Goode family (Newent c1870 onwards) (General)

by Siggy708, Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 00:01 (5845 days ago)

Adoptions!

I am not really digging out recent sensitive info., only trying to tie up a couple of queries I have regarding my descendants in the 19th century. There was previous correspondence regarding Emily Symmonds in March 2008 by 'Chivenor2002' which has clarified the position in some ways but confused me in others! Doesn't Family History always throw up these problems?

As far as all the family are concerned my grandfather, James John Thomas Goode (b1871) was an only child but info from the census of 1881 and a recently acquired Birth Certificate appears to confirm that he had at least one brother. A Birth Cert. shows that a son, Lewis Goode, was born in 1876 to James and Emily Goode and the 1881 Census shows Emily Goode as a widow and Lewis as living with Emily's parents. I have no trace whatsoever of James' death either around that period or since but I do know (from info on the correspondence in this site and subsequent 1891, 1901 Census' that Emily married a Richard Keyse c1881/2 but there is no mention of Lewis Goode. I cannot find any trace of him in the Marriages or deaths so have assumed that he was adopted by someone or had died.

I am beginning to wonder if someone other that James Goode was the father of Lewis but that it was convenient for Emily to name her possibly deceased husband as the father. She apparently notified the registrar or whoever, of the birth of the child.

One question please - It is quite possible that a father could die prior to the birth of a child, but would the Birth Certificate still show the father but would it not confirm that he was dead at the time
of registration?

Brian (Siggy708)