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Help interpreting a birth certificate please.
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Christine | Report | 1 Aug 2009 14:19 |
I have a birth certificate for a boy twin born on 25th Feb 1845 in south Yorkshire. In the "Name and Surname of Father "( column 4) there is the first name of the baby's mother's late husband and the first initial of his surname. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 1 Aug 2009 15:03 |
Just a guess, but the registrar could have asked for her husbands name rather than the baby's fathers name and whilst writting the mother mentioned that he was not the father of the child, So the registrar crossed out the name and ammended the entry by putting the number 5, to mean, column 5 Mothers details, |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 1 Aug 2009 15:19 |
Is anything written on the far right hand side of the certificate? |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 1 Aug 2009 18:22 |
I think the ref was to the column no. I don't believe that there was a separate log kept for corrections, unless anyone knows otherwise? |
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Christine | Report | 2 Aug 2009 17:41 |
Many thanks to you all for your replies and my apologies for not getting back sooner. I expected to get some sort of e-mail to say there had been a reply and so did not monitor the boards. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 2 Aug 2009 17:46 |
A number next to a crossing out on a certificate usually means the number of the correction. All corrections had to be numbered. |
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AllanC | Report | 2 Aug 2009 17:53 |
I have a certificate with a correction numbered 30. In the LEFT hand margin the registrar has written the word "thirty" and initialled it. 30 can't be a column number, so I think it must refer to a record of corrections. |
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Christine | Report | 2 Aug 2009 18:13 |
Thanks Kathleen and Allan. That does looks very likely. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when the births were registered and am waiting for the death certificate of her husband so I can see if it was the same registrar the year before. Perhaps she was trying to get away with her late husband's name and the registrar remembered something as he wrote the name....! |