Hi again Jane Pressed send too quick. I meant to amend the mail to point out that you said that Harold was registered as HALL in 1910, yet Harold S SPROSON is clearly registered in Chorlton 1911. Mar Q Lin On 16/06/2012 21:45, Lin wrote: > Hi Jane > > I think I have solved your mystery. > > Harold S SPROSON birth reg, as you say in 1911 Chorlton, > > According to British Columbia Death Index 1872-1990, Harold Stott > SPROSON died 8 Sep 1878, New Westminster, BC, Canada aged 67. > > So with that information - (see my earlier e-mail) - I believe that > Bertha's maiden name was STOTT but she married under her previous > surname HALL. > > There is a marriage of Albert HALL to Bertha STOTT 1903 Dec Q, > Prestwich. If Bertha was still married to Albert this may be why she > put 7 years as being married (ie to Albert). > > Harold sailed for Canada on 14 Apr 1930 aged 19 - details of his > father tally with 1911 census. > > Lin > > On 15/06/2012 22:01, Jane Woodall wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> Just wondering – when registering a birth c 1910-1915 – did the >> parent have to produce a marriage certificate to prove the child was >> not illegitimate? >> >> I’m trying to help a friend trace her family tree in Manchester. Her >> great grandfather Arthur Sproson is on the 1911 census with ‘wife’ >> Bertha and baby Harold saying they had been married a year. Harold >> was registered in 1910 as Hall, Bertha’s maiden name and the couple >> didn’t actually marry until 1915. >> >> Bertha died in 1921 and Arthur remarried to Louisa Kilpatrick, who >> had an illegitimate daughter Nora Kilpatrick around 1906. Arthur and >> Louisa soon had a son Albert – and in addition to Harold and Louisa’s >> daughter, he had two other half-siblings Ida and Arthur. The only >> ones I can find are Ida and Arthur Sproson, 1912 and 1915 – mother’s >> maiden name Stott... but I can’t find a Sproson –Stott marriage. >> There are two Stott women in Prestwich in the 1911 census – one I can >> find a marriage for, the other, Sybil, I can’t find a marriage for. >> >> As Arthur and Bertha didn’t marry till 1915, it is possible he left >> her and had two children with the Stott lady... but am I right in >> thinking as they were registered as Sproson the parents must have >> been married and proved that when registering them? Or could Sybil?? >> Stott go along and claim to be Mrs Sproson and register the two >> children under their father’s name? >> >> Hope that makes sense""! >> >> thanks in anticipation >> >> Jane >> >> ..... >> Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; >> www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; >> www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >