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Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 78 Send Message	Mog	Report	18 Jul 2006 18:45
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 78 Send Message	I have someone who married in 1904 and was a spinster. However, when she registered her daughter's birth in 1901, she was using the same name but claimed to be married and even gave a fictitious maiden name! What proof of marital status, if any, did people have to provide when registering a birth? Does anyone know? Mog
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	18 Jul 2006 18:57
	Short answer None!!. My paternal gran had two children by her second husband & they were reg in his name with her maiden name as if they were married . BUT they didnt marry till 3 years after the first one was born
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	18 Jul 2006 19:10
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	I didn't have to prove I was married when I registered my son in 1992.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20,615 Send Message	Heather	Report	18 Jul 2006 20:08
	No, you dont need to provide proof. It really throws you when a woman registers a birth in her supposed married name and after months of searching you find her marriage 17 years after the child was born!