Genealogy Chat

I have just received a certificate for the birth of a ggg aunt, and I am a little confused wit something that I have never seen before.

On the surface the dob looks like 16th Feb 1867, but on closer inspection, there looks like the word May before Feb, that has been crossed out and replaced with the number 24, and to the left of the entry, it looks like someone has written Twenty Four D A.
16th Feb 1867 has not been tampered with.

Any ideas, or anyone willing to look at a scan version, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

I suspect the 24 is the error register entry number, once issued the certificate cannot be scrapped, so any amendments to it are recorded in the error register.

DA will probably be the registrars initials.

The registrar obviously made a mistake by putting May, and all mistakes have to be numbered and written in a separate log. This was just number 24 of the mistakes he had made, either in that particular register or that quarter etc.

Kath. x

Thanks Keith and Kath.