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[behindthefrogs]

The other point about early birth registrations is that the responsibility lay with the registrar rather than the parents. 

Marriages were easier because the vicar made a return and couldn't bury anyone without a certificate.

David

[Valda]

Hi

Have you an indication from Alice's parents' marriage whether the couple were Anglicans or non-conformist?



Regards

Valda

[Cross Quest]

Hi Valda
I haven't yet been able to track down Alice's parents' marriage certificate. Her mother is German, and I am having trouble finding them before or after the 1871 census, so am starting to suspect that they were living outside England for some years. Just to complicate my search!!!

[avm228]

What was Alice's mother's maiden name, according to the birth certificate? 

[avm228]

This looks like a good candidate marriage for George and "Clara M", especially with the German surname:


Sep qtr 1871

George DAVIS
Clara Magdalena MAYER

on same page, Mile End 1c 1166.


Obviously if correct it means they were being economical with the truth about being married in the 1871 census, but that wasn't uncommon.

Anna

[Valda]

Hi

Registered in both surnames

Births Mar 1867
MAYER  Alice Albertina     Greenwich  1d 727
Births Mar 1867   
Davis  Alice Albertina    Greenwich  1d 727


It still only leaves the George Robert Davis birth registration in Greenwich registration district in 1870


Regards

Valda

[tazzie]

  Hi All

  With Forest Hill being Lewisham area how does this look as being a transcription error?

  George Richard MAIJER     Lewisham 1d   page 853   qt2 1870

  The page is a typed transcription but depends on the original hand writting to what was reproduced.

                  Tazzie

[tazzie]

   Looks more likely as  also ......

  Clara Emily Davis birth 1869 Lewisham q1
  Clara Emily Maijer birth 1869 Lewisham q1

  She died q2 1869 Lewisham registered as Maijer.

  Tazzie

[behindthefrogs]

It seems fairly certain that the actual birth certificate will show the surname in both of those births as Davis or Maijer.  Thus the birth was only registered once but occurs twice in the index as two surnames were specified.

David