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FindmyPast first released the 1939;Register in October 2015.

The Register  originally intended for the Issue of Identity Cards and Ration Books in the war. It was later used as a basis of information when the National Health Service began in 1948. It was gradually updated  in part until the early 1990s that is why you can find some younger people and children opened before the 100 year cutoff. But it was hit and miss if a death was notified to the Register so there is a certain amount of inconsistency

Are you certain there is a Gravestone there are a lot without?  And have you tried Find a Grave? They have a list of graves in both cemeteries, some have photos but not all? There is the option to request a photo.

I have relatives buried in both cemeteries but few of mine have gravestone.

The biography detail does not open for me though the information below does. Viewing it on iPad

It’s the same for me on an iPad.

The marriage of Eli & Annie was registered in the March qtr 1875 so they could have married anytime from late December 1874 - 31.3.1875

If George was born 16.12.1875 - why do you think his father wasn't Eli?

If it is any help you may be interested to know the following.

1)  For a marriage to be legal it has to be registered at the time of the marriage, so  a marriage in December would only appear in the December Quarter. Unlike births there was no six week period in which to register a marriage.

2)  Legal adoption at that time was rare and costly as it could only be arranged though a solicitor. Mostly it was an informal private arrangement between the people involved. Adoption as we know it now only took place from 1927 after the passing of the Adoption Act of 1926.

3) It certainly wasn’t unknown for a birth to be registered  as the child of of a couple who were not the birth parents, I have such a case in my distant family.

You can never rely on information on certificates to be completely true, there is always a chance  of being led up blind alley.

A lot of people never had their full birth certificate, there was not the call to produce it as there is today. For example, my father only had a shortened version which simply gave name, date and place of birth.  A full certificate was an unnecessary expense for many people. My father travelled to Canada  and back in 1910 without the need for a passport.

Even my late mother in law who born illegitimately in 1920 only had a shortened version of her birth certificate, that was all she needed to obtain a passport to visit us in Malta in 1963.  I once asked her what her mother's name was, she said she had no idea as she had never seen her full certificate , it was only about 30 years ago when I obtained her full certificate that she learned who her birth mother was.

On her marriage certificate to my husband's father the space for her Father's information is blank. When she married her second husband she gave her foster Father's name rather than admit she was illegitimate. So anyone researching her would find it impossible to find a birth in that name.

No one would have imagined that well over a hundred years later family historians would be unearthing family scandals.