Birth Certificate Shock

[stonechat]

I knew of someone who intended to call her daughter Aimee

She got a bit confused and the daughter's name is Amiee

[ajf25]

I often wonder if the name Elise came about because of a transcription error of Elsie 

Alison

[johngirl]

Just recently I applied for my seventeen year old sons` birth certificate as he wanted to get his learners licence to drive a car.His name is Daniel but on the certificate it had his name was Danie.For some unknown reason they had missed off the L.It cost me $40 to fix up the mistake.Back seventeen years ago the hospital was the one that sent out the birth information to the Registrar of Birth,Deaths and Marraiges.I can`t remember if I filled in the information or the hospital.
Well I always wanted a daughter,I have six sons.

  Johngirl

[Winterbloom21]

A cousin of my own had a terrible shock a few years ago.   She had to get her baptismal cert for some reason, and the mother shown on the cert was a different name; not only a different name, but the name of another person in the family, whom she believed to have been a young girl of about 14 at the time!    Well, you can imagine.    Shock horror all around, theories and suggestions trying to work it all out.    We had all but convinced ourselves that there was definitely something shady going on back then when I double checked the 'other person's' age on the records    She would have been five at the time!    So we all relaxed and blamed the priest for not concentrating!

[net64]

When my gran was born way back in 1905 she was to be named Anna Liguori (Liguori after the saint).
The story goes that the father was sent to register the birth but had had a "wee  dram"  before doing so.
When he was asked to spell it he couldn't as he didn't read or write and she ended up as Annie Agloria

She was affectionally known as Annie Gorrie till she died at 93

I'd say the father got an earfull when the wife saw the birth cert!

net64

[sarahsean]

This isn`t a tale of a birth cert shock but it does tie in. My grandmother was known to us as Lena yet when she died we discovered her name was in fact Ivy Lena. Typical of her to have not used Ivy, it would have been too common!

Sarah

[Whipby]

We all knew my granddad as Robert Edward, but when I received his birth certificate it just said Robert with no mention of Edward.  Why would they have added Edward later?  I can find absolutely no reference to anyone other Edward in the family.

Strange.

[weste]

Could it have been a name taken at baptism?

[kiwihalfpint]

I don't want to be the one to mention this, but there seems to be a bit of a pattern emerging here of a certain gender failing to follow instructions! 

   My grandfather went to register mum's birth, but in his excitement he said the name was Margaret when it should have been Maggie which followed family tradition. 


Cheers
KHP