Keeping it in the family *UPDATED - now with birth certs*

Originally Posted by samesizedfeet

Okay - so I probably need to be ordering birth certificates for Ellen Emma and Titus.

My curiosity is an expensive indulgence

Yes and then Edwin's birth cert too if you find that Ellen and Titus' has the same father's name I suppose we'd all like to see who Edwin's mother and especially his father is too.



Yes it can be quite expensive being very nosey like

If you want some money I'll happly contribute because I'm as curious as you, I'll send you £20 for the Higgs fund I really will.


Edit to say: you couldn't make it up if you tried, its not a big deal but its interesting, it is bluddy interesting, you wonder how these people survived and why.

[HarrysMum]

Throws a fiver at Zoe........................c'mon you can't stop now, girl....

[Nell]

That's what I love about genealogy, you get the cert to explain things and it just throws up more questions!

[Joan of Archives]

Aren't the two Henry Higgs' ocupations very different though & Higgs is a common name. Could there have been two Emmas with Henry as their father?

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Joan of Archives

Aren't the two Henry Higgs' ocupations very different though & Higgs is a common name. Could there have been two Emmas with Henry as their father?

But the 'two' Emmas had the same children with 'them' on succssive censuses, didn't they?

[Olde Crone]

Merry

I will say two words to you - parallel families, lol!

I still cannot fathom what would possess a brother and sister to marry. They must have known it was illegal and punishable by imprisonment.

OC

[Joan of Archives]

Well I know my 3 x great granddad married his niece so anything is possible lol!!

I do wonder if they would have got away with it though!

[HarrysMum]

But were Titus and Ellen Emma actually siblings???

They are called that on their childhood census, but how many errors/lies have others found???

Maybe they weren't related.

Ellen may have found she was her "grandfather's" child....she may not have been grandmother's child.

Does that make sense??
I don't think it's parallel families because of Ellen's children.

[Olde Crone]

Libby

No, I don't really think it is parallel families either, but I do think that either Ellen or Titus are not who they seem and they are not brother and sister.

I have one birth cert in my possession where my dim relative is completely overcome with stupidity in the Registrar's presence and gives the name of her own father as the father of her child. Fortunately, he had been dead a good while, so I was able to figure out what had happened.

I also agree - census information cannot be considered gospel truth

Some certs called for, I think!

OC

[samesizedfeet]

I could perhaps go with the parallel families thing if it wasn't for this child:

1871:
William Henry Shaw c1866 born Barbados

1881:
William Henry Higgs, son, c1866, Barbados