susanx123
12-06-2008, 09:09 PM
My great gran Alice Hazelwood Smith was born 11/05/1888. at 33 Spencer St Coventry. Her birth cert also shows her mother Emma Smith is a domestic servent but there is no father's name
Am I right in assuming (much to the horror of my great aunts-Alice's daughters) that Emma may have not known who the father was or is there any other reason why she may not have named the father? and is there any way of finding him?
Later (not sure when) Emma met a man called George Moore and my great aunts are certain they were married because "people did in those days" and we called them granny & grandad Moore - Not concrete evidence I agree!
but I cannot find any evidence of a married on Free BMD unless I am looking in the wrong place- I'm fairly new to family history.
On 24/02/1906 Alice married Jonathan Batchelor and she gives her father's name as George Smith. Do you think this is her biological father or is it George Moore and she has used her name Smith so they have the same surmane to be respectable?
Alice also gives her address as 74 Eagle Street Coventry where Emma and George spent most of their "married life".
Emma lived there until her late 90's but again I cannot find a death cert for Emma Smith or Moore.
With Alice's unusual middle name Hazelwood- do you think this might be a reference to her father's name?
One of my great aunts hoped that Emma had married Alice's father and he died while she was pregnant and that is why she was unable to name him on the birth Cert. Is this possible?
Although we realise it is a simple case of Emma being a an unmarried mother but was it usual for her to bring up Alice on her own and how would she support her finanically?
As you probably guess I'm clutching at straws so I will be grateful for any
help to point me in the right direction.
thank you
Michelle.
Am I right in assuming (much to the horror of my great aunts-Alice's daughters) that Emma may have not known who the father was or is there any other reason why she may not have named the father? and is there any way of finding him?
Later (not sure when) Emma met a man called George Moore and my great aunts are certain they were married because "people did in those days" and we called them granny & grandad Moore - Not concrete evidence I agree!
but I cannot find any evidence of a married on Free BMD unless I am looking in the wrong place- I'm fairly new to family history.
On 24/02/1906 Alice married Jonathan Batchelor and she gives her father's name as George Smith. Do you think this is her biological father or is it George Moore and she has used her name Smith so they have the same surmane to be respectable?
Alice also gives her address as 74 Eagle Street Coventry where Emma and George spent most of their "married life".
Emma lived there until her late 90's but again I cannot find a death cert for Emma Smith or Moore.
With Alice's unusual middle name Hazelwood- do you think this might be a reference to her father's name?
One of my great aunts hoped that Emma had married Alice's father and he died while she was pregnant and that is why she was unable to name him on the birth Cert. Is this possible?
Although we realise it is a simple case of Emma being a an unmarried mother but was it usual for her to bring up Alice on her own and how would she support her finanically?
As you probably guess I'm clutching at straws so I will be grateful for any
help to point me in the right direction.
thank you
Michelle.