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OH has just got his Mum's Birth Cert which he's been hunting for years! He's over the moon because it's been quite a mystery. It now transpires she was given a third Christian name which none of the family knew about! So of course had hunted fruitlessly for years.
Two or three years before she died she suddenly revealed that she (insisted!) she was the daughter of an eminent businessman/MP. She stated that her name in the family Bible was wrong and she changed it herself! Her mother was a Housekeeper in a large house in London. Mum spoke of meeting Lloyd George and the like when she was small, but at age of 6 or 7 her mother became very ill and returned to family in Wales where she died.
OH and his sister more recently, on doing some research, realised that Mother had been born illegitimately. Apart from what Mother had said, there was, and still is, no indication who the father was, except this new evidence of a third Christian name.
I've suggested that this 3rd name could be a clue, a way of pointing the finger so-to-speak...... or that the old lady had been mistaken about the identity of her father, and that this name indicates someone else completely.
We've looked without much success for likely people with the name.
Can someone offer any other ideas?
The third surname is Douch....... there's no trace of it in OH's family background.
Two or three years before she died she suddenly revealed that she (insisted!) she was the daughter of an eminent businessman/MP. She stated that her name in the family Bible was wrong and she changed it herself! Her mother was a Housekeeper in a large house in London. Mum spoke of meeting Lloyd George and the like when she was small, but at age of 6 or 7 her mother became very ill and returned to family in Wales where she died.
OH and his sister more recently, on doing some research, realised that Mother had been born illegitimately. Apart from what Mother had said, there was, and still is, no indication who the father was, except this new evidence of a third Christian name.
I've suggested that this 3rd name could be a clue, a way of pointing the finger so-to-speak...... or that the old lady had been mistaken about the identity of her father, and that this name indicates someone else completely.
We've looked without much success for likely people with the name.
Can someone offer any other ideas?
The third surname is Douch....... there's no trace of it in OH's family background.
) - but I'm sure you know what I'm saying ;)
So I'll just have a hunt around on there and see if there's anything likely.
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