Hi Anne Thanks for this. I'll have another look at COWDREY, see if I can glean anything from her details. This is part of my one-name-study, and unfortunately financial restraints means no more certs for the moment. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Capewell" <alc_goytre@hotmail.com> To: "SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com" <sussex-plus-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [SXP] Louisa Fanny GRINYER b1859 & Father William John CLARK > Hi Andy, > > > > Have you got a copy of the marriage cert? There is no guarnatee that what > you see online is an exact transcription of the register. On FreeBMD > Louisa has been recorded as Lorina Fanny Grinye(a)r Sep qtr Brighton vol > 2b page 341 > > > > William John Clark may or may not be her actual father. There are a number > of possibilities: > > 1. Louisa's mother remarried but Louisa did not take her step father's > name > > 2. Louisa's mother did not marry William Clark but Louisa wanted to name > him on the cert > > 3. Louisa was a widow - on FreeBMD there is a Lourina Fanny Cowdrey and a > Benjamin Grinyer Sep qtr 1877 Brighton vol 2b page 294 > > 4. Something even more complicated! > > > > My gx3 grandmother was not with her husband in 1841 but was apparently > living with another man. She did not have his surname but her children did > (they were not his children). Originally I thought that it was just a > mistake on the census but the children subsequently seemed to swap between > the surnames and some got married with their original name and others with > the second man's name. My gx2 grandmother whilst using her original > surname to marry named her father as a mixture of the second man's > forename and her actual father's surname. Nightmare to trace. > > > > My ggrandfather on the other side was illegitimate, was given up by his > mother to her brother and clearly regarded him as his father. Obviously > the surname was not an issue but his real father was named on his birth > cert. > > > > I think that you may have to invest in a few certificates to try and > unravel this one. > > > > hth, Anne > > > >> From: andy701@blueyonder.co.uk >> To: SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com >> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:20:28 +0100 >> Subject: [SXP] Louisa Fanny GRINYER b1859 & Father William John CLARK >> >> Hi all >> >> Alfred HEDGECOCK marries Louisa Fanny GRINYER on 10th Jul 1881 at St >> Peter, Brighton. Details taken from Source Citation: Place: Brighton, >> Sussex, England; Collection: St Peter; -; Date Range: 1876 - 1881; Film >> Number: 1067138, on Ancestry. >> >> Louisa's details are that she's 22, and father is William John CLARK. >> >> Alfred's death is registered in Dec 1881. >> >> I cannot find any details other than what I have here for Louisa, nor any >> reference to any children. No marriage of a CLARK to a GRINYER can be >> found. >> >> If anyone can provide any pointers for Louisa I'll be very grateful. >> >> Many thanks >> Andy >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message