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Usually when there is no father named it means the mother was unwed - if she had been married and the husband had died I believe he still would have been named on the birth registration as he would have most likely been the father............ in your case (and I would suspect others) if the father/husband had just skipped off, the mother may have just omitted the father's name out of spite :) who knows!!!!!!
In my family, I believe that possibly young Annie Potterton thought she was going to marry Thomas Hartley and therefore used his name when registering the birth just so the baby did have the father's name but she added the Potterton as that was her real family name........ altho, if she thought that, you would suspect that she might have named the father?? Unfortunately she did not go on to marry Thomas Hartley and I have not been able to find any trace of him after the 1871 Census so either he died or emigrated to somewhere.......... Although Annie herself has disappeared off some censuses as well..........
Leaves a lot of questions that unfortunately cannot be truly answered this late after the fact. But as there does not seem to be anyone in the area at the time to fit the "Ann Hartley" and based on the fact that his middle name was Potterton and the address on his birth registration matches the address for the Potterton Family on the 1861 Census (4 years before his birth) I am pretty sure that Annie Potterton was his mother - there would never be any real documentation to prove or disprove it anyways.....
So if I ever hear of a Hartley DNA project that includes those from around Otley Yorkshire I may just have to get involved - probably the only way I could prove that Thomas Hartley was his father is if we share some common DNA or something........
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