Originally Posted on Facebook:  April 16, 2020

Another irregular birth...

John Sargent Lane - Born October 1864, before his parent's marriage.

I wasn't able to find John Sargent's birth record when I first started researching his records. I eventually found out that the reason I couldn't find him was that he was registered under his mother's maiden name, Lane. The attached indexed record shows his entry on the right side of the page about halfway down as all the Lane children born in that quarter are listed by first name alphabetically for Devon.

John was actually born before Isaac and Ann married. If you recall we looked at their marriage record a couple of posts ago, they were married on November 2, 1864, and John's birth was registered in October of 1864. Ann had to register him with her surname but she chose to use Sargent as his middle name. Illegitimate and births out of wed-lock were very common despite the social and moral stigma around them.