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I have a UK birth cert here from June 1939. The baby's birth was registered in August 1939 in London and the information provided by the baby's mother. She would have been not quite 21 at the time. Under "signature, description and residence of informant" it gives the mother's address where the baby was born and adds "as per declaration dated 31st July 1939." Does anyone know what sort of declaration it might have been and why it would have been needed?
The parents had been married for 3 years at the time their first child was born and the father was aged 27. The address that the mother gave and where the baby was born doesn't belong to the parents on the London electoral roll of the time. Another couple are registered as living there. But the parents appear at that address on the September 1939 Register that was carried out for WW2. And their second child was born there in 1940.
Hope this isn't confusing.
Thanks muchly.
I have a UK birth cert here from June 1939. The baby's birth was registered in August 1939 in London and the information provided by the baby's mother. She would have been not quite 21 at the time. Under "signature, description and residence of informant" it gives the mother's address where the baby was born and adds "as per declaration dated 31st July 1939." Does anyone know what sort of declaration it might have been and why it would have been needed?
The parents had been married for 3 years at the time their first child was born and the father was aged 27. The address that the mother gave and where the baby was born doesn't belong to the parents on the London electoral roll of the time. Another couple are registered as living there. But the parents appear at that address on the September 1939 Register that was carried out for WW2. And their second child was born there in 1940.
Hope this isn't confusing.
Thanks muchly.
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