Oakum Picker
24-05-10, 08:16
That's 2 weeks on the trot I can't play.
In this case the title is not really applicable. My gm was the 2nd illegitimate child of 4 of my g-gm Agnes DOWNING. Her elder brother by 19 mths was named James Henry Day DOWNING which I feel indicates his father.
Interestingly on his marriage cert. he gives his father as William DOWNING the same as my gm. The 3rd child 7 yrs younger than gran has no father on her marriage cert. & the 4th, 10 yrs younger has Charles DOWNING as hers which is the same as Agnes' death cert. shows she is the widow of.
I have been through QS records & lived in hope that as gran wasn't baptised until she was in her 80's that she would come clean on that record but having persuaded someone to come & open the now defunct church which was just up the road from the Ipswich RO, found no such info.
In this case the title is not really applicable. My gm was the 2nd illegitimate child of 4 of my g-gm Agnes DOWNING. Her elder brother by 19 mths was named James Henry Day DOWNING which I feel indicates his father.
Interestingly on his marriage cert. he gives his father as William DOWNING the same as my gm. The 3rd child 7 yrs younger than gran has no father on her marriage cert. & the 4th, 10 yrs younger has Charles DOWNING as hers which is the same as Agnes' death cert. shows she is the widow of.
I have been through QS records & lived in hope that as gran wasn't baptised until she was in her 80's that she would come clean on that record but having persuaded someone to come & open the now defunct church which was just up the road from the Ipswich RO, found no such info.