Father Unknown

[echokilo]

Can anyone suggest any other ways of establishing the name of the father of a relative (born 1897)? Have tried birth certificate ... woulh (the child's) marriage certificate definitaly give dad's name? Any other ideas?

TIA

[craft1948]

Well certainly all the marriage certificates I've seen have given the names of the bride and grooms fathers, but if there is no name on their birth certificate I doubt there'd be one on the wedding certificate.

[craft1948]

Who was the child living with in the 1901 census?

[echokilo]

With his mother and her husband - he is showing with his mum and step fathers married surname - and listed as son .... but on 1911 census he has his birth surname (which is his mothers maiden name) and he is listed as adopted son ......

[dothawkes31]

It;s probably too late a date to look at the baptisms to see if the parish clerk or vicar or priest entered a fathers name based on local knowledge, which did happen alot in the irts half of the 1800s as single women giving birth were taken before the vestry committee or the parish constable to be questioned or 'examined' as to the father of the child to avoid the parish having to support the child and mother, the father was then served with a filiation order and made to pay support.
Yet in rural parishes this did carry on and so you may be lucky, depends where it happened and whether the mother would need support.