Info on certs?
On a marriage cert. in the ‘father’s profession’ column it says ‘deceased’.
Would this have been checked by the registrar (or someone in authority) or could it just be made up by the son/daughter? thank you |
You don't say when this was, but generally No, no checks would be made.
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Having said that, I have hundreds of marriage certs in my files and I've not got any that say dec'd for the father when he wasn't! Quite a few the other way about where the father is not recorded as dec'd but he was, but that's probably generally where the celebrant didn't ask the question about dead or alive.
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Could be the bride or groom had been told by their mother that their father was dead although he wasn't really.
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Hmmmmm ... well it’s Herbert Edwin Crawford, who appears on Gramps’ 1920 marriage cert as Gramps’ father.
Herbert remains a mystery. Gramps was the illegitimate son of Anne/Annie Green and started life as John Isaac Green. After the 1911 census and before enlisting in the Marines in 1914, he changed his name to Richard Crawford. No father is mentioned on his birth cert. |
Par for the course in my family! No one wanted to let the inlaws know they were illegitimate, so they invented a conveniently dead father for the marriage certificate.
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Oh poooo That’s not very helpful of them :( |
It's always possible he was a real person - maybe Herbert should have been Albert or Bertram or Edwin should have been Edward etc.
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I know I should remember all this, but I don't. Did Annie Green ever marry?
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Yes.
She married George Tucker in 1901. They went on to have a family and I assume lived happily ever after. She was working as a domestic servant for Isaac Birnbaum. The Birnbaum family was from Poland, which was then part of Russia. |
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