Durham Lady
09-04-16, 15:07
I've just received the birth certificate for Mary Ellen JOBES who is an illegitimate child of one of my great aunts and born 1879.
Apart from the awful hand writing, nothing new there, it's unusual in that it has a father's name, Edward McNulty, which is crossed out.
Mary Ellen's mother Sarah didn't marry this man and on the 1891 census records Mary E had her step father's surname, Hobman. I became suspicious when I realised she was born a couple of years before her mother's marriage. Interestingly I found an Edward McNulty living in the same area and the right age to be ME's father, his mother was named Ellen and Sarah's mother was Mary. I love solving mimi mysteries.
http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh574/Malverngirl/Mary%20Ellen%20JOBES%20%201879_zpsdlewtbbs.jpg (http://s1252.photobucket.com/user/Malverngirl/media/Mary%20Ellen%20JOBES%20%201879_zpsdlewtbbs.jpg.htm l)
Apart from the awful hand writing, nothing new there, it's unusual in that it has a father's name, Edward McNulty, which is crossed out.
Mary Ellen's mother Sarah didn't marry this man and on the 1891 census records Mary E had her step father's surname, Hobman. I became suspicious when I realised she was born a couple of years before her mother's marriage. Interestingly I found an Edward McNulty living in the same area and the right age to be ME's father, his mother was named Ellen and Sarah's mother was Mary. I love solving mimi mysteries.
http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh574/Malverngirl/Mary%20Ellen%20JOBES%20%201879_zpsdlewtbbs.jpg (http://s1252.photobucket.com/user/Malverngirl/media/Mary%20Ellen%20JOBES%20%201879_zpsdlewtbbs.jpg.htm l)