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It was my first foray back into the family records this past weekend, and what did I find? That three girls were christened on the same day in Cranborne - May 15th, 1888 - with parents named George and Elizabeth Jane Adams. What on earth is this? I looked through the baptism records and could not find any other George Adams born after or near our George, nor could I find ANY other George Adams in the Cranborne censuses up to 1871. And how coincidental that this potential other George also had an Elizabeth Jane for a wife.
My suspicious side is taking over my confused side and beginning to smell a rather large rat. Could George have been leading a double life? Our George was in Bournemouth and legally wed to Isabella in 1888 and having children with her. Who are these girls (surely they were not triplets, but just all christened on the same day for some reason), and where do this other George and Elizabeth Jane Adams fit in if they are not the same ones?! There must be a logical explanation somewhere, because no one would be stupid enough to christen his children in his home village church if he was supposed to be married to someone else in another town, which everyone would have known about in little Cranborne.
One explanation that I'd already thought about when I couldn't find any record of death for Elizabeth Jane Adams, is that she did not die earlier, but was in an assylum/sanatorium (perhaps the marriage was annulled?), and so she might have had more children that George later adopted as his own, in law or name, that were christened in the church at Cranborne. It is all very interesting and potentially very sad.
Or - Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation is that there was another couple named George and Elizabeth Jane Adams living about the same time in Cranborne ... if only I could find such a George and Elizabeth Jane in the records. ANYWHERE.
Here are the three girls names: Lilian May Adams, Constance Ethel Adams, and Nelly Catharine Adams.
How will this all turn out?
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