I think Ann has 2 children out of wedlock before she marries Joseph Matthews in 1840
John Harrad in 1832 and Sarah Harrad in 1837.
In 1841 John and Sarah are living in the same household as Thomas and Mary
In 1851 John and Sarah are living in the same household as Ann and Joseph, with a relationship to the Head (Jospeh) as "Wife's Son and Wife's Daughter"
Sarah states she is Illegitimate on her marriage certificate, and there is a matching Baptism record which lists Ann as her mother - no father.
However there is a Baptism record for John (1932) on Family Search with Thomas and Mary as his parents. Mary would have been 47 years old when she had John, so it is possible.
I'm more inclined to believe the 1851 census, partly because I have a similar case in another part of my tree.
The other case is based on oral history. My grandmother always insisted that her "brother" wasn't really her brother, although the records show him has being registered as a child of her parents (my great grand=parents). My grandmother maintained that he was really the illegitimate child of her mother's younger sister who became pregnant while working as a servant in a large house and that her parents took this child in and "adopted" him.
I was therefore wondering if others had come across this situation?
Nigel
I have a couple of cases where I'm pretty sure this has happened. One example
Thomas Harrid (1788) and Mary Perkins (1787) have a Daughter Ann (1812).
I think Ann has 2 children out of wedlock before she marries Joseph Matthews in 1840
John Harrad in 1832 and Sarah Harrad in 1837.
In 1841 John and Sarah are living in the same household as Thomas and Mary
In 1851 John and Sarah are living in the same household as Ann and Joseph, with a relationship to the Head (Jospeh) as "Wife's Son and Wife's Daughter"
Sarah states she is Illegitimate on her marriage certificate, and there is a matching Baptism record which lists Ann as her mother - no father.
However there is a Baptism record for John (1932) on Family Search with Thomas and Mary as his parents. Mary would have been 47 years old when she had John, so it is possible.
I'm more inclined to believe the 1851 census, partly because I have a similar case in another part of my tree.
The other case is based on oral history. My grandmother always insisted that her "brother" wasn't really her brother, although the records show him has being registered as a child of her parents (my great grand=parents). My grandmother maintained that he was really the illegitimate child of her mother's younger sister who became pregnant while working as a servant in a large house and that her parents took this child in and "adopted" him.
I was therefore wondering if others had come across this situation?
Nigel
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