Hi all Looking for some help, by way of explanation, of a couple of birth re-registrations for a couple of my family members. Two members of a family were born out of wedlock, so as is the case each of these two children bore their mother's maiden surname at birth. These births occurred in the early 1900s. The father subsequently married the mother, shortly after the birth of the 2nd child. In 1935, the births of these two children were re-registered by the father, with him indicating that he was the father, i.e he re-registered them with his surname. On what grounds under English law, at that time, (1935), could the initial birth registrations of these children be overturned; from mother's maiden surname to father's surname??? Nivard (and anyone ) can you please offer me your wisdom on this matter? eddie tricker Australia

Hi Eddie Re the Acts Parliament relevant to Civil Registration (and more besides) see :- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/actind.htm But as with all things they are open to a certain amount of interpretation depending upon the individual person applying the law They can be heavy reading :-( The following goes some way to explain what you should find on various Certificates and why http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/indexbd.htm But the original birth registrations were not overturned, they will still be there , where there is a change or addition there will be a new registration at that time For them to reregister the births under the fathers & mothers names they would both have to be present, in the original case if the mother went on her own and was asked if she was married and answered no, the Registrar should not have entered the fathers details (name and occupation) even if they were living together as man and wife In the years up to about the last 40 or so there was little asked (if anything) in the way of proof, so if a mother turned up and said she was married that was taken as such The reasons for the later registration could be many, to legitimise the births, for removing doubt over inheritance, the father wanting to claim paternity etc These days there is a statutory declaration form which the party registering the birth can give to the Registrar but I don't think that came in much before the 1980's Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi all > > Looking for some help, by way of explanation, of a couple of birth > re-registrations for a couple of my family members. > > Two members of a family were born out of wedlock, so as is the case > each of these two children bore their mother's maiden surname at > birth. These births occurred in the early 1900s. > > The father subsequently married the mother, shortly after the birth > of the 2nd child. > > In 1935, the births of these two children were re-registered by the > father, with him indicating that he was the father, i.e he > re-registered them with his surname. > > On what grounds under English law, at that time, (1935), could the > initial birth registrations of these children be overturned; from > mother's maiden surname to father's surname??? > > Nivard (and anyone ) can you please offer me your wisdom on this matter? > > eddie tricker > Australia

A interesting one Eddie .my son was born out of wedlock almost 25 yrs ago now ,we had him re registered as he would not have had a claim on house ect in event of my husband out living me.. But son born after marriage would have . not sure how things would have gone in 1900. i shall watch with interest . Jean On 10 October 2010 12:37, Eddie Tricker <etricker@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > Hi all > > Looking for some help, by way of explanation, of a couple of birth > re-registrations for a couple of my family members. > > Two members of a family were born out of wedlock, so as is the case > each of these two children bore their mother's maiden surname at > birth. These births occurred in the early 1900s. > > The father subsequently married the mother, shortly after the birth > of the 2nd child. > > In 1935, the births of these two children were re-registered by the > father, with him indicating that he was the father, i.e he > re-registered them with his surname. > > On what grounds under English law, at that time, (1935), could the > initial birth registrations of these children be overturned; from > mother's maiden surname to father's surname??? > > Nivard (and anyone ) can you please offer me your wisdom on this matter? > > eddie tricker > Australia > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The Legitimacy Act 1926 The Act allowed children to be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of their parents, provided that neither parent had been married to a third party at the time of the birth. When this occurred the legitimised birth was re-entered in the birth indexes for that year (sometimes many years after the original birth). The original entry would be annotated to refer to the new entry. Adrian