This is strange...Copy birth certificate

[Kit]

I'd just like an answer now. I know I'll miss the update.

[Chris in Sussex]

Hi All

I did receive a reply from the GRO but as I have been recovering from an op, and have the attention span of a gnat, I forgot to post the result :o

They wrote

"I have looked at our copy of the birth entry of William Cox and also
obtained a copy from Wandsworth Register Office and I can confirm that
there is no obscured information in box 10. It is blank. The line through
the box has been added by ourselves (as with all certificates) to confirm
that this box is blank and to stop any additonal information being added
after the certificate has been issued.

I hope this explains."

Errr...Well not really as I can still 'see' a bit of paper over the last box.

But I suppose I will have to accept it.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

It's a bit frustrating, but I suppose the most likely explanation is that when the registrar was making his copy for the GRO he wrote something in the box by mistake and decided to obliterate it completely. The GRO then filmed the record (some decades later) and the result is what you see from the film copy. If there had been anything more on the original then you would have been told about it.

I hope you are feeling better?

[Chris in Sussex]

I think you are right Merry...I just wish they wouldn't do it with my lot :D

I am well on the road to recovery now, just taken longer than I expected or wanted. Thanks for asking.