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can the same reference no. be used twice

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Rebecca

Rebecca Report 23 Nov 2006 11:00

I have looked up a birth in 1903 and noticed that there is an identical one in 1904, And the name is the same apart from the middle name, thanks 4 any help Bex

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 23 Nov 2006 12:33

I would have thought it was for a different person (perhaps a cousin or some other relative). If the birthplace is small, then there might not have been many births registered and a year after the first birth was registered, they may be still using the same page by the time the second one was registered. Kath. x

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 23 Nov 2006 12:46

I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong, but I thought that the page always started again at 1 at the beginning of the year. Were the 2 births at around the same time of year? Of course, the registration district number always stays the same ie. 9d, 1a, 10c etc Jeanette x

Stephen

Stephen Report 23 Nov 2006 12:54

well the other possablity is that they had a lot of births in the year 1904 and it just so happens that they have got to the same page number and there is a name the same on that page lol

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 23 Nov 2006 12:55

Just as an example for you, here's a couple of mine Births Sep 1876 Greenley John William Bridlington 9d 341 Births Sep 1877 Greenley John Henry Bridlington 9d 339 Ok so they're not identical.......that's how I can tell them apart! lol. But they were born a year apart but registered in the same quarter. The page number only differs by 2. And they are cousins

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 23 Nov 2006 13:02

Hmmmmm, think I've just tiddled on my own bonfire! Births Mar 1879 GREENLEY George Scarbro' 9d 352 Births Sep 1879 Greenley George Scarbro' 9d 351 One of those is mine! lol. Think it's the first one because this is his twin sister Births Mar 1879 GREENLEY Selina Scarbro' 9d 351

Judith

Judith Report 23 Nov 2006 13:19

Hi, this often happens because when the various registrars send to the GRO their quarterly returns are then bound together in the same order each time, with the page numbers beginning again from 1 for each quarterly book. So for example all the districts under the 1b ref were put in order: Pancras, Islington, Hackney, St Giles, Strand, Holborn. In Q1 1891 Islington marriages occupied pages 269 to 567 of the 1b volume and as long as the districts had a similar number of events registered from quarter to quarter its a safe bet that, whilst pages in the mid 200s might vary from Islington to Pancras in different quarters, ref erences such as 1b 350 will probably turn up as an Islington marriage every quarter at that time.