1850s records Wallsend or Willington - THOMPSON, LILLEY
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Re: 1850s records Wallsend or Willington - THOMPSON, LILLEY
 BryanHoggarth
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Posted: 5 Apr 2008 5:47PM GMT |
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Thanks for the response ELLinSpain.
I do have the marriage certificate you mention and it seems to be the correct one. I also have the birth certificates for each daughter and their marriage or death certificates which show that after their mother Margaret THOMPSON was married they used the LILLEY surname.
If you look on FreeBMD you can see that I have added "postems" which give the details of the certificates. This might save someone else buying a "wrongeun".
The Isabella born in 1858 10b 101 I also obtained while searching for the right one. She had a father called Thomas THOMPSON and therefore is not related.
It is the baptism records or maybe some local officials records which I need as they might give an idea of who the fathers of Margaret THOMPSONs children were. The baptism record for the first daughter Margaret Ellen I did find in the IGI and it seems unhelpful but the IGI often does not show the whole information available.
Since the records for the baptism (if they were baptised as the first daughter Margaret Ellen was) are probably limited to the standardised forms we're unlikely to find a comment by some helpful vicar with some words like "bastard child of Fred Blogs" but one can but hope.
What's odd to me about GG Gmam Margaret THOMPSON having illegitimate children is not that she had one (quite common) but that she had three over a period of 5 or six years. How was she keeping a job under those circumstances? Who was looking after the babies while she worked?
Bryan
Dursley, GLS, UK
I do have the marriage certificate you mention and it seems to be the correct one. I also have the birth certificates for each daughter and their marriage or death certificates which show that after their mother Margaret THOMPSON was married they used the LILLEY surname.
If you look on FreeBMD you can see that I have added "postems" which give the details of the certificates. This might save someone else buying a "wrongeun".
The Isabella born in 1858 10b 101 I also obtained while searching for the right one. She had a father called Thomas THOMPSON and therefore is not related.
It is the baptism records or maybe some local officials records which I need as they might give an idea of who the fathers of Margaret THOMPSONs children were. The baptism record for the first daughter Margaret Ellen I did find in the IGI and it seems unhelpful but the IGI often does not show the whole information available.
Since the records for the baptism (if they were baptised as the first daughter Margaret Ellen was) are probably limited to the standardised forms we're unlikely to find a comment by some helpful vicar with some words like "bastard child of Fred Blogs" but one can but hope.
What's odd to me about GG Gmam Margaret THOMPSON having illegitimate children is not that she had one (quite common) but that she had three over a period of 5 or six years. How was she keeping a job under those circumstances? Who was looking after the babies while she worked?
Bryan
Dursley, GLS, UK