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The Common Room / QUERY: Unusual Birth registration - McCollum family of Strabane, County tyrone
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 14:08 BST (UK) »
My husband has built and enormous family tree of the McCollum family of Strabane.
His father's mother had 3 sons. None have their fathers name on birth certificates.
What is strange is that my husbands father has his christian name and one other brother, but the youngest just has Male - no christian name then McCollum no fathers details then a version of her name plus the date this child was born in 1933.
This child lived until he was 73 and is buried in Strabane graveyard with all the other McCollum's.
How does a birth get registered with so little information. Surely they would need birth certificate later in life?? He was known as Billy to family
His father's mother had 3 sons. None have their fathers name on birth certificates.
What is strange is that my husbands father has his christian name and one other brother, but the youngest just has Male - no christian name then McCollum no fathers details then a version of her name plus the date this child was born in 1933.
This child lived until he was 73 and is buried in Strabane graveyard with all the other McCollum's.
How does a birth get registered with so little information. Surely they would need birth certificate later in life?? He was known as Billy to family