If you don't find a name on the baptism, it could be worth  looking at church meetings, this was were I found my  missing father.     Also court records can some times throw up something.    Cathy Girl from the most likley place in England --- On Sun, 3/10/10, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: [YORKSHIRE] missing fathers To: ENG-YORKSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 23:40 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: yvonnewalkley Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.yks.general/15655/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi,I wonder if anyone can confirm that if you have no father on a birth cert that you can sometime get it from church records if the child as been christened? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-YORKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 4 Oct 2010 at 10:16, Cathy Trewhitt wrote: >   >  If you don't find a name on the baptism, it could be worth >  looking at church meetings, this was were I found my >  missing father. >   >   Also court records can some times throw up something. > Women who gave birth to an illegitimate child quite often offer a clue to the father if they give the child an unusual or uncommon middle forename - especially if it happens to be a surname. This was their way of telling the world who the errant father was! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE