Individual Notes

Note for: Amelia HIGGINSON, 4 DEC 1888 - 28 SEP 1965 Index

Immigration:
     Date:   1910
     Place:   England

Residence:
     Date:   1930
     Place:   20 Stevenson Lane, Teaneck, Bergen, New Jersey

Residence:
     Date:   1920
     Place:   Brown's Annex, Englewood Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey

Individual Note:
     Amelia was born to Charlotte in 1888 while she was at the Union Workhouse USD, located at 3 Maple Street, Pendleton, subdistrict Regent Road, Salford district, Lancashire, England. No father was listed on birth records. This may have been because of the rules listed below:(from:http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/births.htm)
Column 4 - Father's Name
I am sorry if anyone gets upset at this section, but there is still a fundamental difference between the way children born inside and outside of marriage are registered because there are still differences in law between the two. For example inheritance was affected by legitimacy in the past and nationality of a child still is.

Whether father is entered in the register depends on two factors - were the couple married (always entered) and what date the registration was made (maybe - maybe not).

The early registrations between 1837 and approximately 1850 are a little mixed. The Act of Parliament of 1836 reads "And it be enacted that the father or mother of every child born in England................shall within 42 days next after the day of every such birth give information upon being requested so to do to the Registrar, according to the best of his or her knowledge and belief of the several particulars hereby required to be known and registered touching the birth of such child provided always that it shall not be necessary to register the name of any father of a bastard child."

Now some registrars interpreted that quite freely and put father in even where the couple were not married and only mother or someone else was signing the register and some did not allow fathers details to be entered in the register. By about 1850 the situation had been clarified and the instructions read quite clearly "No putative father is to be allowed to sign an entry in the character of "Father" ". From that time, therefore there are 2 kinds of entries in the register

(1) Where the parents were married to one another, fathers details must be entered in the register and only one parent will sign the register (or some other informant)

(2) Where the parents were not married to one another there will be blanks in Column 4 (fathers name) and Column 6 (his occupation).

This situation lasted until the Registration Act of 1875 where the instruction read "The putative father of an illegitimate child cannot be required as father to give information respecting the birth. The name, surname and occupation of the putative father of an illegitimate child must not be entered except at the joint request of the father and mother; in which case both the father and mother must sign the entry as informants". There are therefore 3 kinds of entry after this Act:

(1) Described above

(2) Described above

(3) Where the parents are not married to one another but both attended the register office together, fathers details are entered in Column 4 and Column 6 and both parents sign. Looked at a different way - if both parents have signed in Column 7 regardless of what names they are using then the parents were not married to one another at the time of the birth of the child.

This situation lasted until 1953 when the same 3 entries could still be made but there were other ways in which father when not married to mother could be included in the entry without being present to sign but I don't think this later period will be of interest to most family historians so I haven't included it. If a mother was widowed before the birth of her legitimate baby the entry will show (deceased) after fathers name.

The child will take its surname from that of father in Column 4 where the parents were married and from mother in Column 5 if they were not married and fathers name is not entered. The child could take either surname if it was a joint entry and both mother and fathers surnames are shown but are different.

The name given for father is the name he was known by at the time of the birth of the baby. These days if the father has changed his name between his own birth and that of his child he could be entered in the register as John SMITH formerly known as John GRAY but that was not the case until fairly recently. If a man adopted his stepfather's name or that of the family who brought him up or used his fathers name even though only mothers was shown on his birth certificate, you are going to have a problem going back any more generations. You have to remember that until the recent advances in fertility treatment - the maternity of the child has never been in doubt but the paternity is known only to the mother Seriously - it is the reason why the mother has always been the prime informant for the birth of a child even since 1837.

     Amelia, according to "Arabic" ship records, was born in Salford, Lancashire, England.
The parents name on Dorothy Dillon Birth Certificate Shows the Mothers name as Davenport. All other children show mothers last name as Higginson according to Eileen Dillon (Hedges) and Dorothy Dillon (Geleng). Amelia was an only Child according to same sources. Amelia lived the later years of her life with her daughter Marion (Kay) and her family until the time of her death.

Individual Notes

Note for: Wilhelm Franz GELENG, 4 JUN 1845 - 23 OCT 1845 Index

Christening:
     Date:   15 JUN 1845
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Wilhelm Ferdinard GELENG, 10 MAR 1832 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   20 MAY 1832
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Pauline Louise GELENG, 27 OCT 1850 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   8 DEC 1850
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Pauline Emilie GELENG, 6 NOV 1827 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 NOV 1827
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Otto Hermann GELENG, 26 JUL 1848 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   13 AUG 1848
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Minna Ida GELENG, 13 JAN 1851 - 21 NOV 1853 Index

Christening:
     Date:   9 FEB 1851
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Martha Alma GELENG, 1 NOV 1863 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   6 MAR 1864
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Marie Anna GELENG, 12 JUN 1840 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   12 JUL 1840
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Ida Francisca GELENG, 13 SEP 1844 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   19 SEP 1844
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany