Theatrical family - missing

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Originally Posted by Lorraine Karen

I seem to remember reading an article about children being baptised to parents who were pretending to be married and being paid to keep quiet in the Kensington area in late Victorian times but alas can't find again, read a long, long time ago, just as starting this research and didn't realise the significance then.

But the children who you mention were also registered at the register office as though their parents were married too, weren't they? And long before they were baptised.