Hi
thanks to the 1911 census I have found my great grandmother. She was a servant living in London and was still at the same address in 1916 when my nan was born. She never married so we have no clues about who my nans father is.
Does anyone think it likely that the "man of the house" was my nans father? My great nans address is still the same house on the birth certificate, but my nan was born in the May and he died the following december (or that quarter).
Unfortunatly the birth records do not survive for the workhouse my nan was born in, so i cant find out any more information. My nan was sent to live with her grandparents in Suffolk until the mid 1920's when they died. Her mum was still working in London and so my nan went back to her as i guess she was then of "working" age.
I guess i have a few questions really:
how likely is that that after my g nan got pregnant they kept her on in the house if it was just any old boy that had got her in that situation? However would this man of money let his illigitimate child be born in a workhouse?
She was 44 when my nan was born. by all accounts her one and only child, if she was promiscuous (sp?) surely there would have been others? If there were why was my nan the only one to go to her grandparents (unless of course they died at birth or very early). If she was with only one man, then why not marry him? I understand she may not have been the "marrying" type, but surely that is better than to live with the stigma of being an unmarried mother?
The only child of the marriage of the house owners (at the time) was 8, so too young for it to be him but there were also no other children either alive or otherwise for the family. None also born after 1911 on FreeBMD.
I understand that all these are just complete guess work and we will never know who her father was, i just wonder about probabilities. My eldest aunt is in her 70's so perhaps the fact that this man was German, or anything else i can find might spark some kind of memory of my nan ever mentioning something to her.
thanks for your help
thanks to the 1911 census I have found my great grandmother. She was a servant living in London and was still at the same address in 1916 when my nan was born. She never married so we have no clues about who my nans father is.
Does anyone think it likely that the "man of the house" was my nans father? My great nans address is still the same house on the birth certificate, but my nan was born in the May and he died the following december (or that quarter).
Unfortunatly the birth records do not survive for the workhouse my nan was born in, so i cant find out any more information. My nan was sent to live with her grandparents in Suffolk until the mid 1920's when they died. Her mum was still working in London and so my nan went back to her as i guess she was then of "working" age.
I guess i have a few questions really:
how likely is that that after my g nan got pregnant they kept her on in the house if it was just any old boy that had got her in that situation? However would this man of money let his illigitimate child be born in a workhouse?
She was 44 when my nan was born. by all accounts her one and only child, if she was promiscuous (sp?) surely there would have been others? If there were why was my nan the only one to go to her grandparents (unless of course they died at birth or very early). If she was with only one man, then why not marry him? I understand she may not have been the "marrying" type, but surely that is better than to live with the stigma of being an unmarried mother?
The only child of the marriage of the house owners (at the time) was 8, so too young for it to be him but there were also no other children either alive or otherwise for the family. None also born after 1911 on FreeBMD.
I understand that all these are just complete guess work and we will never know who her father was, i just wonder about probabilities. My eldest aunt is in her 70's so perhaps the fact that this man was German, or anything else i can find might spark some kind of memory of my nan ever mentioning something to her.
thanks for your help
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