Mary Matilda Glasson

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CT

Ian,
I checked up on this record at the CRO this week and the name it really is Galeudy - no doubt in my mind! Not a name I've come across before. Given that only one parent is named in this record I'm going to assume that it's the mother's name and move the name to that column.
Regards,
Bill

I think that I may have said to you that this was an unusual assumption to make, particularly when all the other information (census) disagreed with it. Well if the name is Galeudy as stated then it must be the father's name because Mary Matilda Glasson was born on the 29th July 1857 at Kerton Wood to Belinda Glasson, no fathers details were given.

Lannanta

[Cornish Terrier]

G'day Lannanta - most interesting. (And you have been at it again!? and decided there was only one way to solve the problem?)

But this means the baptismal entry is even more strange.

If the name (i.e. Galeudy) is not some sort of misrepresentation of 'Belinda' then it draws another question.

If the father's name was not recorded on the Birth Certificate then why would it be recorded at Baptism?

And more importantly - If Galeudy is the father then why was the child baptised with NO MENTION OF THE MOTHER!

CT