I have been looking for the birth of Emma Waters b1856 in Sulgrave since I started researching.I have the birth certs of her illegitimate children born before she married Thomas Tyrrell in 1890 and I have seen various census where she is always named as Emma Waters from the first one after her birth in 1861 when she would have been only 6yrs old until she married in 1890 then until her death she is always Emma Tyrrell.
Finally yesterday I received her death cert and low and behold she is named as "Mary Ann Tyrrell otherwise Emma Tyrrell,"I had seen a Mary Ann Waters ,which would have been her real maiden name but discounted it as she had a sister named Mary Hannah born in 1862, I know children were sometimes given the same name if a sibling had died but Mary Ann [Emma] was still alive and didn't die till 1941 .
I have now sent for the birth cert but has any one else come across such a situation where "otherwise" has been put on a death cert or two sisters both alive have had the same first name.I'm half wondering if she was born a Waters or may have been a Tyrrell and taken in and brought up by the Waters family,hopefully when the birth cert arrives it will clear the mystery up.
Hana
Finally yesterday I received her death cert and low and behold she is named as "Mary Ann Tyrrell otherwise Emma Tyrrell,"I had seen a Mary Ann Waters ,which would have been her real maiden name but discounted it as she had a sister named Mary Hannah born in 1862, I know children were sometimes given the same name if a sibling had died but Mary Ann [Emma] was still alive and didn't die till 1941 .
I have now sent for the birth cert but has any one else come across such a situation where "otherwise" has been put on a death cert or two sisters both alive have had the same first name.I'm half wondering if she was born a Waters or may have been a Tyrrell and taken in and brought up by the Waters family,hopefully when the birth cert arrives it will clear the mystery up.
Hana
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