My great grandmother x2 one Frances Hares (Spelt Haers on marriage cert), from Shipham in Somerset is a true mystery and one which I am unable to fathom.
Her fathers given name on marriage cert is Thomas (from Shipham).
I now have a contact, who appears to have done some considerable research on the Hares of Shipham, of which there are an abundant number.
Many according to my contact, who are called Thomas and all appear to be cousins!!!! Yet none of same, having had a daughter named Frances!!!
The contact has now put forward the theory that my Frances is in fact the daughter of one Robert Hares of Shipham, who died when Frances was very young.
My question is, is it likely that in 1849 when Frances married, she would have given her father's name as Thomas........due to the fact that this may have been the person who raised her........OR, regardless of the fact that her real father may have died, she should/could have put her true fathers name down???
I don't know if you will get this gist of this.......but it is confusing the heck out of me lol!??
Her fathers given name on marriage cert is Thomas (from Shipham).
I now have a contact, who appears to have done some considerable research on the Hares of Shipham, of which there are an abundant number.
Many according to my contact, who are called Thomas and all appear to be cousins!!!! Yet none of same, having had a daughter named Frances!!!
The contact has now put forward the theory that my Frances is in fact the daughter of one Robert Hares of Shipham, who died when Frances was very young.
My question is, is it likely that in 1849 when Frances married, she would have given her father's name as Thomas........due to the fact that this may have been the person who raised her........OR, regardless of the fact that her real father may have died, she should/could have put her true fathers name down???
I don't know if you will get this gist of this.......but it is confusing the heck out of me lol!??
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