Hi syljun
I am now looking at the entry for a Thomas Davies, and this is exactly what it says:
April-May-June 1972
Davies:
Thomas 23 Sept 1888 E Glamorgan 8b 1332
END
The informant may have known Thomas's date of birth, but unlikely to have ever seen his birth certicate, for whatever reason.
I have been doing family history, and have taught it, long before we had the internet, so I have travelled all over the country, in early years, and was often surprised at what I found. Meeting relatives, you never knew existed, and them them telling you things, that you'd never get through other sources.
Without boring you too much, with the final details, I traced a brother of my darling grandfather. Grampa, nor anyone else in the family knew. Not ONE of the family knew about it, until I rooted around in the past, and "dug it up". My grandfather's brother was 92 when I met him, but unfortunately, grampa had long since gone on to greener pastures, as grampa was 23 when his brother was born.
So, the moral of the story, is, keep an open mind, because you never know what you may find.
Maybe there is a secret in your family, that they wanted hidden. But, fortunately for us, who noses around in the past, it makes the search so much more interesting.
Happy hunting
I am really hoping that this is is the one to help solve the mystery
