The obituary may not be correct either. Families sometimes will cover an
illegitimate relationship by calling them 'uncle' or 'nephew' to others outside
of the family.
DNA tests of one of his descendants MAY shed some light on this. But, you may
never know for sure.
Personally, I would link him in the tree the way the family chose to and change
the 'relationship' tab to show that he may not be related to the particular
parents that he is linked to and document this in his notes until more is known.
My husband has a grandfather who was adopted. The name of his mother is known
but no father is mentioned on the birth certificate. DNA tests of descendants
show a family relationship to the adopted father's line. It appears by this
that the father who adopted him may have actually been his biological father
and without the DNA results no one would have known.
Good luck on this one
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 11:04 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]>
wrote:
I have a relation, William Thomas Bloor, known to my grandmother as
"Uncle Tom" who has always been something of a mystery. I've never been
able to find anything about his birth or baptism. On his Marriage Cert
his father's name is given as William Macallister Bloor, but I am sure
he was illegitimate and the surname Bloor should not be tacked on.
(Similarly, his wife was illegitimate and her father's name as her own
surname tacked on, incorrectly.) Then I found a report of my 2nd Great
Grandfather's funeral in which he was described as a nephew.
If he was illegitimate and was a nephew of my GG Grandfather there were
4 daughters who might possibly have been his mother. Of 3 of them I
know nothing other than their names and dates of baptism, the 4th was
just old enough (about 16) to have been Uncle Tom's mother 4 years or so
before she married.
How would other users link Uncle Tom to the rest of the family so that
his correct relationship shows up? Would you link him to one of the 4
sisters with a note that the relationship is totally unproven? Link him
to all 4 with the relationships all unproven? Add a new unknown sibling
as the parent of Uncle Tom?
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Jenny M Benson
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