SNIPPET: From the Nov 1995 issue of the genealogical "Family Tree Magazine" published in England, comes this bit of miscellany. Per Tom WOOD's column - "I never cease to be amazed at some of the Christian names parents choose for their offspring, especially these days, but unusual ones are nothing new and I always think it helps research if you do find an ancestor with something out of the ordinary. Sometimes I feel sorry for children lumbered with unappealing Christian names and remember an older boy at one of my schools who had been burdened with his mother's maiden name of SMELT as a second Christian name. Most of his contemporaries found this very amusing and he was the object of a great deal of distressing so-called schoolboy humour. But what, I wonder, did two of the four listed daughters of the Reverend Joseph ADDERLEY think about their names which appeared on an Irish census return for 1901? There they are listed as "Queen Victoria Committed Perjury 1869 ADDERLEY," a scholar aged 11 born in Limerick County, and "Queen Victoria died a Perjurer ADDERLEY," a scholar aged 10 born in Limerick County. Mr. R. H. J. HAYWARD of Wellington in Somerset came across this census return, which the Reverend ADDERLEY completed himself on the night of Sunday 31 March 1901, containing a long statement about these two entries. Apparently the Reverend ADDERLEY, recorded as a "Church of Ireland Catholic Clerk in Holy Orders," felt that Queen Victoria had perjured herself by conferring the Royal Assent on an Act of Parliament passed in 1869 which disestablished the Church of Ireland from 1870. It seems he felt that this was a violation of her Coronation Oath and she should have abdicated rather than endorse the Act. To make matters worse, the District Registrar had refused to accept the girls "given names" when they were entered in a like manner on the 1891 Irish census. By the time the 1901 census was taken, Queen Victoria had died and the British were awaiting the coronation of King Edward VII in August 1902. As Mr. HAYWARD observes, it would seem that the Reverend ADDERLEY had allowed ! his venom to build up over many years. Part of his census text reads as follows: "I have been lately informed that the District Registrar, abusing professional confidence, in my absence and by his representations, procured the signature of Queen Victoria died a Perjurer's mother to some name or other which he had already inserted in his register illegally and without authorization. (Presumably this was done on the 1891 census return.) The late Queen, while it was her power to choose abdication or Perjury, unhappy for herself and family (the only blot on her conduct) and seduced as I suppose by the plausible sophistry & devilish subtlety of GLADSTONE, in violation of her Coronation Oath (in as much as the spoliation could not be affected without her previous consent) did assent to the spoliation of the Church of Ireland. I defy any power to control my natural right to name my children or to take advantage of the disgraceful trickery practised upon me, and relying on the omnipotence of Truth, I challenge the Authorities to do their utmost. Whatever co! urse may be resolved upon by the Queen's successor - whether he dispenses entirely with a Coronation Ceremony or has a Coronation Ceremony with the Oath omitted and unchanged or changed, his action must inevitable be equivalent to his branding his mother as a Perjurer..." Mr. WOOD states, "What an outburst! The District Registrar, Prime Minister GLADSTONE, two sovereigns and even the mother (his wife?) of "Queen Victoria died a perjurer" all come under fire. - and perhaps that is why his wife wasn't at home on census night with the rest of the family! How awful to go through life with a selection of names like those. However I can't help wondering if the actual records of Irish civil registration may tell a different story and perhaps they were merely "noms de guerre" chosen in anger to make a point? " Ward calls them "unfor given" names.....hmmm, strange story.