I've just got the copy birth cert for my elusive half great uncle George Johnson.
I always knew he was illegimate and his father's identity is a family mystery. I didn't expect to see a father named but on the birth cert the name Charles Henry West is written in the box for father's name but then it has been crossed out. Next to each part of the crossed out name someone has written the suffixes 11, 12 and 13. Then at the edge of the cert the words eleven, twelve and thirteen are written out in full and after each "CR".
Does anone know what this means? Is it just the way they made corrections?
Also how usual is it for a name to be written and then crossed out? I've certainly not seen this before.
Thanks in advance.
I always knew he was illegimate and his father's identity is a family mystery. I didn't expect to see a father named but on the birth cert the name Charles Henry West is written in the box for father's name but then it has been crossed out. Next to each part of the crossed out name someone has written the suffixes 11, 12 and 13. Then at the edge of the cert the words eleven, twelve and thirteen are written out in full and after each "CR".
Does anone know what this means? Is it just the way they made corrections?
Also how usual is it for a name to be written and then crossed out? I've certainly not seen this before.
Thanks in advance.
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