Genealogy Chat

Is it possible for the following to happen: Man and woman marry, ...Husband dies. Woman re-marries another man. Her surname changes to the new mans surname BUT her kids to the new husband are given the surname of the first husband???????

Hi Mark, one thought I have is that the lady doesn't actually 'marry' the second man but lives over the electrolux so to speak. Have you found her second marriage ? Joan

happens all the time If its your Rowley/Maguire marriage you cant find, I'd hazzard a guess it happened in Ireland

yes, the woman definately re-marries.

Ummmmm. Are the children possibly her step children to the first husband who come to live with her and new husband for some reason ???????

At what point are the children given the surname of the first husband? Fron registration onwards? Or later in life? She may have fallen out with hubby number two and changed his children's names. Or - hubby number two may have wanted to lose his own identity for some reason and so his children used another surname. OC

the children are those of her second marriage....but they gave the kids the surname of her first husband! sounds odd to me

the second husband was foreign...he came over from America.

ooh Mark, you should know with the Rowley's anything's pssible. If he came over from America did he have a foreign sounding name -could this be why the children with given the first hubby's name? Still haven't found a link to my OH's Rowleys - but you never know!!

Hi Mark, tricky one. Have you found their birth registrations or do you have the birth certs ? Joan

one of the birth certificates is on its way, it'll be with me approx. 6th Feb.

the second husband's name was 'Francis McGuire'

LOL!!! very true!

On the census, (for the second husband)...it says he was born in the united states of america...then next to it it says 'British S' or 'British I'....does anyone know why it would say this?

Perhaps there was a lot of ill feeling towards the Irish were they lived OR Perhaps they did it in rememberance of the first husband OR (this is the most likely one) They could see into the future and knew it would confuse the hell out of you!

Mark It wasn't a very good idea to be Irish in the 1800s, and many Irish people changed their names. Born in USA - British Subject means just that - he was born in the USA, but his parents were both British, and he was therefore entitles to be British too. OC