Birth Certificate Enforcement

[Robert Fletcher]

I have this BC with the word "Three" endorsed in the leading margin. Can someone tell me what this means.

Thanks,
Robert....

[smudwhisk]

I suspect its to clarify the day of birth in the next box.  It looks like Tird or Fird (rather than First), which obviously isn't spelt correctly, so may have subsequently been clarified with Three to confirm its the Third.  Do you have any other source to confirm the day of birth?

I could of course be barking up the wrong tree on this.

[Wiggy]

Looks like 'First' to me -  no idea what the three could be for.

Wiggy

[Bookbox]

It's what's known as a 'numbered error', nothing to do with the date of birth. Look further along, and in another column of the registration (not shown above) there should be a correction, with the figure 3 written next to it.

It will have been made at the time of entering the registration, and will be the third such error made in this register. The number of the error is written out in full ('Three') in the margin and initialled by one of the registrars. Lists of numbered errors are kept separately from the register entries.

[ScouseBoy]

Maybe it is the house number, 3

[KGarrad]

Bookbox has it right - it's a numbered correction to the certificate.

[Bookbox]

it's a numbered correction to the certificate.

Not to the certificate, but to the original registration, made at the time of entering. Corrections made later are handled differently.

[Wiggy]

Thanks Bookbox - I, for one, learn something every day from your contributions! 

[smudwhisk]

it's a numbered correction to the certificate.

Not to the certificate, but to the original registration, made at the time of entering. Corrections made later are handled differently.

Just noticed that on a copy of one I have, albeit it was a scan from a relative and she's left off the annotation on the extreme left of the certificate.  There are numbers in two of the columns.

I've a local Register Office hand written copy of a death certificate where the surname was originally entered incorrectly, but was changed a few days after registration.  That includes a statement to the right with the full details of the change.