Hi to cut a long story short. I will explain it best I can as it can get a little confusing.
Someone in my family (great Nan’s sister in law) told my mum my Nan’s (my mums mum) dad isn’t her real dad and that my great nan had an affair with an Asian man. This made us question things so I set up an ancestry account and I’ve just recently started doing my family tree on there. I’ve also done the dna test to find family members and ethnicity, waiting on results.
Both my Nan’s have passed.
We was told my Nan’s (mums mum) birthday was the end of February and she always celebrated her birthday the end of February but on ancestry it says her birth was registered in the January before. She was born in 1950. This is definitely her birth registration.
I could understand it if it said her birth was registered in March or April but I don’t understand why it says the January before.
I have tried to order my Nan’s birth certificate to see what it says on that.
Also, my mum remembers my great grandad (mums mums dad) telling her he went to register my Nan’s birth by himself. Wouldn’t have my nan had to be there aswell? They was married.
The only reason we can think of as to why it says that the birth is registered in January is either a mistake on ancestry but not sure how it could be a mistake or that she was born in January and my great nan and grandad kept my Nan’s birth a secret so dates of her pregnancy didn’t match up to the other man’s affair with my great nan, if that story is true.
Just to mention aswell that my great Nan’s family was really religious and stopped talking to her years and years ago, not sure when. In 1980 her mum died and none of her family would allow her to go to the funeral. When she died herself none of her family went to her funeral. When my nan (mums mum) got married, my nan’s (mums mums mum) Sister kept her curtains shut all day. She lived round the corner and none of my great Nan’s family went. They used to ignore us in the street if they seen us. It’s upsetting that my Nan’s got treated like that. Could they have stopped speaking to her because of the affair, if it’s true. Could my grandad of known about the affair, if it’s true.
So I’m wondering, as it says January was the birth registration month does that look like its correct? I’m just confused by everything at the moment, don’t know what to believe.
Thanks for reading x