Hi, I'm new here so hopefully I've posted in the correct place.......
Whilst researching my wife's tree we were initially stuck at the fact that an ancestor was seemingly missing from the 1911 census when she should really be on it, being born in 1903.
Having searched through records we finally came across both her marriage record and her birth record. Both listed her name as Doris Rogers Huteson.
On her birth certificate im the Sheffield records, her forenames were listed as Doris Rogers, with Huteson her surname, but no father was listed. Her mother was named as Annie. We assumed that the father was not known.
However, when looking at the marriage certificate to William Jennings Naylor, her father was listed as Joseph Rogers, with his occupation being shown as 'Traveller'.
Was there a rule that travellers could not be named on birth records? She obviously took her mother's surname, but they wanted to recognise the fact her father was a Rogers by including it as her middle name.
In addition to Doris on 1903, there was also as Joseph Rogers Huteson in 1905, so clearly if the father was travelling so to speak, he must have returned.
I cannot find any of Annie, Doris or Joseph on the 1911 census, certainly not under Huteson anyway. None of the Rogers entries seem to fit either. I can only assume they were of no fixed abode and part of the travelling community until Doris came back to be married in the 1920's.
Not really sure where we go from here.
Whilst researching my wife's tree we were initially stuck at the fact that an ancestor was seemingly missing from the 1911 census when she should really be on it, being born in 1903.
Having searched through records we finally came across both her marriage record and her birth record. Both listed her name as Doris Rogers Huteson.
On her birth certificate im the Sheffield records, her forenames were listed as Doris Rogers, with Huteson her surname, but no father was listed. Her mother was named as Annie. We assumed that the father was not known.
However, when looking at the marriage certificate to William Jennings Naylor, her father was listed as Joseph Rogers, with his occupation being shown as 'Traveller'.
Was there a rule that travellers could not be named on birth records? She obviously took her mother's surname, but they wanted to recognise the fact her father was a Rogers by including it as her middle name.
In addition to Doris on 1903, there was also as Joseph Rogers Huteson in 1905, so clearly if the father was travelling so to speak, he must have returned.
I cannot find any of Annie, Doris or Joseph on the 1911 census, certainly not under Huteson anyway. None of the Rogers entries seem to fit either. I can only assume they were of no fixed abode and part of the travelling community until Doris came back to be married in the 1920's.
Not really sure where we go from here.
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