Unable to find birth certificate

[Fdgl65]

Hoping someone can help as I have gone round and round in circles with this one.

I'm looking for Elizabeth Hubbard born January/February 1911 either in Derbyshire (her family came from there) or Bingley in Yorkshire (grew up in Bingley). Sometimes a new pair of eyes can be help to spot the record.

On my grandmother's marriage certificate dated 2 February 1938 it states she is 27 years old and a spinster. There are no other names given for her. Was it common in 1938 for people not to give their full names? I am wondering if Elizabeth was a middle name and hence why I can't find her birth certificate. I really need it to confirm her mother's name because her father died in WW1 and it would confirm that I have the right war death record. Her father was John Hubbard.

Many thanks

[Necromancer]

cant see owt for Keighly (Bingley's Regn Dist), but this might be a potential mistran (Derbyshire) ?

Births Mar 1910   
HUBBAND  Elizabeth     Basford  v7b  p262


PS. Also did a middle name search (prefix name with an '*' in FreeBMD) - nowt !

[Fdgl65]

Hi

I've looked at the photocopy of the record and it looks like Hubbard to me

The phonetic surname search on Free BMD isn't very good

I might get a copy of this birth certificate, even if it is just to eliminate it.

[Necromancer]

you can always make the GRO Order conditional on a known fact ....

 

Added: Blimey, you think they would have been able to see it was Hubbard when its in the middle of a block of 'em ! 

[madpants]

I found the hubband one on freeBMD too, Newf beat me to it but I tried the Hub* as a search rather than the phonetic, it has been useful in the past.

[Fdgl65]

lol From now on I will use the wild card search.

@ Newf - sorry what do you mean "make the GRO Order conditional on a known fact"? - order as Hubbard instead of Hubband cos we know that's right?

[Necromancer]

Good point - will the GRO ignore the spelling and just produce an Elizabeth with that Vol and Page from Basford ?

You have to order it with the given params - but I'd personally use HubbaRd and rely on the Vol & Page and some common sense, given its from an Index Page in the middle of a block of Hubbards ...

What I meant was that you can use their 'Reference Checking' feature to specify a fact like Father's name, Mother's, actual birthdate etc - if it doesnt match, they wont issue the Cert and you get a £4 refund ...

[Necromancer]

You might want to correct the FreeBMD entry - they have a correction option as well as a Postem feature to highlight the error ...

[Fdgl65]

Ah thanks I will use that feature because I know her father's first name was John as it's on her marriage certificate and I am pretty certain her mother should be Sarah Jane.

Re: Free BMD - I've seen other mistakes but have been too frit to correct them lol