Which certificates, if any, would you believe if births and marriages give different fathers, but circumstantial evidence points to another man?
My friend is researching Sarah Elizabeth RUDD and James BELCHAMBER who married in Whitby in 1883.
GRO has this marriage also as Thomas BELCHAMBER, but a local copy shows he signed James.
They supposedly had several children, but birth certificates show that no father was named for the 2nd and 4th born.
James is named again on the birth certificates of the next 3 children born in 1901, 1903 and 1906 even though these children all carry the forename PEARSON which just happens to be Sarah's lodger in 1901.
Sarah refers to herself as married, but James( never with Sarah in a census ) is living at the home of his daughter Euphemia from his 1st marriage and says he is widowed.
My friend is researching Sarah Elizabeth RUDD and James BELCHAMBER who married in Whitby in 1883.
GRO has this marriage also as Thomas BELCHAMBER, but a local copy shows he signed James.
They supposedly had several children, but birth certificates show that no father was named for the 2nd and 4th born.
James is named again on the birth certificates of the next 3 children born in 1901, 1903 and 1906 even though these children all carry the forename PEARSON which just happens to be Sarah's lodger in 1901.
Sarah refers to herself as married, but James( never with Sarah in a census ) is living at the home of his daughter Euphemia from his 1st marriage and says he is widowed.
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