It's a Family Affair

Changing names twice does not help family historians!  Part 1 The First Name Change. When my father retired in 1984, my parents moved to East Runton near Cromer in Norfolk. His mother Annie Bertha Cubitt had died aged 37 of influenza pneumonia in 1927 when my father was just 8 years old.  He knew very little about her background except she had been born in Norfolk, her marriage certificate had shown no father's name and that she had a brother William whom he had met only once as a small child.  To find out more he visited the Norfolk Record Office in Norwich and came away with a birth certificate for Annie which both surprised and upset him.  Annie was indeed illegitimate and born in Norwich.  The mother's name was Laura Cubitt, a bar maid of Bull Close Road, Norwich but other than that he was unable to find anything more about her or his uncle William.  My own interest in family history began in about 1995 and when visiting my mum and dad I was able to visit the