Andrew, I would say her birth name would have been BAYLISS. I have one exactly the same in 1864but on their first born child birth cert It reads Mary Ann to John BURBANK and Fanny Mary BURBANK Late HARRISON formerly KNOWLES which made her birth name as KNOWLES 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 >