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Hi Sylvia

I've seen the other Charles Culmer b 1853 and he is not the same one, but confusing with similar birth years. Have birth cert for mine and he is definitely 1850.

I hadn't thought about him changing his name though. Would that have been very common in those days do you think and would I be able to find a record of it anywhere?

Thank you, Jane

Jane


it happened, and probably not infrequently


and no, you wouldn't find a record of it


Even now, you don't have to change your name with any kind of fanfare ..... you just start using a diffeernt name, and that is acceptable so long as the change is not for any kind of illegal purpose.


I can remember seeing notices in our local paper back in the 50s and 60s (before I left the UK) that so-and-so would be known as such-and-such from a certain date (or today on)

That was quite sufficient.

I presume the same thing happens now



There is such a thing as Deed Poll by which you change your name ....... some one else may know where you could find information on that, and on when it began.





sylvia

Hi Sylvia

Sorry for the delay, I googled 'deed poll' and have been looking at National Archives website.

Don't think I am going to have much luck finding a name change though, if that is what he did.

Looks as if I'll never know what happened to him which is very frustrating!

Thank you very much for your help
Jane

you're very welcome



sylvia

Sarah L Allchin married Thomas Bolton
1901 census Letitia Allchin with them
Letitia Allchin
Age: 71
Estimated birth year: abt 1830
Relation: Mother-in-law
Gender: Female
Where born: Milton, Kent, England

Civil parish: Barming
Ecclesiastical parish: Barming St Margarets
County/Island: Kent
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Maidstone
Sub-registration district: Loose
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 36
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Bolton 51
Sarah L Bolton 46
William H Bolton 21
Letitia Allchin 71

I've just received the death cert for one of Charles Culmer's children. She died in 1897 and in the occupation box it says 'daughter of Charles William Culmer a whitesmith'.

I had sent for the cert hoping that it might have been her father who registered the death but that was done by her older brother.

Would you take this to mean that he was still alive then?

Thank you, Jane

PS thanks for that info Victoria, I have now found Letitia Allchin's death in 1909 also in Maidstone.