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INVENTED FATHER

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Julie

Julie Report 9 Apr 2009 12:06

Thanks Gwyn

A will never occured to me as none of em ever seemed to have any money

Julie

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 9 Apr 2009 12:01

You may find that James is mentioned in a Will of his supposed father.
We have one where a man with a different surname to his son mentions, ...' My hatural son Thomas Davies '

Gwyn

Julie

Julie Report 9 Apr 2009 11:53

Thanks Irene

Will give it a try see if there is anything there

Julie

Irene

Irene Report 9 Apr 2009 11:40

Rickinghall Inferior Parish Records 1653-1984 are held at the Ipswich Branch of Suffolk Records Office. When he was baptised it may show his fathers name in the parish records. The records office may be worth an email. Good luck Irene

Julie

Julie Report 9 Apr 2009 11:29

Hi Jim

Thats what i am trying to find out, i have been told i may be able to find a ' bastardry order ' among parish records but have no idea how to find them.

I know parish records for Rickinghall are kept at Ipswhich but have no idea about looking for bastardry records, he must have got the name from somewhere and there is a Robert Collins on ww1 mem. in a village close to Rickinghall

Julie

Thelma

Thelma Report 9 Apr 2009 11:25

How would you prove it?
1871
Robert Collins abt 1847 Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England Soldier Woolwich, Kent

Julie

Julie Report 9 Apr 2009 11:11

Hi Somerset

James Baxter was born 02/06/1869 in Rickinghall Superior Suffolk reg. district hartismere - mother Elizabeth Baxter, no father

He was married 10/10/1890 to Mary Ashford in Wattisfield ( Mary's home village next to Rickinghall ) his father is named as Robert Collins Soldier

There are a few Robert Collins in and around Rickinghall ( from census )
Elizabeth ( his mother ) was born 1848 Rickinghall

Julie

Julie

Julie Report 9 Apr 2009 10:46

On my G/G/father James Baxter 1869 birth cer has mother Elizabeth Baxter no father, at his wedding he has father Robert Collins soldier.
I know people sometimes invented a father to look respectable but surely he would have invented a father with the same surname as him.
I have looked and there are a cpl of Robert Collins born right time and place just not sure how/if i can tie them to my g/g/father

Julie