See if there was an Elizabeth Bayliss married to a THOMAS and death of a THOMAS before she married again. THat would confirm I am sure. Ken B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Foster" <andfos69@hotmail.com> To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:40 AM Subject: [B'ham] Stepfather query > Hi List, > > This may seem like a general query but it's firmly based in Birmingham > > My gg grandmother's married name was Elizabeth Burns. On each of her > children's birth certificates she is named as Elizabeth Burns, formerly > Thomas. I've got hold of her marriage certificate (23/6/1845) and she is > named, again, as Elizabeth Thomas, spinster, but her father is identified > as Samuel Bayliss. > > The question is, would her real father have been Thomas or Bayliss, and > which would have been the step-father? Does anybody know if there was a > convention in those days for what was written on marriage certificates? > > She was married at St Martin's - would the parish records give more > information? > > I suspect that she was out in service on the 1841 census and so there are > no clues to be found. > > Any help would be welcome. > > Andrew > _____________________________________________ > Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: > http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >