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The Common Room / Re: Bristol lies partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Somerset
« on: Thursday 30 October 25 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ReadyDale on Thursday 30 October 25 13:23 GMT (UK)
And their current instruction can even confuse the registrar.
When I had to register my Dad's death, I was asked for his place of birth. I told them Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Marylebone. They said they had to go by the names of the areas now, and wanted to put Acton.
It took a lot of pursuading that it wasn't that the area had changed names. The hospital was in a totally different location, miles apart (and indeed had been in a third location for many years in between too).
Eventually, sense prevailed.

Obviously they hadn't read the manual properly !  The guidance, for the birthplace on a death registration,  is that things like a hospital name aren't included only the town/village and county, so they should just have put:

"Marylebone, City of Westminster"

If you, as the informant really wanted it on there I would probably have entered it as:

"Marylebone, City of Westminster: Queen Charlotte's Hospital"

...although it would probably have been queried and got me a telling off during the quarterly checking process.

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The Common Room / Re: Bristol lies partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Somerset
« on: Thursday 30 October 25 11:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Andrew Tarr on Wednesday 29 October 25 17:16 GMT (UK)
Up here, we in Cheshire recently gained the town of Warrington, which Lancastrians will know was always in Lancashire  ;D and belongs there IMHO  >:(

And under current BMD registration rules, places are always supposed to be recorded as they are NOW - so on the death certificate of someone born maybe a hundred years ago in Warrington and may have called themselves a proud Lancastrian, their place of birth would be shown as Warrington,Cheshire.

Will be potentially confusing for future researchers.

At a families very earnest request I did once record a birthplace on a death reg using its old historical details, which successfully slipped through the checking process. They were very grateful.  :)

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Herefordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Marriage / death cert ?
« on: Monday 27 October 25 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Antony1977 on Monday 27 October 25 09:30 GMT (UK)
Thanks Antony ( there’s not many of us called Antony , everyone puts a H in my name )

Very true - annoying isn't it !

(the reason you didn't find the birth originally using the full details is probably because the GRO site uses a leading zero on volumes so you need to put 06A, not just 6A)

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Herefordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Marriage / death cert ?
« on: Monday 27 October 25 09:01 GMT (UK)  »
The birth is there  -  ( usually best not to put vol/page numbers into the searches)


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The Common Room / Re: divorce records 1960's?
« on: Saturday 11 October 25 16:25 BST (UK)  »
Records of divorces post 1937 are complete and available, to anyone, but you will only get a copy of the decree absolute ( for a fee)  using the .gov  link above.

Case papers post 1937 are not available.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Ethnicity Update
« on: Friday 10 October 25 11:41 BST (UK)  »
My little bit of Europe is moving around and diminishing - started off at 6% Russia/Finland, and has moved through Scandinavia, 2% Sweden/Denmark,  to now only be 1% German. Must be the effects of Brexit !

I had 20% Scotland in the last version ( confirmed with lots of known history and records) but that has now entirely disappeared and gone to 0%. I have gained 31% NE England, where I have no known ancestors whatsoever, but I suspect that is now actually coming from my lowland/border Scots connections.

Generally though, allowing for the above, for me it is pretty close to what the records say.






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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Delay in death registration
« on: Saturday 04 October 25 11:34 BST (UK)  »
There is no way of working this out without ordering certificates from both entries.

It seems to be a re-registration. These are common for births but can very occasionally happen for deaths when there is a significant issue with the first entry (usually that it was done in the wrong district, or by an unqualified informant).

It could be missing in the GRO index because it somehow got skipped, or it could be badly transcribed, or for some other reason ( but a re-registration wouldn't remove the first entry though). Again, a certificate from that first entry may give a clue.

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The Common Room / Re: Twins or the same birth registered twice?
« on: Thursday 02 October 25 10:53 BST (UK)  »
It does appear to be a birth simply registered twice, which shouldn't ever happen ( except in specific statutory circumstances) but I have seen a couple of similar examples before.

Maybe the father wasn't aware of the first registration, or felt it was his job to do it.

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The Common Room / Re: Banns, did they require signatures?
« on: Friday 26 September 25 18:21 BST (UK)  »
I've no idea what they have on their microfiche, but if it doesn't have original signatures they aren't images from the original register.

But, you have no right of access to a civil register...... only to have a certificate produced from the information it contains, although as pointed out you can ask for a certificate to made by photocopying the original, they don't have to do it.

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