Thanks -- Gareth Jones ---- Caliandris <caliandris@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I think full age was 21. > > One of my elderly cousins was born as the result of rape. She has no father shown on her birth certificate. If the mother died in childbirth without disclosing the father, or refused to identify the father, then a child might have no father shown. > > In cases where a child was born out of wedlock, I think the father had to attend the registration and agree to his name appearing on the certificate as father. > > I do not know what the conventions were as far as naming the baby was concerned. I have one family in Carmarthen where I can find no record of a marriage and the mother continued to use her maiden name, but all the children were given their father's surname. I can't find that they were registered however... they were given the father's name on the census. > > I think, as long as there was no fraud involved, the child could be named whatever the person registering chose to call them - some mother simply handed on their own surname, others adopted the father's surname for the child. > bws > ~Fee~ > > --- On Sun, 21/2/10, gareth.jones797@ntlworld.com <gareth.jones797@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > From: gareth.jones797@ntlworld.com <gareth.jones797@ntlworld.com> > > Subject: [CMN-L] Facts! > > To: carmarthenshire@rootsweb.com > > Date: Sunday, 21 February, 2010, 13:40 > > In 1838 > > > > 1 What was meant by full age? > > > > 2 If a bride had no father's name on a wedding certificate: > > illegitimate? "Workhouse"? Where did she get her surname > > from? > > -- > > Gareth Jones > > http://www.DyfedFreeGen.info > > http://www.free-genealogy-online.info > > http://www.carmarthenshirefhs.info > > Welcome to Carmarthenshire Mailing List......... > > > > > > carmarthenshire@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARMARTHENSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > > subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > http://www.DyfedFreeGen.info > http://www.free-genealogy-online.info > http://www.carmarthenshirefhs.info > Welcome to Carmarthenshire Mailing List......... > > > carmarthenshire@rootsweb.com > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARMARTHENSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message