Robert bc 1791and son,Thomas b.1826-1860

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Member Since: November 2008 Posts: 4,290 Send Message	EvieBeavie	Report	10 Jan 2009 00:53
	What I was saying about stepfathers -- it's also possible that his mother had remarried (or not but said she did) and Cadman was his stepfather's surname and not his own at birth, and he appears in censuses under the stepfather's surname. Or -- his mother was the Cadman, he was born when she was not married, she subsequently married, and he appears in censuses under a stepfather's surname. In situations like that, especialy the unmarried mother whose surname the child marries under, making up a father's given name out of thin air is quite common. Or using the given name of the maternal grandfather. Mind you, common as those may be, they're still just a small fraction of the total, and odds would be you're looking for a real Thomas Cadman son of a real Robert Cadman who was simply deceased by the time of the 1841 census.