I've started looking at another line, with a common surname, and I'm having problems finding a birth registration. I know the chap's exact DOB (12 June 1926) but not too sure of the place, nor his mother's maiden name. I am wondering if he was actually born out of wedlock, as his mother was only 17/18 at the time.
This chap has only ever been known to his family by one surname, and the info I have been given assumes that the man his mother was married to, is his father. But I am beginning to wonder.
If he was illegitimate, would there have had to be any formal documentation to change his surname to that of his mother's husband? I know in more modern times it would have been accepted practice for him to be formally adopted, or the birth re-registered to legitimise him. Would this also apply in the mid-late 1920's or were things pretty flexible then?
This chap has only ever been known to his family by one surname, and the info I have been given assumes that the man his mother was married to, is his father. But I am beginning to wonder.
If he was illegitimate, would there have had to be any formal documentation to change his surname to that of his mother's husband? I know in more modern times it would have been accepted practice for him to be formally adopted, or the birth re-registered to legitimise him. Would this also apply in the mid-late 1920's or were things pretty flexible then?
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