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If it's on the full GRO index - I wonder why can't they find it??   

Here's the link

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/8782/records/37875452

No idea, even the lady at GRO was confused..

Quote from: CaroleW on Saturday 21 June 25 15:47 BST (UK)

I've checked the full GRO index & the freebmd entry is correct.  Unfortunately no matter what permutation of name I use on the GRO site - it shows "not found"

I have used the "similar & phonetically similar" options & even showed him as a female but no joy.

Think you may have to ring the GRO

Spoke to the GRO, they are as perplexed as to why they don't have the info, as the sites like ancestry etc, get their info from them...
I am at a total loss as to my next move....

Well....this could be why....

''He compared them to FreeBMD, a website run by the charity Free UK Genealogy which has published its own transcriptions of the GRO's original printed indexes.

Mr Calver found that over 7,000 birth entries from volume 4A of the July-September quarter of 1881 had been duplicated in volume 3B, whilst over 5,000 entries that should have appeared in 3B were missing.''

but then....

"Customers should be reassured that any issue with entries in the online index will not prevent them from ordering certificates from the General Register Office where they have identified the index reference number from another source."

I've checked the full GRO index & the freebmd entry is correct.  Unfortunately no matter what permutation of name I use on the GRO site - it shows "not found"

I have used the "similar & phonetically similar" options & even showed him as a female but no joy.

Think you may have to ring the GRO

Thank you so much for looking, I will call them on Monday as it's frustrating now the not knowing

In your opening post you give a birth ref for him - where is that from as it gives no registration district

The family resided in Peterborough.

I have searched using that info, comes up with nothing, I've searched just Arbon boys born 1924 +1, nothing...it comes up with many people but none that aline with Fredrick

The way the birth is registered is suggestive of  a birth to an unmarried mother. Is it possible that he's the son of a sister of your great grandfather, and so a cousin of your grandfather?

Having a look at the surrounding family, my grandfather had 3 Arbon aunts, so the sister of the adoptive father

Frances E Arbon  20 at the time of the birth
Alice E Arbon  18 at the time of the birth
Florence Arbon 9 at the time of the birth

So we can discount Florence in being the mother of Fredrick