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Help! Paternal gm's birth certificate only shows WILLIAM crossed out as father. However, marriage cert shows full name. She had father's second & surname so is there any way to proceed from this, to find out more about him? Shs seems to have known him and possibly had contact.

seems her mum knew who the father was but she wasnt married to him so he couldnt be named on the birth cert as he wasnt present at the registration .
What year are you looking at?

Maragret PM.d me as follows
From Margaret My gm was Alice Calver Wilson born 23 Dec 1879, registered 1880. Her mother was Margaret or Margarite Ellen Wilson, I think the certificate says, domestic servant. The marriage cert (Dec 1905) gives her father as William Calver Wilson, profession-butler deceased. Alice was born near Scarborough, North Yorkshire but was at Low Fell in County Durham when she married

1901 census
: Alice Calver Wilson
Age: 21
Estimated birth year: abt 1880
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Gateshead
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: Durham
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Gateshead
Sub-registration district: Gateshead
ED, institution, or vessel: 73
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 247
Household Members: Name Age
Mary Wilson 61
Agnes Wilson 58
Emma Wilson 58
Alice Calver Wilson 21
actualcensu page says no relation to the other Wilson's is just a servant


Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 4760; Folio: 53; Page: 38.

1911
MIDDLEMAS, George Hall Head Married M 36 1875 Coal Miner Hewer Gilegate Moor Durham
MIDDLEMAS, Alice Calver Wife Married
5 years F 31 1880 Scarboro Yorks
MIDDLEMAS, Thomas Simpson Son M 2 1909 Hanuton Parish Durham
MIDDLEMAS, Mary Wilson Daughter F 0 (11 MONTHS) 1911 Harraton Parish Durham
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
30127 Reference:
RG14PN30127 RG78PN1739 RD554 SD2 ED10 SN106

Registration District:
Chester Le Street Sub District:
Harraton EnumerationDistrict:
10 Parish:
Ouston

Address:
24 Eve Hill Pelton S O County:
Durham

Many thanks, I have this one. I find it interesting that she worked for people of the same name but somewhere it said that she was not a relative.

1881

WALKER, Barbara Head Widow F 56 1825 Laundress
Scarboro
Yorkshire
WALKER, Barbara Daughter Single F 13 1868 Scholar
Scarboro
Yorkshire
WILSON, Alice C Nurse Child Single F 1 1880 Infant
Scarboro
Yorkshire
RG number:
RG11 Piece:
4802 Folio:
99 Page:
42

Registration District:
Scarborough Sub District:
Scarborough EnumerationDistrict:
Ecclesiastical Parish:

Civil Parish:
Scarborough Municipal Borough:
Address:
34, James Street, Scarborough County:
Yorkshire (North riding)

Next door in 1881 is a William Calvert:

1881 England Census
about William Calvert
Name: William Calvert
Age: 60
Estimated birth year: abt 1821
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Louisa
Gender: Male
Where born: Scarboro, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Scarborough
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Street Address: 35 James Street
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status: View image
Occupation: Whitesmith

Registration district: Scarborough
Sub-registration district: Scarborough
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
William Calvert 60
Louisa Calvert 44
David J. Calvert 15

Rose

1891 England Census
about Alice Wilson
Name: Alice Wilson
Age: 11
Estimated birth year: abt 1880
Relation: Granddaughter
Gender: Female
Where born: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Birtley
Ecclesiastical parish: St John The Evangelist
Town: Birtley
County/Island: Durham
Country: England
Registration district: Chester Le Street
Sub-registration district: Harraton
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Mary Wilson 57
Noole Wilson 26
William Wilson 21
Frederick Wilson 19
Harriet Wilson 15
Alice Wilson 11
William Wilson 5

Rose

Many thanks, this is my family. My father's birth was registered quite late as he was born in April 1908. The address is actually Ewe Hill not Eve Hill as stated.as stated

Thanks to everyone for the replies and suggestions. It is very useful to be able to crosss check information. It might help to get hold of her brother's birth cert as they may have the same father.
Sorry for not being very good at this but I do appreciate your help.

Perhaps she was brought up by grandparents as a daughter this could be why William Wilson is on marriage cert,

Maybe Calver/t was the bio fathers surname but because they wasnt married it couldnt be put,,,,maybe when giving birth details they asked,Fathers name and Maragret said in all innocent William ??and they may have said is he your husband ,so that why half way the name has been crossed out>??but surname has been included in the birth name.....

Margaret in 1881:

1881 England Census
about M.E.Wilson Wilson
Name: M.E.Wilson Wilson
Age: 23
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Bukley, Durham, England

Civil parish: Scarborough
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Street Address: 8 The Crescent
Education:

Employment status: View image
Occupation: Waiting Maid (Domestic)

Registration district: Scarborough
Sub-registration district: Scarborough
ED, institution, or vessel: 16
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
R.I. Ellenshaw 69
M. Ellenshaw 54
B. Ellenshaw 35
E.H. Bland 29
E. Myers 26
M.E.Wilson Wilson 23
E. Pickstock 24

Rose

Margaret.... I think adding a births fathers name as a childs middle name was common practice.

My 4x gr grandmother was baptised Ann Vousden Clifton....her mother is named on baptism record as Ann Clifton, no father.

There were quite a lot of the Vousden family in the area of Kent where she was born, though which one was her natural father I will never know.


Nicky