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Birth Certificate help
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Jenni | Report | 14 Oct 2004 16:52 |
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Thanks guys, I've now rung the GRO office and they say that, as Kate says, registrars weren't allowed to use ditto marks in that way, but that they also weren't allowed to leave the box blank and so it must just be a space filler. Oh well, guess I'll never know who his father was but it wasn't hugely important, just nice to know that's all! Thanks :o) |
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Twinkle | Report | 13 Oct 2004 18:49 |
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It looks like the baby was illegitimate. You don't say if the mother had remarried but you could tell this from the certificate easily. By 1869, twin births normally had a time on them. There is no way a registrar would be allowed to use ditto marks to carry information over. I have these marks on a bride's occupation from 1926 - as I doubt she was a road labourer like her husband, it probably means the same thing as a line through the box. |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 13 Oct 2004 17:32 |
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I should have thought that would be a very reasonable question to ask the register office that supplied the certificate. They must know whether or not the ditto marks represent an indication that the info in the preceding record matches or if it's just space-filling. If it is from the cert above, they should have put it into your cert and should supply the info at no extra cost to you. Is it a photo-copy of the record, or a transcription? I can imagine that that would be a possible error if it's a photo-copy from GRO-Online; they might not notice that there should be info in that record. Christine |
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Jenni | Report | 13 Oct 2004 17:23 |
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I've received a birth certificate for one of my ancestors born in 1869 and under the father's name and occupation columns there are just ditto marks - ". I know that the father of all his other siblings died in 1865 and so assumed that he was born "out of wedlock", and so no father was recorded. But I'm now wondering if the ditto marks could mean that he was a twin and the father's details were actually recorded in the entry above?? Any ideas? |
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