Genealogy Chat

Thanks Kathleen and Allan. That does looks very likely. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when the births were registered and am waiting for the death certificate of her husband so I can see if it was the same registrar the year before. Perhaps she was trying to get away with her late husband's name and the registrar remembered something as he wrote the name....!
G

I have a certificate with a correction numbered 30. In the LEFT hand margin the registrar has written the word "thirty" and initialled it. 30 can't be a column number, so I think it must refer to a record of corrections.

A number next to a crossing out on a certificate usually means the number of the correction. All corrections had to be numbered.

Kath. x

Many thanks to you all for your replies and my apologies for not getting back sooner. I expected to get some sort of e-mail to say there had been a reply and so did not monitor the boards.

Yes, there is a time given - thanks for pointing that out Barry. The writing in that column is so tiny I'd not noticed the time.

I think the 5 - a definite 5 - must be as Roy suggests and referring to column 5. You can hear the sign of exasperation as the registrar had to cross his entry in column 4 out !

Thanks again

Chris

I think the ref was to the column no. I don't believe that there was a separate log kept for corrections, unless anyone knows otherwise?

I have a correction with my dad's death cert where his dob was altered.

His cert was reissued with the original info intact, but a note to indicate that "in No 209 (the original entry Ref) in Space 5 (Date and Place of birth) for X read Y....."

Is anything written on the far right hand side of the certificate?
Any alterations have to be logged in a special book kept for that purpose.
Perhaps the change to your certificate was the 5th such entry in that log.

Gwyn

Just a guess, but the registrar could have asked for her husbands name rather than the baby's fathers name and whilst writting the mother mentioned that he was not the father of the child, So the registrar crossed out the name and ammended the entry by putting the number 5, to mean, column 5 Mothers details,
name, and previous names if any, of the mother of the baby

Roy

I have a birth certificate for a boy twin born on 25th Feb 1845 in south Yorkshire. In the "Name and Surname of Father "( column 4) there is the first name of the baby's mother's late husband and the first initial of his surname.

All of this partial name is neatly crossed out and the number 5 written above the crossing out.

Her husband was killed exactly 13 months before the twins were born and it was a well-known local piece of news at the time. She can't have hoped to pass the babies off as his.

Please can anyone tell me what the significance of the " 5" is ?

Thanks

Chris