Hi, Emma Marlow who was Cecilia's eldest daughter obtained a copy of her own birth cert in 1947 following the death of her husband
john Henry, she must have obtained it to claim widows pension or something, this is were the name Fahy came from, Cecilia registered the birth in Walsall Staffordshire herself and signed the cert with an X also if you look at the 1901 census the column which is far right and asks if a person is Deaf/Dumb a Lunatic etc also shows a X for Cecilia, so putting 2 and 2 together I'm thinking she can't read or write or maybe even worse I'm yet to find out. If her educational skills are shall we say low to none existant then any info she gave to the registrar would be recorded in there interpretation, her Cristian name is recorded as Celia on the cert and not the full Cecilia, It would be interesting to see if Cecilia had any siblings as the surname Fahy comes up quite often for Walsall which could mean she had other family members in the area.