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Hi,
For a long time we had trouble finding any thing about Ann Maria STANFIELD b 1843 Birmingham she gave her father as William STANFIELD a Caster at the time of her marriage. I now think that she was in fact the illegitimate daughter of Jemmima STANDFIELD b 1819 Birmingham baptised in St Martins herself an illegitimate daughter of Ann STANFIELD b 1802 bap St Phillips daughter of Thomas and (hooray his wife) Susanna nee GREEN they married 27 Dec 1801 Aston. There the trail ends If anyone can help find any of the missing fathers or help me find where Thomas STANFIELD or Susanna GREEN were from I would be grateful.
If it helps I believe Jemima STANFIELD eventually married John GREATWOOD Ann Maria is on the 1851 census as Ann Maria GREATWOOD so if she had taken her step fathers name then why do you think she reverted to STANFIELD for her marriage and invent a father William?
Trees
 
Why a name change?

Hi Trees, My Great Granddad was registered in 1853, however his Dad was a sailor he died before even seeing his new son.
My G/G/Gran when G/granddad was three remarried again, he was then put on all census' and records under her new husbands name .
Then when he married in 1878 he reverted back to his own name, the family story was, that until he was about to marry he never knew his name was ever anything other and in memory of the father he never know took his own name back.

I also have a friend whose husband did the same in the 1980's. He never knew till he need his birth cert' to get married (as he was under the legal age and need parental permission). That the man he had always thought as his dad was in fact his stepfather. Then as he had never really got on with his step-dad he decided to use his birth name from then on, my friend who had spent almost a year practicing her new signature had to do an about turn three weeks before her marriage and practice a completely different name LOL.

So it did and still does happen for what ever reason.

Pom :angel:
 
Name changes

Hi pom, I think they do/did it to make it harder or more interesting to geneologist :D. Ann Maria isn't my only one you should hear about my grand father....but thats a whole other world :D
Thanks for the reply
Trees
 
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