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  • Mystery of the Two Birth Certs.

    Originally posted by ajchambers8 View Post
    The one thing I would add regarding the original post is that for a father to have details other than his name, such as occupatin added to a birth cert in the UK the father has to attend the registration of the birth, I am not sure if this applied in 1870 but there should be some way to find out.

    Well, in the case of my grandfather Hubert Harries his parents were not married when he was born in 1911 and on the first birth certificate for him, he has been given his mothers maiden name of Taverner, though I can't see the details for this first birth certificate as I was told by Camden registrars in London, that the 2nd certificate re-registered years later in 1926 with his fathers surname and with his fathers details is the only one I can have, all they would say is its strange to find a birth re-registered so long afterwards, his parents married in 1919 so one would have assumed that would be the time to do it if at all. The only other thing is that his father died later in 1926 after a long illness, though he had other older male heirs to carry on the family name.

    Has anyone come across these circumstances before where a birth has been re-registered 15 years after the original birth registration?

    I know this is slightly off topic but I didnt want to open another thread and it is another 'mystery of two birth certificates!'

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    My own birth registration was firstly in my mother's maiden name and 9 months later with my father's surname after they married.

    sunny

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      Perhaps this had something to do with it - the Legitimacy Act of 1926 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_Act_1926
      Janet in Yorkshire



      Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree

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