Incorrect DOB on death registration ?

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Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 93 Send Message	FrankFromYorks	Report	30 Sep 2010 11:43
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 93 Send Message	Hi, I would like some advice on a search I'm making for the death of my great aunt Beatrice Knowles Born in March qtr 1891 in Bury (8c 603). These Details from Free BMD search fitted perfectly in sequence with her 2 sisters Lydia (1889) and Elsie (1892). Also the 1901 Census shows her at age 10 in Bury. However There seems to be a problem with her death registration details, if I've found the right Beatrice. Beatrice Married twice but after her second marriage she was Beatrice Johnson, her husbands all pre deceased her and I know from personal memories that she died in the mid 1970's in Bury. Searching though the Free BMD images I find that she died in the March quarter of 1975 (which sounds about right from memory) Vol 38 Page 0763 but it gives her date of birth as 20 Dec 1895. This does not agree with the birth details I have found or the 1901 census. Futhermore, If I try look at the BMD images to find a Beatrice Knowles born in Bury in either the Dec qtr 1895 or the Mar qtr of 1896 I don't find anything. How likely is it (or common) that the date of birth given on the registration certificate is completely wrong ? Hence I can assume that the death details I found are for the correct person ? Thanks