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Offline Celticgoddess

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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #45 on: Saturday 27 December 14 05:00 GMT (UK) »
Mistakes often happen-- even from official channels… When I ordered my Canadian mother's birth certificate it lists her mother as being born in Canada when in fact she was English.
LANAWAY-Sussex
JENKINS-Devon
COOK-Devon
DUFFIELD-Sussex
WENTWORTH-Oxfordshire/Canada
PRUST-Devon
SHADDICK
HERRINGTON
SAYERS
RIDLEY-Sussex
CARPENTER- Surrey

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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #46 on: Sunday 28 December 14 20:07 GMT (UK) »
I have an example of an error on a GRO (Scotland) certificate here

http://anguline.co.uk/cert/marr_cert.html

There was no reason for the error as the actual register entry was clear and there were also other clues on the certificate as to what the maiden name should have been.
Such as the mother's and father's surname.

I assume the clerk was tired when he/she typed the copy certificate.
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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #47 on: Sunday 28 December 14 20:13 GMT (UK) »
My great grandfather's date of birth is wrong on his birth certificate for the simple reason that his mother lied rather than pay a fine. 

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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #48 on: Sunday 28 December 14 20:41 GMT (UK) »
My mother, many years ago, lost her birth certificate, so requested a copy (short) certificate.

It came back as:

Surname: Xxxx
Forenames: Joyce Cicely
Sex:  Boy !! :o ;D ;D

So she beat the Sex Discrimination Act by a few years!!
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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #49 on: Sunday 28 December 14 20:57 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Can we believe anything we read on BMD certificates
« Reply #50 on: Sunday 28 December 14 21:56 GMT (UK) »
I know someone who ran into problems when trying to return home from Australia as his passport stated he was a girl - he ended up having to contact the embassy and get his father to send his birth certificate and so on.  Said he wouldn't have minded but he used the same passport for about 5 years before anyone (including him) noticed it had the wrong gender on it, including to get out there in the first place - he blamed his parents for giving him a girls name
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