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Surely one still has to be a little uncertain even though it was on the CofE Waif and Strays ............... after all, the only person certain to be the truly connected to a baby is the mother!
It's the same as any birth certificate, marriage certificate or death certificate ............. only certain information is true and accurate!
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Cynthia -
have you researched your father's mother at all? I'm just wondering where she might have met George, if he was indeed your grandfather.
Is this her birth?
OAKLEY, EMILY MAY mmn GOODWIN
GRO Reference: 1892 D Quarter in FORDEN Volume 11B Page 167
If so, according to the 1901 census, she was born in Chirbury, which is approx. 21 miles from Wrexham.
In 1911, she's working in Prestwich, Lancs, (mistranscribed as Emily Ivy on Ancestry) and her birthplace is given (by her employer) as Condover, Shropshire - about 20 miles from Chirbury, and not in the Forden reg district.
She must have moved to Oswestry area by 1915, as your father was born there in 1916, and she married there in 1918.
Although, as Sylvia says, not everything on BDM certs, etc, is necessarily true, the name George Stanley Kendrick seems a very specific name to give as your father's father if it wasn't true.
Who would have given that name to the Waifs & Strays people? Emily? Or had your father been in a children's home before that?
He's not with Emily and two daughters (one illegitimate, one from her marriage) in 1921 - living in Wigan.
George Kendrick
in the UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920
Name George Kendrick
Gender Male
Residence Age 28
Birth Date abt 1884
Birth Place Bensham, Denbighshire, Wales [ Bersham ]
Document Year 1912
Regiment Name The Royal Welsh (Welch) Fusiliers
Regimental Number 7012
Number of Images 5
Household List (Name) Relation to Soldier
George Kendrick
Mrs Kendrick Wife
Height: 5ft 4.75 ins
Physically well developed.
Address: 15 Bank Street, Southsea, Wrexham.
Discharged 17/11/1914, as being "medically unfit for further service".
So presumably in 1915 he was back home in Southsea..
Oswestry and Wrexham are only about 16 miles apart, so Emily could well have met him - at some wartime social event, perhaps.
She wasn't necessarily living in Oswestry itself - just somewhere in that reg district, and maybe nearer to Southsea.
Does your father's birth cert give Emily's address?
BUT there's no proof, as he's not named on your father's birth cert.
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This is one of those occasions where you need to plan out a tree of George’s ancestors, his descendants and any siblings descendants and then see if a dna test gives you any matches to those families.
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1851 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Harwood, Brymbo, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
George Kendrick Lodger Unmarried Male 20 1831 Collier Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
Thomas Boyar Head Married Male 35 1816 Enginerer Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
Sarah Boyar Wife Married Female 39 1812 Enginerer wife Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
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Name Hugh Kendrick
Baptism Age 0
Record Type Baptism
Birth Date 1852
Baptism Date 30 May 1852
Baptism Place Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
Father George Kendrick
Mother Maria Kendrick
Page number 95
Sarah Kendrick
Baptism
23 Jan 1859
Brymbo
George,
Maria
Moses Kendrick
Baptism
1 Feb 1863
Brymbo
George,
Mariah
William Kendrick
Baptism
31 May 1863
Brymbo
George,
Mariah
Peter Kendrick
Baptism
17 Feb 1867
Brymbo
George,
Mariah
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Name George Kendrick........Father not named
Gender Male
Marriage Age Full Age
Record Type Marriage
Marriage Date 15 Dec 1851
Marriage Place Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Spouse Maria Foulkes
Father: Moses Foulkes, Miner
Page number 247
Witnesses: Margaret Kendrick and Robert Parry
freebmd version
Marriages Dec 1851 (>99%)
FOULKES Maria Wrexham 27 492
RENRICK George Wrexham 27 492
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Name George Kenrick..............widower
Gender Male
Marriage Age Full Age
Record Type Marriage
Marriage Date 22 Mar 1875
Marriage Place Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Father Hugh Kenrick
Spouse Catherine Thomas...........widow
Father Thomas Davies
Name Maria Kendrick
Death Age 38
Record Type Burial
Birth Date 1828
Death Date abt 1866
Burial Date 31 Dec 1866
Burial Place Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
Page number 195
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