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Angela

1927 saw the Legitimacy Act (bit of a pet subject of mine)

This meant that a child of parents who had not been married, to each other, at their birth and subsequently married could legitimise the child. But this was subject to strict conditions.

Fully explained here...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/1926legitAct.htm

In 1868 if the parents were not married then the father should not have been named.

A good general explanation of the legal requirements for the historical registration of births can be found here...

http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm

Chris

It's such a minefield... this legitimacy.

...but still to this day when i see one on the parish records i tut and suck the teeth.. yet i am living the same life.

How times change!!

Tracey

it's quite funny really - how when we see an illegitimate child from the 1800's we are quite shocked and yet its an everyday occurrance now and people don't bat an eyelid

I know that I was shocked when Tracey found my G/grandmother and it turned out she was illegitimate

hi to everyone,
i was previously married and after we split i went back to using my maiden name and when i got married again i did so under my maiden name and did not have to give my previos name i dont know weather that was because there were no children or not also i havent listed my previous name in my family tree as i said because there were no children noone will want to trace him will they?

Patricia,

Actually i believe you should have remarried with your married name and not your maiden name...!!

You actually have to prove your previous marriage was annulled/dissolved before you can remarry.

Did you tell them you were previously married? are you declared as a divorcee on your second cert, as should be the case? or are you wrongly classed as a spinster?

I'm sure there is a legal eagle here who could shed more light o this one..lol

Hmm...interesting one!

Tracey

My mother-in-law has just split from her 3rd husband, her second husband died, and to cut a long story short she wanted to go back to her second husband's surname but to do so she had to change her name by deed poll.
Angela

Hi ,all
I got married,2nd time,in the name I was known by,which was the surname of the bridegroom..

hi tracey,
when i remaried it did state on my marriage cert previous marriage dissolved but i dident have to use my previous name on the cert i used my maiden name.

Thats cool :)

I'd like to do the same... my ex has annoyed me enough without looking at his name on my new cert (assuming after 11 years of waiting i get a cert) lol

Hi all I got married the second time using my first married name which I had for 32 years, I got divorced after been married for 26 years. I was married when I was 16 so i had my ex's name for a long time. I did not want to go back to my maiden name when I got divorced.
Angela

Here in Ireland since 2000 the name that a child is registered in has to stay on the register,but still if a child was born before 2000 the mother or father(once he is paying maintenance) can change the childs surname without the others premission.Before then both parents had to go to court and sign an advidavit(sp) to say that he was the father.
Most people now use a double-barrelled name usually the fathers name first.
Betty