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My oldest documented ancestor (born 1774) may have fathered a child before
he married his wife.
There are court records indicating that a father paid a fine on behalf of
his son for fathering a child out of wedlock. The name of the father and son
(Sr. and Jr.) were the same as my ancestor, and in the same county. Only a
few months following the court case, my ancestor got married (not the same
girl who gave birth).
This may be a coincidence of same name as I have not been able to document
the name of my ancestor's parents.
I often wonder what happened to the child. What surname did he or she use?
If some of the child's ancestors happened to have DNA testing done today,
they would wonder why the WILSON surname pops up in their lineage.
Larry
In a message dated 7/19/2008 12:15:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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The subject of rape is a sensitive subject in one of my family lines. My
grandmother was raped (by a married man who had a wife and children and was
a
relative) at a family reunion in 1909. She was 16 years old at the time
and
only grandma and her father knew who the offender was. We are told that my
grandmother's father threatened this relative and told him that if he
wanted to
live then he would leave the state of Virginia that if he ever came back he
would kill him. My Aunt, the child of this rape was raised by her mother
alone, with the family support system. When my grandmother married my
grandfather he adopted my aunt and raised her as his own.
In another line in my family, a man married and had several children, he
disappeared and everyone thought him dead and we found him living in another
county with the sister of his wife and they also had children.
In still another line, the head of the household had his wife and child and
a servant living in his household. This servant had several children by
the
head of this household as per the census records. After his death she
changed her children's surname to indicate the name of her dead employer, as
per
census records.
This type of thing has gone on through out history. It is no something to
be ashamed of.
Babies being born out of wedlock is not something that is a recent
occurrence, it has been going on for hundreds of years. True it is harder
to track
such births but I don't believe that in today's society there is as much a
stigma as it was years ago.
Pat C. Johns in Va.
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