Isaac/Isaiah BOSELEY YEMM 1859 Mitcheldean (General)

by peteressex , Sunday, April 17, 2011, 18:02 (4973 days ago) @ Dewey

None of this persuades me that Laura, the mother of Beatrice, had any other surname than Sterry. I have two reasons for saying that:

1. Why else would the curate have left the mother's surname blank if it wasn't that the mother's surname was the same as the child's and didn't need repetition?

2. I can't recall seeing any other example of an illegitimate child being baptised with the father's surname in effect given but the mother's surname left blank. (By contrast you used to get numerous instances of an illegitimate child being baptised with the father's surname as the child's second given name, which didn't happen here.)

I'd say it remains a mystery, but thankyou everyone for looking into it. I am currently expanding the Sterry branch of my family tree and if I find a Laura Sterry of an age to have had Beatrice around 1882, despite no registration coming to light so far, I'll post the news.