In 1880 Queensland’s legal system generally did not allow the father of an illegitimate child to be named on the birth certificate unless he personally went to the registry office with the mother and admitted paternity to the registrar. The the father’s name would be recorded only if he acknowledged paternity in person. In the case of Charles Vance Hunter, his parents were married 15 April 1879 and his brother William James was acknowledged on the birth cirtificate registered by his father. The three children born previous to this were not acknowledged, they did all take the surname, Hunter.
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