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Trying to help my mother-in-law find out why her father has the surname Kershaw as he was born Thomas Bertram Johnson - 1910 - Brentford, Middlesx, my mother-in-law was born in 1938 and has the surname of Kershaw, her mum is Mildred Kershaw nee Watts, I have tried to find a marriage but have had no luck so far. Can anyone help

Are you sure of your dates?

Births Dec 1910 (>99%)
HOLLOWAY Thomas B Brentford 3a 88
WILLIAMS Thomas B Brentford 3a 76

these are the only possible births in 1910, Brentford.

Where and when did her parents marry?

The closest i have...

Births Mar 1910
JOHNSTON Thomas Bremner Kensington 1a 113

When did thomas die (assuming he has?)?


Tracey x

Ok This is Thomas....

Name: Thomas Bertram Kershaw
Birth Date: 7 Jun 1910
Death Registration Month/Year: 1980
Registration district: Brighton
Inferred County: East Sussex
Volume: 18
Page: 0362


Tracey x

This Thomas EDWARD Johnson is the right age 10 months old in Apr 1911 makes summer 1910.

1911 RG14PN6968 RG78PN345 RD128 SD6 ED17 SN443
Address: 29 Stirling Road Acton County: Middlesex
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JOHNSON, William Head Married M 30 1881 Bricklayers Labourer Middlesex Dalston
JOHNSON, Ellen Wife Married F 27 1884 Gt Berhamstead Hertforshire
JOHNSON, William Alfred Son Single M 8 1903 Shepherds Bush Middlesex
JOHNSON, George Fredrick Son Single M 5 1906 Acton Middlesex
JOHNSON, Henry Albert Son Single M 3 1908 Acton Middlesex
JOHNSON, Thomas Edward Son Single M 0 (10 MONTHS) 1911 Acton Bush Middlesex
BURTON, Lillian Boarder Married F 26 1885 Laundry Dryer Notting Dale Middlesex
BURTON, Lillian Linda Boarder Single F 6 1905 Acton Dale Middlesex
BURTON, George Edward Brother Single M 0 (6 MONTHS) 1911 Acton Dale Middlesex

Possibly the eldest son's baptism?

Name: William Alfred Johnson
Record Type: Baptism
Date: 21 Jun 1903
Father's Name: William Henry Johnson
Mother's Name: Ellen Johnson
Parish: Saint Saviour, Shepherds Bush
Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
County: Middlesex

Tracey x

Yes the birth for Thomas Bertram Johnson is the 07/06/1910 and he died in 1980, his father is Thomas Johnson - 1882, Brendford, Middlesex and mother is Lizzie Annie Maria Jmes - 1888 -Staines, Middlesex - on Thomas death certificate it has the surname Kershaw and does not mention the surname Johnson, mother-in-law and I cannot find out why the surname was changed and her mother never talked about it, her mother Mildred Watts born 03/05/1910, Merthyr Tydfil, Breconshire

Do you have Thomas's birth cert?


Tracey x

Yes I have his birth certificate and no info. on there

Could it be that his mother remarried and he was adopted by his new father?

Ok i know this may seem like a silly question....

How do you know you have the right cert?

We cannot find a birth for a Thomas Bertram Johnson 1910 at all on the BMD, and you know him as a Kershaw?

I know we are looking for the answer to the question as to how he got to Kershaw from Johnson, but how can you be sure you have his cert?


Tracey x

Ok the parents marriage...??

Marriages Jun 1908
>>JAMES Lizzie Annie M Brentford 3a 320
>>JOHNSON Thomas Brentford 3a 320
Webb George William Brentford 3a 320
Youe Lily Matilda Brentford 3a 320

Tracey x

Yes it could be a possibility that his mother remarried and that he could have been adopted. Are you able to check the 1911 census for me to see if he is on it.

Sharon

I am searching the 1911 now, and cannot see anything immediately..

I'm struggling to find Thomas and Lizzie Johnson at the min

Tracey x

I've been looking at the 1911 but can't find him yet.

The nearest remarriage I could find was this one, but wrong district:-
Marriages Sep 1919 (>99%)
Johnson Annie M Kershaw Manchester 8d 456
Kershaw Joseph T Johnson Manchester 8d 456

possibly Annie Maria?

Grrr this doesn't help one bit!!!!

1911 RG14PN6916 RG78PN343B RD128 SD4 ED49 SN95
Address: 121 Windmill Road Brentford County: Middlesex

CHARLTON, Harry Colvile Head Married M 44 1867 Railway Official Watlington Oxon
CHARLTON, Elizabeth Wife Married F 53 1858 Ashley Near Acton
JOHNSON, Lizzie Ann Maria Servant Married F 22 1889 General Servant Domestic By End Ashford Middx Hants

Sharon

What was the address of his birth?


Tracey x

The Bertram middle name could have been omitted off the BMD list.

Births Jun 1910 JOHNSON Thomas Brentford 3a 95

Tracey x

EDIT: the 1911 states 3 years married and 2 live children born and 2 still alive.

T x

I have his birth certficate Born Seventh June 1910, Warkworth House, Twickenham Road, Isleworth U.D. (Reg District Brentford) birth registered Twenty Second June 1910

Hmmm found this...

Warkworth House was the Brentford Poor Law Union Workhouse. On the same site was an additional building which was used as the Brentford Poor Law Union Workhouse Infirmary. The infirmary eventually did become the West Middlesex University Hospital which also later absorbed the workhouse buildings. However, up until 1932 the majority of births did not occur within the infirmary building but within the maternity ward of the workhouse. Sadly there are no surviving records from the maternity ward (or any part of the workhouse) for the period when your grandmother was born.

This was written in response to someone else's request for info on Warkworth House, on another Genealogy site.


Tracey x

Could mean that they were separated though?
The original should show if she had any children, living or dead.