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Thread: Missing records!
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04-04-2011, 10:33 PM #51MontecarlolouGuest
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04-04-2011, 10:39 PM #52MontecarlolouGuest
The Emily Feist I found on earlier searches is in fact sister of the Henry I was directed to - I wonder if it's her and she used the name at the time as a bluff to 'protect' the real father. It says Harry on this marriage certificate. Pure supposition. Still, this is amazing. None of the family have been able to beat this one.
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04-04-2011, 10:47 PM #53MontecarlolouGuest
Fabulous - your title of demolition expert is well deserved!
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04-04-2011, 10:51 PM #54MontecarlolouGuest
My brother-in-law had already researched the family and this info has gone far and wide - I like to verify though and can't find John with Henry and Eliza. I think a mistake has been copied and copied...!
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04-04-2011, 11:14 PM #55Lizzy9Guest
It does sound like it, Lauren. Unfortunately this is more common than some realise. I'm pleased to hear you are a true researcher who doesn't accept unverified info.
Now you have supplied the witnesses names for John's marriage we can try to sort out Alice's family. Fingers crossed, eh!
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04-04-2011, 11:16 PM #56
Lauren,
It looks as though the other witness on the marriage certificate could be Alice, the younger sister of Mary Jane.
The only other thing I can think of to try and sort out the WEBB side of things, is to send for a copy of Alice Rebecca's death certificate. With a bit of luck, the sister she was visiting when she died (or maybe her sister's husband, if she was married) registered the death - that may then give us something else to look at. Of course, if John was also visiting, then he may have registered his wife's death.
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04-04-2011, 11:37 PM #57Lizzy9Guest
Yes, Lauren all our collective research points to John's mother Emily being the sister of Henry, and daughter of John and Jane.
I think the most plausible reason for John naming his father as Harry on the marriage certificate was to save embarrassment! Many illegitimate children invented a father's name at marriage maybe so as not to feel stigmatised, or it was merely less complicated as no explanation would have been necessary.
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04-04-2011, 11:39 PM #58Lizzy9Guest
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05-04-2011, 12:40 AM #59Lizzy9Guest
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05-04-2011, 5:49 PM #60MontecarlolouGuest
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